FOUR YEARS AFTER: Buhari in the eyes of critics, supporters

ON May 29, 2015, history was made in Nigeria when an opposition political party took over the seat of power from an incumbent president.Before the tsunami that swept away the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP under the captaincy of President Goodluck Jonathan, many political analysts had predicted a landslide victory for the PDP. The argument was that it was unthinkable that the incumbent government with the control of security apparatus and other resources could lose to the opposition. For some, even if the number of votes for the opposition was ‘miraculously’ higher than that of the incumbent, the power of brute force could be applied to upturn the situation.

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