It is the ninth peaceful transfer of power and perhaps the most intriguing in Nigeria's 55 year history as an independent nation. Like the transitions of 1960,1965,1979,1983,1999,2003,2007 and 2011, the processes leading to 2015 general elections were typically Nigerian in every sense, as all the peculiar oddities inherent in the nation's electoral process strikingly manifested.
However, the exercise which would culminate in the transfer of the reins of government on May 29, 2015, could not be written off to have only reproduced the fault lines in Nigeria's political culture, as few developments signposted an uncommon readiness to get the country back on track. These election- related occurrences from November 16, 2014 when electioneering activities commenced till date, came at a huge cost to the citizenry as well.
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