Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has today emerged the winner of the 2015 Nigerian Presidential Elections, defeating incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This is the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent President was defeated in a general election by the leader of the opposition.
INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega, announced that Buhari of the APC won with 15.4 million votes to defeat all other candidates, with Jonathan of the ruling PDP polling a total of 12,853,162 votes to come second.
This is Muhammadu Buhari’s fourth attempt at contesting for the number one position in Nigeria having failed in 2003, 2007 and 2011. He was Head of State of Nigeria from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d'état.
He hails from Daura in Katsina State. He was born on 17 December 1942, in to Adamu and Zulaihat Buhari. He is the twenty-third child of his father, who died when he was about four years old. Buhari attended primary school in Daura and Mai'adua before proceeding to Katsina Model School in 1953, and Katsina Provincial Secondary School (now Government College Katsina) from 1956 to 1961. He then joined the Nigerian Military Training School in Kaduna, where his military career began.
His party the All Progressives Congress has promised Nigerians change and on Buhari's shoulder is the herculean task of fulfilling that promise. We wish him all the best.
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