Nigerians are so used to the idea that an incumbent should win presidential elections that President Goodluck Jonathan’s failure to beat Gen Muhammadu Buhari needs some explaining. Here are five reasons why the opposition won
Read it all and see what you make of the list.
Listening to him in the last year or so, it was pretty clear President Goodluck Jonathan had no grip on reality either in relation to the Boko Haram insurgency and how to deal with it or in relation to the abducted children. Whether this was due to the information he was being fed by his advisers, who knows, but it drove his American military advisers up the wall. He would not be the first leader to have ended up surrounded by an inner court who told him what he wanted to hear. While there has been a reported pushback by the government in the North, blame may have attached to him for allowing so much to be taken in the first place and for so many lives lost in that process.
Perhaps people took the line in voting of ‘how much worse could it get than the current situation?’