{"id":49127,"date":"2015-04-01T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T14:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_peaceful_transition_after_nigerian_election_would_be_relative_rarity_in\/"},"modified":"2015-04-01T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T14:40:18","slug":"wsj_peaceful_transition_after_nigerian_election_would_be_relative_rarity_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49127","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Peaceful Transition After Nigerian Election Would Be Relative Rarity in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The election of the erstwhile strongman Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria\u2019s new president has set in motion what has been rare for the continent and even rarer for his country: a peaceful transition of power from a ruling party to the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old former general campaigned against the political establishment, courted the youth vote, and won an election broadly considered free and fair.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Buhari\u2019s upset of an incumbent Nigerian president, said Philippe de Pontet, the Washington-based Africa head for Eurasia Group, a research and risk-consulting firm, is \u201carguably the most consequential political event in Africa in the last decade.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/peaceful-transition-would-be-relative-rarity-in-africa-1427847788?mod=e2tw\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election of the erstwhile strongman Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria\u2019s new president has set in motion what has been rare for the continent and even rarer for his country: a peaceful transition of power from a ruling party to the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49127\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,202,327,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-nigeria","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}