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Election Winner Congratulates Outgoing President For Peacefully Relinquishing Power

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      Election winner congratulates outgoing president for peacefully relinquishing power and says move shows world that Nigeria has embraced democracy.  Buhari, a 72-year-old Muslim, first tasted power a generation ago as a military dictator, only to be ousted after 20 months and jailed. The former army general has campaigned as a born-again democrat intent on cleaning up the corrupt politics of the continent’s largest economy and most populous nation. In 2015, he contested in the colours of the party known as the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the incubent President Goodluck Jonathan a perfect gentleman who represented the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This election has been adjudged the tightest and the mother of all elections in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. Both men are from different regions of Nigeria and of different background and ideologies. Jonathan is a Christian from the South South Region while Buhari is from the core North of N