The Northern Elders Forum’s (NEF) spokeswoman, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, asserted on Tuesday that the 2015 election was the only one since 1999 that had been held without a legal challenge.
He claimed that Goodluck Jonathan, the former president, acknowledged loss while being in office and congratulated Muhammadu Buhari, who was running at the time on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Baba-Ahmed continued by saying that if elections had been transparent in terms of votes and politicians had been willing to accept defeat, Nigeria’s democracy would have evolved.
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Speaking during an interview with Arise TV news, he said, “There will always be people who will not be happy, The only election since 1999 that I know was conducted, results announced and the next day everybody moved on was in 2015.
“Few things happened perhaps behind the scenes. But basically, you have a sitting President who was defeated, he called his contestant and said Congratulations, you have won.
“He called his small circle and said, Let’s give up guys. He calls his party and says, as far as I’m anxious, we have lost an election.
“Lawyers lost a lot of money and we don’t have a lot of noise making, it was clear. If we can have elections that are that clear in terms of votes cast and politicians willing to concede it will be great.
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“Nigeria’s democracy will have grown far beyond anything else. Because we are locked inside this democratic process, getting out of it is not even an option.
“And if we cannot grow from experience and from being tested, then how does it improve.”
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