SOME FACTS ABOUT GMB: NIGERIA'S PRESIDENT-ELECT YOU MAY NOT KNOW

17 Amazing Things Nigerians Should Know About President-elect

By getting more than 15 million votes to Goodluck Jonathan’s almost 13 million votes, General Muhammadu Buhari becomes the first man to overthrow (by the poll) a sitting Nigerian president. Here are about 17 things you may not know about ‘Peoples General’.

All Progressives Congress presidential candidate becomes the first man in Nigeria’s 16-year fourth republic to overthrow a PDP presidential aspirant. 

For the first time, Buhari is no longer a leader of northern Nigeria. Statistics of this election show former military ruler now has the national approval he sorely lacked.

This is the first time in four attempts that Buhari has won more than one state in the north-central zone. Before now, he never won a state in the southwest.

                           General Muhammadu Buhari: Nigeria's President-Elect

The Authentic 2015 Election Results As Released By Independent National Electoral Commission-INEC

Elections 2015

The Presidential and National Assembly elections in Nigeria were held on March 28, 2015 (Saturday). Total votes of 36 states (Ondo, Osun, Kogi, Enugu, Ogun, Ekiti, Oyo, Nassarawa, Kano, Jigawa, Katsina, Kwara, Kaduna, Anambra, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Plateau, Ebonyi, Niger, Lagos, Bayelsa, Gombe, Cross River, Rivers, Adamawa, Zamfara, Kebbi, Benue, Bauchi, Yobe, Edo, Taraba, Sokoto, Delta, Borno) and FCT Abuja, according to the INEC were declared as follows:

• Goodluck Jonathan / Namadi Sambo of PDP (43.67%, 12,853,162)
• Muhammadu Buhari / Yemi Osinbajo of APC (52.41%, 15,424,921)
• Ambrose Albert / Haruna Shaba (0.03%, 7,435)
• Oluremi Sonaiya / Saidu Bobboi (0.04%, 13,076)
• Ganiyu Galadima / Ojengbede Farida (0.14%, 40,311)
• Chekwas Okorie / Bello Umar (0.06%, 18,220)
• Tunde Anifowoshe-Kelani / Paul Ishaka Ofomile (0.08%, 22,125)
• Rafiu Salau / Clinton Cliff Akuchie (0.10%, 30,673)
• Godson Okoye / Haruna Adamu (0.03%, 9,208)
• Martin Onovo / Ibrahim Mohammed (0.08%, 24,455)
• Mani Ibrahim Ahmad / Obianuju Murphy-Uzohue (0.10%, 29,666)
• Ayeni Adebayo / Anthony Ologbosere (0.18%, 53,537)
• Sam Eke / Hassana Hassan (0.12%, 36,300)
• Allagoa Chinedu / Arabamhen Mary (0.08%, 24,475)
• Invalid votes (2.87%, 844,519 Person)

The Five (5) Notable African Incumbent Leaders/Presidents Who Concede Defeat To Opposition

These Are The African Presidents Who Are As Of Today Otherwise Known As 'Heroes Of Democracy': GEJ Of Nigeria Just Made The List!

The singular act of President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria after the presidential elections held on Saturday the 28th of March 2015, has elevated him to the status of a statesman and Hero of Democracy, not only in Nigeria, but Africa where such action is a rarity.

According to a research conducted via Wikipedia and  Naij.com, the following African leaders numbering five, have been discovered as the renowned Hero of Democracy since 1967.

1. ADEN ABDULLAH OSMAN DAAR (SOMALIA): Aden Daar is a Somali politician popularly known as Aden Adde. He was the first President of Somalia, serving from July 1, 1960 to June 10, 1967. Daar joined the incipient Somali Youth League (SYL) political party in 1944, a nationalist organization that campaigned for an independent Somalia. Quickly rising through the ranks, he became the local secretary of the SYL’s Beledweyne branch in 1946.

A decade later, he became Chairman of the National Legislative Assembly, and would eventually lead the SYL itself two years afterwards. By the time Somalia gained its independence in 1960, Daar had attained widespread prominence as a nationalist figure.

ADEN ABDULLAH OSMAN DAAR

In short order, he was elected the country’s first President, a position he would assume from 1960 to 1967. Fellow SYL member Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf would serve as the first President of the Somali National Assembly on 1 July 1960.