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This was the first time an incumbent president had lost re-election in Nigeria. The President-elect was sworn in on 29 May 2015, marking the first time since Nigeria gained independence in 1960 that a sitting government peacefully transferred power to an elected member of the opposition. Buhari flipped many states that had voted PDP in the ...
A presidential election was held in Nigeria on 16 April 2011, postponed from 9 April 2011. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] The election followed controversy as to whether a Muslim or Christian should be allowed to become president given the tradition of rotating the top office between the religions and following the death of Umaru Yar'Adua , who was a ...
February 7 - Nigeria postpones its general election for six weeks to allow its armed forces to control parts of the country currently controlled by Boko Haram. [11] February 15 - A suicide bomber kills seven and wounds 30 in the city of Damaturu. [12] February 16 - Nigeria regains the key town of Monguno from Boko Haram. [13]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s election commission announced the first results late Sunday from the country’s closely watched presidential election, The post Election results only announced ...
This national electoral calendar for 2015 lists the national/federal elections held in 2015 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included.
2015 elections in Nigeria (7 C, 2 P) 2016 elections in Nigeria (2 P) 2017 elections in Nigeria (1 P) ... Nigeria election templates by year (6 P) This page was ...
The 2023 Nigerian presidential election was held on 25 February 2023 [a] to elect the president and vice president of Nigeria. [1] Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State and nominee of the All Progressives Congress won the election with 36.61% of the vote, just under 8.8 million votes to defeat over runners-up former vice president Atiku Abubakar (Peoples Democratic Party) and former ...
2015 Burundian legislative election 29 June 2015; 2015 Burundian presidential election 21 July 2015; 2015-16 Central African general election 30 December 2015 and 14 February 2016; 2015 Comorian legislative election 25 January and 22 February 2015; 2015 Ivorian presidential election 25 October 2015; 2015 Egyptian parliamentary election 2 ...