WITH his declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the winner of weekend’s presidential election, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is fourth time lucky.

The Muhammadu Buhari administration is expected to be shaped by some Nigerians who in the recent past helped to project the president-elect into the formidable political phenomenon he turned into.

The significance of Muhammadu Buhari’s victory is underlined by the fact that this will be the first in the history of Nigeria’s electoral process when an incumbent president is defeated. It was no small feat that was achieved by some of the country’s most prominent political figures.

There was an eerie feeling at the national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the Goodluck Jonathan campaign headquarters yesterday. The party that was for the first time under pressure of defeat in federal elections and party men were at a loss.

It was a show of confusion yesterday at the Abuja International Conference Centre (ICC) when a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe accused the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega of working for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to win the 2015 presidential election.

Few would have believed that the taciturn, austere General Buhari had a soft, smiling and sweet woman at home.

Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), 58, the Vice-President-elect, until his election was a senior pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).

THIRTY years after he was ousted in a military coup, Nigerians have decided that Maj-Gen Muhammadu Buhari, the man who over threw the democratically elected government of Alhaji Shehu Aliyu Usman Shagari, would be their President. It was an emphatic decision. Is there something about the Nigerian political circle and retired generals?

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, Tuesday, assured that under his leadership, the judiciary would not subscribe to any plot to change the outcome of elections through the instrumentality of the court.

Buhari Support Organization, BSO, has alleged that the federal government has entered into an unholy alliance with some Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs with an aim of declaring the PDP winner in the states where the results are yet to be declared public.