THE 2015 general elections might be over but the indelible footprints it left on our political shore will remain trans-generational in the annals of history. Historians will continue to make reference to 2015 as a year that redefined Nigeria’s political voyage, when taken into considerations landmark successes recorded during the course of this noble exercise and the entrenchment of democratic principles in the polity, which ultimately made Nigeria the true winner of these elections.

Understandably, passions were inflamed following the last month’s anti-immigrant attacks that left seven people dead and many others displaced and injured in South Africa.

As Governor Raji Fashola takes his exit from power it is necessary to ask him why he was not able to allow the state electoral commission to conduct elections into the state local governments before leaving office . In January, the governor swore in 57 Executive Secretaries for 20 LGs and 37 LCDAs instead of holding elections in the LG s and LCDAs whose tenure expired in December 2014

It is weeks to the swearing-in the president- elect, Muhammadu Buhari. I reflect on how things came the way it is today for the retired general and conclude on integrity. “No real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office”, unless upon honest and strong moral principles.

Today the level of confidence in Nigeria is remarkably high, and president-elect General Muhammadu Buhari has been described by many as embodying ‘the promise of change’. Hardly surprising given that one of the reasons he became president-elect is because of his apparent zero-tolerance approach to corruption.