The Nigerian General Elections of 2015

A national election is a nation-wide opportunity for deciding the personnel, action programmes and the implementation strategies for a nation's approved election cycle. It is an occasion during which democratic rights are given a free reign and prospective national leaders are subjected to grassroots control. 

The 2015 Nigerian Presidential Election was a particularly interesting one in which the incumbent, self-assured that he had done enough to deserve re-election, was challenged by a veteran political war-horse, General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd). However, General Buhari who was seen as a serial loser, having failed thrice in a row, received the grace of the electorate. 

The Nigerian General Elections of 2015 is a collection of empirical studies by some of Nigeria's shining and finest stars in the Nigerian academia on some important issues related to the elections.

Editors:

JOHN A. A. AYOADE, until 2008 when he retired from active University Service, was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He was one-time Chair of the Department and one-time Dean of the Faculty of The Social Sciences of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

ADEOYE A. AKINSANYA, until recently, was a Professor of Political Science at the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, via Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria. He was Chair of the Department of Political Science at the Universities of Ilorin and Calabar as well as the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State.

OLATUNDE JB OJO, until 2009 when he retired from active University Service, was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Port-Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

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