After all the apprehension, permutations and predictions by local and foreign actors, the Presidential election in Nigeria has come and gone with a winner, and many losers.
President Muhammadu Buhari who has been re-elected for another term of four years, in a very uncommon show of grace, called on his supporters be graceful to the losing side and that anything less at this period when the nation is bitterly divided and fractured will only heat up the polity, and allow wounds of defeat to linger and possibly fester.
Post-election, it is healing time, and focus should be on nation building. President Buhari must lead the charge by trying to unite through both words and action. He should start by using the remaining three months of his first term to bind the country together. The foreboding sense of neglect by a section of the country should be assuaged with assurances that the second term will be more equitable, inclusive, and sensitive to the needs of the people….
