AHEAD of the May 29, 2015 inauguration of President-elect,
Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), his supporters
have taken over the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
Now, Buhari’s change slogan, Sai Baba, Sai Buhari, has been
adopted as a way of greeting by residents.
Indeed, the slogan had been popular among Okada riders,
market men and women and even in corporate offices even
before the March 28 presidential polls.
The slogan went virile on the very day the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the72-year-
old former military dictator as the winner of the election.
President Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat to former
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, paving the way for an
unprecedented peaceful transfer of power in Africa’s most
populous nation.
Being the first time in the country’s history that an
opposition party has democratically taken control of the
country from the ruling party, Abuja was agog with
celebrations. Cars honked and people waved brooms in the
air, a symbol of Buhari’s campaign promise to sweep out the
nation’s endemic corruption.
INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega, while declaring Buhari
the winner, said Buhari got 15,424,921 votes to Jonathan’s
12,853,162, eliciting spontaneous celebrations in Abuja
including the satellite towns where Buhari is revered. Young
men on motor scooters performed wheelies as hundreds of
youths chanted, “Sai Baba, Sai Buhari” and cars honked their
horns in support.
An Okada rider, Suleima Garba, said Buhari is the people’s
choice Giving an interpretation of Sai Baba, Sai Buhari,
Garba said it means, ‘Only Baba, Only Buhari.’
On why they referred to him as Baba, the rider said Buhari
could pass for most Nigerians’ father or grandfather and
since it was argued in some quarters that Buhari was too old
to contest, then Nigerians should accept him as Baba
(father).
In Garki Market, an Akwa Ibom woman by name Enem
Udoh, a vegetable seller who was obviously elated, said ‘’we
yearned for change not because President Jonathan is not
good but we just desire to see the next level that change will
take us to.
The austere and strict-looking Buhari has described himself
as a belated convert to democracy, promising to stamp out
corruption and the Boko Haram insurgency in the North.
The country’s over 170 million people are divided by a slight
margin between Christians and Muslims but in the
Presidential election, Buhari for the first time won states in
the South-West and even took one-third of votes in the
South-East, an unprecedented development that many say
was a reflection of his rising acceptance among the
electorate.
Buhari’s fourth bid to become president was boosted by the
formation of a coalition of major opposition parties two
years ago. The APC’s choice of Buhari as candidate
presented the opposition with the first real opportunity in
the history of Nigeria to oust an incumbent president.

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