article_snippet.sent: (CNN)The victory of a 72-year-old former general, Muhammadu Buhari, in the Nigerian elections represents a moment of maturity in West African politics.
article_snippet.sent: And the fact that the winner ran on an anti-corruption platform suggests that ordinary Nigerians have finally had enough of the venality of ordinary Nigerians elites.
article_snippet.sent: Nigeria is not a natural, comfortable nation state; Nigeria's composed of many ethnicities and two major competing religions.
article_snippet.sent: The south is dominated by Christians like Jonathan, the north by Muslims like Buhari.
article_snippet.sent: And the government might have benefited from the Boko Haram's terrorist emergency continuing in Muslim centers, for the Muslims were far more likely to vote for Buhari.
article_snippet.sent: For Buhari to win, Buhari had to draw large numbers of votes in Christian areas -- and there, again, a Western prejudice is challenged.
article_snippet.sent: The victory of a Muslim candidate in Nigeria does not represent the victory of Islamism, as we have so often been told by those skeptical of the ability of the Muslim world to govern the Muslim world.
article_snippet.sent: Now Buhari has won the presidency promising to tackle those intertwined problems of Boko Haram and corruption.
article_snippet.sent: But many of whom cannot deny that Buhari has won this historic victory because Buhari has touched a chord with a people exhausted by years of misrule.
highlights_snippet.sent: Muhammadu Buhar won Nigeria vote on campaign against corruption.