article_snippet: Prior to this year's polls in March, Ayo Johnson, a documentary filmmaker and analyst on African affairs, told CNN that voters would opt for whoever could make Nigeria feel safe.
article_snippet: Muhammadu Buhari has campaigned as a born-again democrat to allay fears about Muhammadu Buhari strict military regime, while stressing that Nigeria's security needs to be the next government's focus.
article_snippet: Muhammadu Buhari's campaign was fiercely anti-corruption.
article_snippet: Buhari's campaign ran under the slogan of "new broom," and Buhari's campaign supporters were often pictured holding brooms in the lead-up to the vote.
article_snippet: After Umaru Yar'Adua's death in 2010, Jonathan rose from vice president to president and Muhammadu Buhari challenged Jonathan in the 2011 elections as a candidate from the Congress for Progressive Change.
article_snippet: Muhammadu Buhari had helped found the All Nigeria People's Party a year earlier, saying the All Nigeria People's Party was "a solution to the debilitating, ethical and ideological conflicts in my former party, the ANPP.
article_snippet: Muhammadu Buhari is a Muslim from Nigeria's poorer North, while Jonathan hails from a Christian and animist South that is rich with oil.
article_snippet: Nigeria election -- what you need to know .
article_snippet: Ahead of this year's election, Jonathan and Buhari signed a nonviolence pact, the Abuja Accord, in January.
article_snippet: On March 26  Jonathan and Buhari renewed Jonathan and Buhari pledge and reiterated Jonathan and Buhari commitment to "free, fair and credible elections.
article_snippet: Jonathan and Buhari called for calm, with Buhari, who contested this year's vote as part of the All Progressives Congress, tweeting: "Fellow Nigerians, I urge you to exercise patience and vigilance as we wait for all results to be announced.
article_snippet: Elements of Buhari's biography were questioned in the run-up to the March 28 election.
article_snippet: After weeks of speculation and an ongoing legal battle over allegations that Buhari failed to complete Buhari secondary school education, a Nigerian court on March 25 cleared the way for Buhari to run in the presidential race after adjourning the case until April 22.
article_snippet: As a Sunni Muslim from the North, Buhari appears to have moved to address any concerns Buhari appointment could be detrimental to non-Muslim Nigerians -- approximately half the country's population, according to the CIA Factbook.
article_snippet: A blog post on Buhari campaign website headed "Buhari will never Islamise Nigeria" describes a campaign ceremony in January in Imo state.
article_snippet: Imo Gov. Rochas Okorocha, Imo Gov. Rochas Okorocha says, "dismissed suggestions of plans by Buhari to 'Islamize' Nigeria," telling the audience Buhari's long-time cook and driver were Christians and Buhari youngest daughter had married a Christian.
article_snippet: A day after winning the country's presidency, Buhari told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that fighting corruption and curbing violence were at the top of Buhari agenda.
article_snippet: The economy is another major issue Buhari has to contend with, as the country overtook South Africa Last year as the continent's largest economy.  