Muhammadu Buhari swept to a historic election victory in March 2015, becoming the first opposition candidate to win a Nigerian presidential poll.

A former military ruler, Mr Buhari defeated incumbent Goodluck Jonathan by three million votes.

Mr Jonathan's People's Democratic Party had dominated Nigerian politics since the end of military rule in 1999, but its supremacy was shaken by the formation of the Mr Buhari's All Progressives Congress party in 2013[https://www.fiverr.com/s/zLw2Bg]