NIGERIA'S 2015 ELECTIONS AND THE CHANGE REVOLUTION

Abstract

This paper investigates Nigeria's 2015 Elections and the change revolution. The deprivation
theory was used as theoretical underpinning.The paper takes a historic excursion into the
elections, party politics and the military intervention in Nigeria's democracy from the preindependence
era to the contemporary President Jonathan era. The paper revealed that since
1959, the common perception has been that Nigeria had not had a civilian President who
actually chose to become one. It further revealed that in the entire history of democracy in
Nigeria, only General Muhammadu Buhari contested for the office of the President on his own
for twelve (12) years and finally won in the March 28, 2015 polls. It concludes that the 2015
presidential elections had shown that politics in Nigeria can be changed from one political
party to another at any given election.