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"A national election is a nation-wide opportunity for deciding the personnel, action programmes and the implementation strategies for a nation's approved election cycle. It is an occasion during which democratic rights are given a free reign and prospective national leaders are subjected to grassroots control. The 2015 Nigerian Presidential Election was a particularly interesting one in which the incumbent, self-assured that he had done enough to deserve re-election, was challenged by a veteran political war-horse, General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd). However, General Buhari who was seen as a serial loser, having failed thrice in a row, received the grace of the electorate. The Nigerian General Elections of 2015 is a collection of empirical studies by some of Nigeria's shining and finest stars in the Nigerian academia on some important issues related to the elections"--Back cover.