BIG LESSONS NORTHERN NIGERIANS SHOULD LEARN FROM THIS 2015 ELECTION

In 2011, the present President of Nigeria won the presidential election with a very wide margin without any rigging because the whole Nigerians loved him and supported him nationwide (except in core northern states that voted for Buhari), and when INEC announced Goodluck as the winner, Buhari refused to accept defeat, instead he went on media to condemn the election, accusing PDP of rigging the election and causing his northern supporters to go on mass protest and killing of innocent Igbo, Yoruba and Niger Delta people living peacefully in the north.

Northerners burnt Igbo peoples' houses, cars, businesses and killed corpers just because their preferred northern brother candidate lost an election.

Now in 2015, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan an incumbent president lost to same northern presidential candidate he contested with in 2011, and didn't wait for INEC to officially announce the result of the election before he phoned Buhari to congratulate him and peacefully accepted defeat and cautioned his followers not to do any violent thing or cause any national riot, making a history in Nigeria since independence.

This is an incumbent president that has the right to challenge Kano, Kaduna, katsina and other northern states' results as we learnt via election observers that underaged people voted in those states, yet Goodluck refused to challenge the election result and peacefully accepted defeat, and also urged his supporters to accept the result and move on for the peaceful existence of Nigeria, something northern Nigerians will never do.

But Buhari lost clearly in 2011 and instead of him and his northern people to peacefully accept defeat and congratulate Goodluck, northerners instead decided to go their usual violent way by killing innocent youth corpers from Igbo, Yoruba, and Niger Delta, burning Igbo peoples shops, properties, cars and killing non-northerners living in the north just because a northerner lost presidential election.

But here we are today....an incumbent president from the south has lost to a northern candidate in a heated and closely-contested election, and Goodluck accepted the defeat and congratulated the northern winner, and no Igbo, or Niger Delta youth have gone violent to kill or born houses of Hausas living in the south...can northerners in their blood-thirsty brain learn from this gentleman attitude of the Niger Delta and Igbos in case of future occurences?

Will northerners learn from the Igbos and Niger Delta from this and embrace peace and stop killing innocent people in any slightest national disagreement?

This is a time for all northern Nigerians to sit down and think and ask themselves this question: WHY ARE WE SO VIOLENT and BLOOD-THIRSTY?

This is a not just a time for northerners to go on wild jubilation for winning the presidential election, it should be a time of sober reflection for Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and all northern politicians and youths on their past mistakes of going violent and killing innocent people from the south whenever there is a slight national political disagreement.

Northerners ought to learn a lot from this because the whole world is watching and God is also watching, and future will tell.

Once again, God bless president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for peacefully accepting defeat and saving many innocent souls that would have been wasted by now! May God Almighty bless Nigeria and help vindicate the just in this nation.