Foreign Policy quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the significance of the 2015 election results for Nigeria’s democratic evolution:
“It’s quite something to have elections and all that, but to have a country develop a strong two-party system essentially capable of maturing to the point where a challenger defeats an incumbent from the ruling party,” said J. Peter Pham, the director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank. “Now that’s a significant milestone in democratic evolution.”