Last week, the United States of America once more lived up to its billing as the bastion of democracy in the world with the seamless way its presidential election was executed. Within hours of the completion of in-person voting in the evening of November 5, the winner emerged in the early morning hours of November 6, though all the votes had not been counted. But the moment he secured 270 electoral votes, Donald Trump was seen as the winner of the election. His opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, conceded defeat and congratulated him.
A few factors were apparent in the American election. The first was the fact that an outsider defeated an incumbent vice president. The opposing party also defeated the ruling party. This has only happened once in Nigeria when Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was defeated by Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) in 2015. One could see the transparency, honesty and lack of desperation that Jonathan displayed…