Abstract
NIGERIA'S THIRD GENERAL ELECTIONS SINCE THE END OF MILITARY RULE in 1999 took place on two consecutive Saturdays in April 2007. State polls to elect members of Nigeria's 36 state Houses of Assembly and their Governors were held on 14 April. National elections for the Senate, House of Representatives, and President were held on the following weekend, 21 April. With President Olusegun Obasanjo stepping down after two terms, the elections were widely anticipated as a milestone, marking the first transfer from one civilian head of state to another since independence. At the time of writing it seems certain that the next President of Nigeria, Umaru Yar'Adua, of Obasanjo's ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP), will indeed take over in a peaceful transition on 29 May (Umaru Yar'Adua took power on 29 May). But to celebrate the peaceful and civilian nature of the transition is to close one's eyes to the brutal, corrupt and undemocratic way in which Yar'Adua has come to power.
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