Bola Tinubu, the winner of Nigeria's presidential poll on February 25, has not yet received a call from world leaders, including US President Joe Biden.
This happens as it is generally believed that the election was rigged in favor of the All Progressives Congress, which is currently in power.
Unlike Buhari, who won the election in April 2015, Tinubu has not yet been formally congratulated by global leaders, including the US President, despite being declared the winner weeks earlier.
The then-US President Barack Obama, the then-French President François Hollande, the then-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, and other officials congratulated Buhari on his election on April 1, 2015.
Hollande had also expressed gratitude for the Nigerian people's steadfastness and the Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC) expertise in the polling process.
In his statement issued then on Tuesday, March 31, 2015, Ban Ki-Moon congratulated Buhari on his hard won victory and praised INEC for organizing the elections in a professional and credible “manner under challenging circumstances.”
However, despite numerous domestic demands to reevaluate the procedure and court cases, prominent world leaders have remained silent regarding Tinubu for days that turned into weeks.
Days after the INEC announcement, the US government sent Tinubu a message of congratulations, but some civic organizations criticized the US government for "hurriedly congratulating Tinubu despite his fraudulent win because the US plans to use him as a stooge for the next four years."
The February 25 presidential election revealed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had not taken new lessons to heart, according to a March 8 analysis by Chatham House, a London-based independent policy organization.
The London-based institute had emphasized that the electoral umpire had broken its own rules, which it had issued before the election, particularly the one relating to the uploading of results in real-time.
The INEC’s performance and controversies over these results mean that the electoral reforms and lessons declared to have been learned were not fully applied and, as an electoral body, it was significantly less prepared than it claimed.
“The logistical failures of INEC and widespread delayed opening of polling units meant that voters who showed up at the polls early were frustrated and many voters and INEC staff were not able to locate their polling units for several hours,” Chatham House had stated.
