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Buhari, ex-US President, Bush, Saraki, others congratulate Biden

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated former Vice President Joe Biden on his election as new President of the United States “at a time of uncertainty and challenges in world affairs.”
He said “your election is a significant reminder that democracy is the best form of government because it offers the people the opportunity to change their government by peaceful means.”
According to President Buhari, “the most powerful group are not the politicians, but voters who can decide the fate of candidates for elective office at the polling booth.
He noted that “the main benefit of democracy is the freedom of choice and the supremacy of the will of the people.”
According to him, “I am thrilled by the fact that you are an experienced politician who had served as Congressman for 40 years and a Vice President for eight years. This is a remarkable track record that gives us hope that you will add value to the presidency and world affairs.”
President Buhari also noted that, “with your election, we look forward to enhanced cooperation between Nigeria and the United States, especially at economic, diplomatic and political levels, including especially on the war against terrorism.
He also called on Biden “to promote greater engagement with Africa on the basis of reciprocal respects and common interests.”
Meanwhile, former US President, George W. Bush has congratulated president-elect, Joe Biden on his victory at the poll, saying the election was fundamentally fair.
Bush, a Republican, in a statement said he just talked with Biden and extended his warm congratulations and thanked him for the patriotic message he delivered last night.
“I also called Kamala Harris to congratulate her on her historic election to the vice presidency. Though we have political differences, I know Joe Biden to be a good man, who has won his opportunity to lead and unify our country.
According to Bush, the fact that so many American citizens participated in this election is a positive sign of the health of the nation’s democracy and a reminder to the world of its strength.
Also, the immediate past Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki reacting to the election through his official twitter handle said:
“I congratulate the former Vice-President of the United States, Joe Biden, on his historic election as the next President of the United States. I also congratulate Senator Kamala Harris, who will be the first female Vice-President of the world’s most vibrant democracy.
Street parties erupt in U.S. cities as Biden declared winner
American cities Saturday erupted in jubilation as Joe Biden was officially projected to win the U.S. presidential elections.
Major cable networks declared that Joe Biden had achieved the required Electoral College votes to make him the President-elect of the United States.
Street parties sprang up late morning in cities like New York, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., continuing throughout the day and late into the night. The celebrations culminated in Wilmington, Delaware, where Mr Biden and the Vice-president elect Kamala Harris made their victory speech. Americans got a first glimpse of the newly nominated President-elect and his deputy for the first time since the Saturday morning declarations.
The spontaneous celebrations came after a-week-long wait on election results since the Tuesday general elections that brought an end to Donald Trump’s re-election bid. Although the president has declined to concede the elections, vowing to resume multiple litigations from Monday, the mood in the country has been mostly celebratory, with people welcoming the change that Biden appears to promise.
In the U.S. capital city, Washington, D.C., thousands of masked celebrants besieged the newly erected walls outside the White House. On Monday, the White House put up make-shift walls as the country prepared for possible violence as the country took the polls this Tuesday. The expectations of violence did not come to fruition. Rather, thousands of people gathered to celebrate the outcome of the elections in the capital city that voted overwhelmingly for the former vice-president, with what currently stands as 93:5 percentage ratio, favouring the President-elect.
The crowds gathered on 16th Street, taking up the entire area now known as Black Lives Matter Plaza, downtown D.C. Twice, since 2016, have crowds close to this size taken up this amount of space near the White House. The first was in the immediate period following President Trump’s inauguration when women staged a march to protest his election. The second was part of the nation-wide protests over the wrongful death of George Floyd this summer. As at midnight on Saturday, the street parties in D.C. celebrating Mr. Biden’s election showed no signs of ending.
In New York, thousands of celebrants took over the popular Times Square, midtown Manhattan, blocking off streets in America’s most populated city. As with other cities, car horns, shouts, and music celebrated the end to Mr Trump’s tumultuous presidency. Crowds danced and popped Champaign even as most cities continue to receive new ballots and the incumbent president, alleging electoral fraud without evidence, vows to fight Biden’s victory in the courts. In New York, no one spoke of President Trump. The crowds partied till nightfall and stayed on to listen to Biden’s victory speech at about 8.30pm, Eastern Time Saturday.
In Philadelphia, street parties began since Friday as the large percentage of mailed-in ballots began to edge Biden closer to President Trump who had till then taken the lead as voting results were announced in Pennsylvania. At the end of in-person voting on Tuesday, President Trump was ahead of the former vice-president with over 650,000 votes. But that margin began to narrow over the next few days as mailed-in ballots were slowly added to the tally. By Friday morning, Biden overtook the president by 5,500 votes, a margin that only kept expanding until Saturday when the election was called in favour of the former vice-president. Pennsylvania has turned out to be the most significant swing state in the 2020 Elections, even as more ballots trickle in.

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