Buhari took office following a decisive victory over incumbent Peoples Democratic Party president Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election.

Four years later, in the 2019 presidential election, he defeated PDP candidate former vice president Atiku Abubakar to win re-election.

[2] According to the fundamental document, in order to qualify for election to the office of the president, a person must be "educated up to at least School certificate level or its equivalent".

Buhari failed to submit any such evidence, claiming that he lost the original copies of his diplomas when his house was raided following his overthrow from power in 1985.

He "urged Nigerians to put aside religion, politics and all other divisions to crush the insurgency, which he said was fanned by mindless bigots masquerading as Muslims".

[6] After this announcement, Buhari's approval ratings skyrocketed, largely due to Jonathan's apparent inability to fight Boko Haram.

[13] On 27 May 2015, Premium Times reported that the ruling People's Democratic Party had deliberately received the bulk of the 5,000 invitation cards as there were plans to allegedly boo the outgoing president.

[15] Suleiman Hashimu walked 750 km from Lagos to Abuja, fulfilling a vow that he had made if General Buhari won the presidency.

Progress has been made in recent weeks by our security forces but victory can not be achieved by basing the command and control Centre in Abuja.

But we can not claim to have defeated Boko Haram without rescuing the Chibok girls and all other innocent persons held hostage by insurgents.

It is a national shame that an economy of 180 million [people] generates only 4,000 MW, and distributes even less.In August 2015, Buhari started the implementation of the TSA.

Running on a manifesto promising to curb and adequately prosecute corruption, believing it hinders economic growth and development.

[21] Apart from constituting the Professor Itse Sagay-led Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption mandated to advise his administration on the prosecution of the anti-graft war and the implementation of required reforms in the nation's criminal justice system, Buhari also sent to the Senate the Money Laundering [Prevention and Prohibition] Bill 2016 and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill 2016 in order to lend credence to his anti-graft crusade.

He said in an interview with TVC News in Morocco where he attended an African summit on climate change and food security, that it is based on his failure to pass his screening exercise which they are not personalize or politicize.

Nobody can purchase me, I cannot compromise what I am doing.”[27] An Abuja Division of the Federal High Court affirmed the decision of the Senate to reject Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.