Nigeria: Doomsday Prophecies Fail!

Now that the presidential election has ended on a remarkably peaceful note, it is time to tell the hordes of Doomsday prophets who had predicted an implosion in the country: You were dead wrong!
Feelers from across the country show that rather than boil, Nigeria has witnessed remarkable peace — the camps of both the winner and the loser have taken the result with grace, equanimity and respect for the wishes of the electorate.
The jubilation by the winning camp has been measured, while the losers have been gracious in defeat.
Nigerians have returned to their normal businesses in a peaceful atmosphere.
Recall that a United States of America think tank had in 2005 predicted that Nigeria would break up in 2015.
Since that prediction, acolytes of the think tank within and outside Nigeria had latched onto it to further heighten apprehension across the length and breadth of Nigeria.
Even the US which officially distanced itself from the think tank’s prediction worsened the situation by taking steps which many Nigerians saw as being in tandem with the doomsday scenario about Nigeria. This became obvious in the steps that the US took in the run up to the election and even after the poll held. The climax of such steps came few days to the election when the US dispatched hundreds of marines to Ghana for possible evacuation of American citizens should violence break out in Nigeria after the presidential poll.
But with the jubilation across most parts of Nigeria and the peace pervading the country after the announcement of the poll result, the doomsday prophets have once again been put to shame.
This, of course, is traceable to the resilience of Nigerians and particularly the support of the Almighty, who at every turn, has proven that He has not yet finished with Nigeria as a united, indivisible and indissoluble entity