In it’s over two hundred years of democracy, the United States of America presidential election 2020 was the most dramatic, unique and historical.
For the first time ever, it was an election held during a Covid-19 pandemic that makes it unique.
It was an election that produced the first female Asian American Vice President in the person of Kamala Harris who was a former state of California Attorney General.
The 2020 us presidential election was the first in history of democracy in which an incumbent president declared himself winner even though votes were yet to be finally counted and result declared which makes the election the most dramatic.
It is now clear and known to the whole world, that whatever the intrigues and the winds of protests, outrage and allegations of illegal votes in several states and irregularities, the Democratic Party, Candidates, Mr. Joe Biden has been projected to win the race.
He won the election with a majority votes and two hundred and seventy-nine of the Electoral College Votes.
A feat that surpassed the American constitution requirement of two hundred and seventy electoral college votes to emerge winner.
The election was decided by over one hundred million American electorate who cast their ballot through the mailing system due to the strict adherence to covid19 pandemic safety protocol of physical distancing.
Already, leaders of countries all over the world have been sending their congratulatory messages to Mr. Joe Biden and his running mate, Mrs. Kamala Harris.
However, since America assumed the position of world leader and policeman of the global community at the end of the second world war in 1945.
2020 presidential election raises a lot of questions which are instructive for the rest of the world, particularly Africa and most importantly, Nigeria.
The America’s model of democracy’s beliefs, tenets and practice were called to questions.
Never in the history of America has the unity of the country been so threatened and Americans divided along so many cultural lines than what the world is seeing right now.
The lessons here is that, there may be technology, military and nuclear capability, what happened in 2020 us presidential election indicates that the players in political field of advanced democracies are as human as those in the so called third world, meaning that politicians are the same everywhere.
The 2020 U.S Presidential election produced Nine Nigerians to different positions in some states.
This must force a rethink and compel political leaders in the country to abandon the archaic and retrogressive definition of citizenship and statehood, identity or tribal politics has become endemic in Nigerian politics and this has done huge damage in the last sixty years of independence.
Our political leaders must know that development can only come with a functional and transparent electoral process starting with party primaries to general elections.
The democratic and political space must be de-monetized to make youths participate and contest in electoral process and this must start early enough.
As the world looks forward, as it were to the inauguration of Mr. Joe Biden, a seventy-seven year old American democratic party candidates as the 46th American president alongside his running mate Mrs. Kamala Harris on the 20th of January 2021, it is hoped that in four years time, the world will be a much more better place through their administration.
Tayo Sanni
