While you wait for INEC (that’s Nigeria’s electoral commission) to make the final call, enjoy these Buhari supporters dancing in celebration and study up on the broad context for this election between “two perfectly unacceptable candidates.” And while we’re at it, some history: Remember, 31 years ago Nigeria’s next president jailed Fela Kuti for 10 years–Fela served 20 months. Questions we need to ask: Is Buhari a “born-again” democrat, as Wole Soyinka hopes, or still a “Beast of No Nation”? And who are the Felas of today who will fearlessly tell the truth about Buhari’s government?

The defeat of a sitting president at the ballot box will be a significant thing, whatever the candidates involved, and it’s hard not to get swept up with the optimism reverberating around social media in the last two days. Some are describing this as a profoundly transformational moment for Nigerian democracy. Maybe it will be. For now we’ll stick with Cheta Nwanze’s promise to the president-elect:

Dear General Buhari, in electing you, we've come out of the mental block inflicted by the power of incumbency. Mess up, we will vote you out

— Chxta (@Chxta) March 31, 2015

What will Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency be remembered for exactly? We suspect #GEJPose will provide the enduring image.