The
All Progressives Congress (APC) is a political party in
Nigeria, formed on 6 February 2013 in anticipation of the
2015 elections. APC candidate
Muhammadu Buhari won the presidential election by almost 2.6 million votes. Incumbent President
Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat on 31 March. This was the first time in Nigeria's political history that an opposition political party unseated a governing party in a general election and one in which power will transfer peacefully from one political party to another. In addition, the APC won the majority of seats in the
Senate and the
House of Representatives in the
2015 elections, though it fell shy of winning a
super-majority to override the ability of the opposition
People's Democratic Party to block legislation.