Few Days to Presidential Election in Nigeria or Few Days to Warfare in Nigeria ?
General elections will be held in Nigeria on 16 February 2019 to elect the President and the National Assembly. They will be the sixth quadrennial elections since the end of military rule in 1999.
Declared presidential candidates:
Incumbent Muhammadu Buhari is seeking re-election on the platform of the APC.
Atiku Abubakar, former vice president, is the PDP Presidential Candidate.
Muhammadu Buhari, incumbent president contesting under APC.
Chike Ukaegbu, founder of Startup52, is the presidential candidate of AAP.
Donald Duke, a former governor of Cross Rivers State, is the presidential candidate of the SDP.
Fela Durotoye, member of Alliance for New Nigeria.
Oby Ezekwesili, former Minister of Education and leader of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign.
Tope Fasua, founder and National Chairman of the Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party.
Rabiu Kwankwaso, former governor of Kano State.
Sule Lamido, a former governor of Jigawa State.
Ahmed Makarfi, former chairman of the People’s Democratic Party National Caretaker Committee.
Kingsley Moghalu, former Deputy Governor of the CBN and Professor of Practice at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Remi Sonaiya, member of the KOWA Party and former university lecturer.
Omoyele Sowore, human rights activist, pro-democracy campaigner and publisher of news website Sahara Reporters.
Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, former Minister of Special Duties.
Its quite a saddening one that rather than Nigerians rejoicing on the eminence of a New Leader, Fear and trembling has filled hearts and life.
The Two major Party’s intimidating the hearts of Nigerians have been PDP and APC and they twain have never been in good terms maybe they will when the world comes to its end. This has been the Fear of Nigerians. “Power is Sweet” so says a concerned Nigerian and so everyone wants to sit on the seat of power and control the affairs of over 150 million people as well control wealth worth billions.
The heart cry and prayer now by Nigerians is that this will come and then pass away peacefully just like the 2015 General Elections where the Incumbent President quietly vacated his seat for the Declared Winner. Nigerians are praying, hoping and anticipating that this will also go that same way though the odds are high, the personalities are different and the atmosphere is more tense unlike 2015.