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Who Will Win Next Year’s Presidential Election In Nigeria?

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  Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (APC presidential candidate) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (PDP presidential Candidate) Mr. Peter Obi (Labour Party presidential candidate). The whole country is agog with the noise of the next year’s 2023 general elections. There are so many candidates and many political parties, yet only one political party and one candidate will eventually be declared winner after the general elections. To narrow the list down, let’s take a look the three leading political parties. The leading political parties are: ·          All Progressives People’s Congress (APC) ·          People Democratic Party (PDP) ·          Labour Party (LP). APC is unarguably the strongest party in Nigeria right now. Apart from the fact that it is the ruling party in the country presently, it is the party with the largest membership in the country. It has more governo...

Breaking News! Reasons Why We Postponed Saturday Election - INEC

INEC has opened up why it postponed the last Saturday Presidential and National Assembly election in the early ours of Saturday in a close door meeting held in Abuja, the FCT of Nigeria. After a marathon meeting which lasted about eight hours, the Independent National Commission (INEC) in the early morning of Saturday announced postponement of the general elections. Consequently, the Presidential and National Assembly elections will come up next Saturday, 23rd February 2019 while the governorship and state Assembly election will now hold on 9th March, 2019. INEC had earlier scheduled today 16th February 2019 for the presidential and National Assembly, while the State elections were scheduled for 2nd March, 2019 before this latest decision by the commission. INEC hinged the postponement of the elections on logistic challenges. INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and the National Commissioners met with some observer for hours before reaching the decision. The announcement ca...