The 2023 presidential election is just about four months away and candidates of 18 political parties have been working round the clock to woo the electorate
Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been involved in the nation’s democratic process since the ill-fated Third Republic when he represented Lagos West Senatorial District in the Senate of the Federal Republic. the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress , was also a two term Governor of Lagos State and APC National Leader. During his reign as the governor of the nation’s commercial capital, Tinubu tackled key challenges affecting the state at the time.
Kwankwaso recently registered New Nigerian Peoples Party , a platform which he hopes to use to actualize his ambition. At every opportunity, Kwankwaso has harped on education as one of his core mandates if elected president. “We believe that education is the cornerstone of any development and nation-building. Education shall be a cardinal point of our administration,” he had said at one of such fora.
He has been at loggerheads with the authorities in the past few years. On 3 August 2019 Sowore was arrested by the Nigerian State Security Service for alleged treason after calling for a protest tagged RevolutionNow. He was arrested again and beaten during a protest in Abuja on 1 January 2021. It doesn’t appear that his message is well received by the political establishment across the country.
Other candidates include Major Hamza Al-Mustapha , Kachukwu Dumebi , Yusuf Yabagi Sani , Umeadi Chukwudi among others.
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