.MBuhari, YeleSowore, Northern Influence And Other Takeaways From 2019 Presidential Election By Tobi Oyetunde Prior to the election, all the candidates tried to lure the electorate with a promise of a new Nigeria once they take back Nigeria. READ MORE:
President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress came atop 72 other candidates that contested in the just concluded presidential election in Nigeria. There was much news heralding the number of candidates gunning for the presidential seat this year. It was an all-time high, a note that there are many people interested in ruling Nigeria; the genuineness of their ambition, however, remains to be seen.
The dreams were lofty, the campaign was intense and polity was sufficiently heated till it all climaxed. The party could have fielded Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir Ahmed el-Rufai; or a former presidential candidate, Nuhu Ribadu, but none of them can boast of the wide acceptance and popularity Buhari has.
In fact, Festus Keyamo , in an interview with SaharaReporters before he emerged, said if Atiku decides to contest for president, he would spend half of his campaign period defending his involvement in corruption, and that is exactly what happened. Though PDP also won some states they lost in 2015, the margin with which Buhari won the 2019 election was wider than that of 2015. In 2015, Buhari defeated former President Goodluck Jonathan with 2,571,759 votes and in 2019, he thrashed the same party with a margin of 3,928,869, That is 1,357,110 more Nigerians supporting Muhammadu Buhari.
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