Failure of opposition parties to work together towards unsettling the ruling All Progressives Congress may have aided the victory of the party’s candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the last presidential election, writes LEKE BAIYEWU
Failure of opposition parties to work together towards unsettling the ruling All Progressives Congress may have aided the victory of the party’s candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the last presidential election, writesIndependent National Electoral Commission has declared candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, winner of the presidential election held on February 25, 2023.
However, in the 2023 election, the 18 registered political parties fielded 18 presidential candidates that contested the election and shared the 25.3 million valid votes recorded. Meanwhile, only the 25.3 million voted out of the 93.5 million eligible voters registered by INEC to participate in the exercise.
Close watchers of the events that played out on the political scene especially concerning the opposition parties and individuals believe they that approached the election not as a third force but as ‘third forces’. The other three top contenders, PDP, LP and NNPP got 6,984,520, 6,101,533 and 1,496,687, respectively. These parties, if they had formed an alliance, would have collectively polled 14,582,740 votes.
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