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On Tuesday, February 14 at 19:30 GMT:
Political candidates in Nigeria are making their last appeals for assist in a normal election on February 25.
Voters in Africa’s most populous nation will select a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari, who’s nearing the top of his second and last time period.
Eighteen candidates are vying for the presidency. Three are clear front-runners – Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress; opposition Folks’s Democratic Celebration nominee Atiku Abubakar, who misplaced to Buhari within the 2019 election; and Peter Obi, a Labour Celebration candidate who’s aiming to finish the two-party system.
As polling day nears, tens of millions of individuals affected by unemployment, inflation, and gas and money shortages are inspecting candidates’ financial plans. Insecurity can also be a significant concern among the many voters, as banditry within the nation’s northwest and assaults by teams linked to ISIL (ISIS) within the northeast stay a persistent problem for the federal government and safety forces. Secessionist teams have been blamed for a string of current assaults on election fee places of work in southeastern Nigeria, including to issues over the liberty and equity of the vote.
Greater than 96 million registered voters may even select members of the Senate and Home of Representatives. Political analysts will likely be carefully watching the votes of greater than 10.5 million newly registered voters, of whom 84 p.c are aged 18-34.
On this episode of The Stream, we’ll take a look at the presidential candidates’ imaginative and prescient for Nigeria as election day nears and ask what could lie forward for the nation underneath a change of management.
On this episode of The Stream, we’re joined by:
Rinu Oduala, @SavvyRinu
Human rights advocate and group organiser
connecthubng.org
Idayat Hassan, @HassanIdayat
Director, Centre for Democracy and Growth
cddwestafrica.org
Eromo Egbejule, @EromoEgbejule
Africa Editor, Al Jazeera English
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