Nigeria s Buhari To Run In 2019 Elections

According to the timetable and schedule of activities released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) earlier this year, the Presidential and National Assembly elections are expected to hold on February 16, 2019. Nigeria's political parties must select their candidates for the election between Aug. Addressing the mammoth crowd at the venue, Fabiyi, said he has no doubt in his mind that Atiku remains the best choice for the PDP and the good people of Nigeria who are yearning for the real change.

Going through these sketches again, we may make to the following provisional conclusion: Political party mutations in Nigeria's ruling classes—from 1999 to 2018—have essentially been quantitative movements of association and dissociation, combination and separation.

Such was the case when the former president, General Olusegun Obasanjo declared in 2007 that the April elections would be a do-or-die affair for the country and his ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Violent clashes could potentially ensue if the security situation is not addressed before the elections.

Kwankwaso, a presidential aspirant under the auspice of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, visited Ayokunle at his office in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. He said the credibility doubt against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deliver high expectations when compare to the relative improved performance in 2015 general elections might spark needless violence by the electorate.

It is only after these are situated in apt context that the quadruplet of capacity, unity, security and corruption waiting to navigate the 2019 election would sit well with discerning minds. Even the 2015 general election had to be postponed due to security concerns.

They said this will determine if he retains his seat in the midst of rising opposition not only from other political parties but a cross section of Nigerians. Former President Obasanjo has continued to list the failures of President Buhari and the reasons why he should forego 2019.

The 75-year-old said he would seek his party's presidential ticket to contest elections in February 2019 during a closed door meeting of the national executive committee of his All Progressives Congress (APC) party. Thus, for the 2019 elections to effectively assume shape, capacity is an issue that none of the intending candidates can run away from.

Daily Trust recalls that while defending the 2018 budget estimates of the electoral body in January, INEC chairman Professor Mahmud Yakubu had said that the exact cost of the 2019 general elections, which would hold across the 119,999 polling units in the country, could only be arrived at after the passage of electoral act by the National Assembly.

What a needless and useless change Nigerians made in 2015. Campaigning in the Nigeria elections in 2015. I could have become Nigeria's president in 2003 when virtually, all the state governors then, rallied support for me to contest which I declined. Mr Buhari's spokesman said the president accepted the criticism in good faith, but it should be noted that significant progress had been made under his rule in tackling Nigeria's problems.

Omale said: PDP Senators, House of Representatives members and governors are going to gang up against Alhaji Atiku Abubakar." The prophet predicted that a new political party that would redefine Nigeria's political map, would be formed between March and April this year, adding that, President Buhari's party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) would have big challenges managing a backlash that would come from its National Convention.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has decided to run for re-election in February, ending months of speculation about whether the former military ruler would seek a second term. The 2019 presidential elections in Nigeria will be the country's sixth since 1999, when it shifted to democracy after a long period of military rule.