AFP: Valet i Nigeria handlar om att locka väljare i norr
Det mesta tyder på att det nigerianska presidentvalet i februari än en gång kommer att avgöras av vem som lyckas locka väljare i det till stor del muslimska norr. Det skriver AFP.
Sittande president Muhammadu Buhari kan inte bli omvald eftersom han redan suttit två mandatperioder. Han kom till makten tack vare ett stort stöd från landets norra del, där valdeltagandet brukar bli högt. Men nu är det svårt att förutse vem som kommer bli hans efterträdare.
– Norra delen av landet tenderar att rösta enligt samma linje, säger Hakeem Baba-Ahmed på inflytelserika organisationen Northern Elders Forum.
Han tillägger att invånarna i norra delen av Nigeria är öppna för att övertygas av alla kandidater som visar att de ”bryr sig om deras problem”.
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2023 Nigerian presidential election
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The 2023 Nigerian presidential election will be held on 25 February 2023 to elect the president and vice president of Nigeria. Incumbent APC President Muhammadu Buhari is term-limited and cannot seek re-election for a third term.
Other federal elections, including elections to the House of Representatives and the Senate, will also be held on the same date while state elections will be held two weeks afterward on 11 March. The winners of the election will be inaugurated on 29 May 2023, the former date of Democracy Day.
Party primaries were scheduled for between 4 April and 9 June 2022 with the Peoples Democratic Party nominating former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on 28 May while the All Progressives Congress nominated former Governor of Lagos State Bola Tinubu on 8 June. For the less politically represented Labour Party and New Nigeria Peoples Party, former Governor of Anambra State Peter Obi was nominated on 30 May and former Governor of Kano State Rabiu Kwankwaso was nominated on 8 June, respectively. In the weeks after the primaries, vice presidential running mates were announced with Abubakar choosing Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on 16 June while his main opponents initially picked placeholder running mates before later substituting in substantive nominees. Obi selected former Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed on 8 July, Tinubu picked Senator Kashim Shettima on 10 July, and Kwankwaso chose pastor Isaac Idahosa on 14 July.
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