The year 2023 marks a transitional period in Nigeria's election calendar, with intense campaigns and focus on the candidates of the ruling party and opposition. The presidency of Muhammadu Buhari comes to an end, leading to a highly anticipated election.
Year 2023, just like other odd years in Nigeria ’s election calendar, signals the climax and anticlimax of the politics season of the last four years. What’s more, 2023 is a year of transitional elections both at the national level and in most states, no thanks to the introduction of staggered sub-national elections in 2003. Like 2007 and 2015, this year’s election was intense because the presidency of Muhammadu Buhari had come to an end after his two terms of eight years as provided by the law.
With presidential primaries of the political parties conducted the previous year and campaigns in full blast, all eyes were mainly on the candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. The Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, who had broken out of the PDP, was still viewed with cautious optimism or was waved as not being able to win beyond a few states in the geopolitical sout
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