Muhammadu Buhari
Muhammadu Buhari (75), the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2019 Presidential election is the Nigeria’s 15th Head of State.
Buhari had since his entrance into partisan politics, run for the office of the President in 2003, 2007 and 2011 before he was elected to lead the country in 2015.
He declared his intention to seek a second term in office on 9th April 2018 and was affirmed as the party’s candidate for the election, having been unanimously elected by over 14.8 million members of the party on Sunday.
Atiku Abubakar
The 71-year old former Vice President is the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The Adamawa-born politician is running for the office of the President for the 5th time; having previously ran in the presidential primaries of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in March 1993; the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in 2011 and that of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2014.
He also ran in the 2007 Presidential elections as the candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) where he came 3rd, behind General Muhammadu Buhari and Late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua of the PDP; the winner of the election.
In his present bid, he beat 11 other candidates in the PDP primary including Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto and Senate President Bukola Saraki to clinch the party’s ticket.
Kingsley Moghalu
The lawyer and Professor in International Business and Public Policy is the candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP).
Moghalu (55), had worked as a United Nations official for 17 years, where he served as political affairs officer in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the UN Headquarters in New York, Special counsel in-charge of policy development, strategic planning and external relations for the organisation’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and several other capacities within the global organisation.
In 2002, he was appointed to the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland as Head of Global Partnerships and Resource Mobilization at The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) and on his resignation from the U.N, he was appointed Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) working together with then governor of the apex bank, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi up until 2014.
He joined the 2019 presidential race in February and emerged as candidate of the party on September 8, 2018.
Donald Duke
The former Governor of Cross River state is the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Since his exit from office in 2007, he has continuously being touted as gunning for the nation’s top political office, with speculations that he was even among the governors from the South-South considered as running mate to Late President Umaru Musa-Yar’adua after the latter emerged as candidate of then ruling party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Duke (57), joined the SDP on September 4, 2018 and clinched the party’s ticket to emerge as its flag bearer on Sunday.
Obiageli ‘Oby’ Ezekwesili
The Co-covener of the Advocacy group, Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) is the candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN).
Oby as she is popularly called, started off her career in public office during the Olusegun Obasanjo administration as the Pioneer head of the Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligence Unit (aka Due Process Unit) and later as Nigeria’s Minister of Solid Minerals.
She was subsequently appointed Minister of Education during the second-term presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo, a position she left for the World Bank when she was appointed as its Vice-President for the Africa Region in May 2007.
‘Madam Due Process’ was also co-founder of Transparency International and served as one of its pioneer directors.
Fela Durotoye
The 47-year old Leadership expert and motivational speaker is the candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN).
He had served as the head of the customer service department at Phillips Consulting Limited in 1998 and is currently the president of the GEMSTONE Nation Builders Foundation, non-governmental organization.
FD as he is popularly called, made public his intention to run for the Presidency n February 22, 2018 and was chosen by a coalition of 11 aspirants under the umbrella of the Presidential Aspirants Coming Together (PACT) as their consensus candidate for the 2019 general elections.
On September 29, 2018, he won the primary election of his party, the ANN to become his flag bearer for the Presidential poll in February.
Olusegun Mimiko
The former governor of Ondo is the candidate of the Zenith Labour Party.
Mimiko (64), the first two-term governor of Ondo state was previously appointed Federal Minister for Housing and Urban Development under the Olusegun Obasanjo administration in July 2005, leaving his position as the Secretary to the Ondo State Government (SSG), having been appointed to the office in 2003.
The two-time Ondo State Commissioner for Health and immediate past chairman of the People’s Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDP-GF) declared for the presidency on September 13.
He emerged as the flag bearer of the ZLP on Sunday.
Omoyele Sowore
The human rights activist and and founder of online news agency, Sahara Reporters is the candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC).
Sowore (47), was the President of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Student Union Government between 1992 and 1994, announced his intention to run for the office of president in the 2019 Presidential election on February 25, 2018.
On October 6, 2018, he emerged unchallenged as the Presidential Candidate for the party which he founded in August.
Chris Okotie
The 60-year old televangelist and Senior Pastor of the Household of God Church, Lagos is the candidate of the Fresh Democratic Party (FRESH).
Okotie first ran for the office of the President under the platform of the Justice Party (JP) in the May 2003 elections, losing to then President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He also ran in the 2007 and 2011 presidential elections on the platform of the Fresh Democratic party, a party he founded, but lost to late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and President Goodluck Jonathan respectively.
Hamza Al-Mustapha
The former intelligence officer during the days of the Nigerian military junta is the candidate of the People’s Party of Nigeria (PPN).
Al-Mustapha was the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of General Sani Abacha, military head of state of Nigeria from November 1993 to June 1998 and was removed from his job by the transitional regime established by General Abdulsalam Abubakar after Abacha’s sudden death in June 1998.
He was subsequently arrested and tried for the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election, Chief Moshood Abiola and was sentenced to death by hanging but was discharged and acquitted of the crime by the appeal court, Lagos division on Friday, July 12, 2013.
He emerged as the PPN flag bearer at the party’s National convention on Sunday, beating two other aspirants to secure the ticket.
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