With the infusion of young blood into our political space, 2019 election is going to be an election like no other. It may well likely be a vote between the young and the old, a choice between the continuing with the old ways of doing things or forging a new path for ourselves, by trying new breeds with fresh ideas.
The following are the aspirants for the presidency in the 2019 election. Who among these candidates will you be voting for and why?

ASPIRANTS
Eniola Ojajuni – 39 years old
Enyinnaya Nnaemeka Nwosu – 40 years old
Ahmed Buhari – 40 years old
Mathias Tsado – 41 years old
Fela Durotoye – 46 years old
Charles Udeogaranya – 46 years old
Thomas-Wilson Ikubese – 47 years old
Omoyele Sowore – 47 years old
Tope Fasua – 47 years old
Olu James Omosule – 48 years old
Kingsley Moghalu – 55 years old
Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies – 55 years old
Donald Duke – -56 years old
Peter Ayodele Fayose – 57 years old
Adesanya Fegbenro-Bryon – 59 years old
Remi Sonaiya – 63 years old
Sule Lamido – 69 years old
Atiku Abubakar - 71 years old
Muhammadu Buhari – 75 years old

Omoyele Sowore all the way. And the reason is simply because he is young, vibrant and innovative. We need people like this at the helms of affairs in this country if we really want to progress as a country.

THE OLDER, THE BETTER
THE OLDEST, THE BEST

#PMB1523

I'm boycotting the election in support of a referendum for my fellow Igbos to exit the 1914 British colonial disaster known as Nigeria.

Buhari na.

Buhari we know, Buhari we vote for now.

You can't win presidential election in Nigeria without grassroot support. In as much as we love to have those young bloods in power, they would never pull the votes needed without the grass root political power enjoyed by PDP and APC party for now.

Sowore would only win election on the social media but not in the villages where the only name they have heard contesting for presidency is through PDP and APC no other party is in existence.

I will vote for majority of Nigerians choice that is, MUHAMMADU BUHARI of APC

PMB tried tested and trusted

PMB IS A GOAL

ALMUSTAQIM:
THE OLDER, THE BETTER
THE OLDEST, THE BEST

#PMB1523

SECONDED.

PMB TILL 2023. No shaking!

We are all for Buhari. And yes we know the unfortunate killings that were not stopped in time, we know he has a bad IG of police and we know there are a few corrupt people in APC.

In spit of these Buhari is one of the few of the Nigerian elite with integrity. He is the only one who can force tough but necessary economic policies through because of his age and nothing to lose.

He was alone in calling out corruption as one of the destiny speakers of YOUNG people in Nigeria Some of them don't like him but God in time reveals the truth . More importantly, the killing, looting party called the PDP should die painfully.We need knew young people in government and Presidency should move to Ibo land to keep Nigeria one and tap leadership talent of that area in 2023.

SternProphet:
We are all for Buhari. And yes we know the unfortunate killings that were not stopped in time, we know he has a bad IG of police and we know there are a few corrupt people in APC.

In spit of these Buhari is one of the few of the Nigerian elite with integrity. He is the only one who can force tough but necessary economic policies through because of his age and nothing to lose

There are so many other Nigerians with integrity. No matter what we may think of our beloved country, there are still more good Nigerians than the bad Nigerians, but unfortunately, our politics is filled with the worst Nigerians we have, infacts our politics as it is has been hijacked by criminals. Integrity is good but governance, performance, action, track record, consistency, agility and good health is also needed. Also a leader that has capacity. Our leader should be the best of us not the worst of us. Is Buhari really the best Nigerian in Nigeria to be our leader? Do you not think that you as a Nigerian can run a state or a country better than so many of our past and present president, governors and senators combined.

Op sef go vote General

worksmart:
PMB tried tested and trusted

What has been PMB's achievements in the last 3 years of his presidency? Do you think thats the best he can do? We have so many options next year. The presidential candidates for our 2019 election are some of our best and brightest Nigerians. We have alternatives for presidency this time around. Should we really stick with a "just okay" PMB, who the best his supporters can say about him is "he has integrity" but yet lacks capacity. In China, they build sky scrapers overnight, in Nigerians it takes our leaders years to complete a single project. In developed countries, the government provides welfare for the destitute or poor, including free housing, health care, quality education, and finance for the people. In Nigeria, Nigerian citizens are the ones that provide welfare for their fellow Nigerians not the government. Infact Nigerians abroad are the highest foreign investors to Nigeria through the remittances they send back home every time. Can we not do better? Nigeria is a 1000years behind developed countries because we have analogue leaders running a digital generation and we honestly can't get anything done with such leaders. Our country is blessed tremendously and Nigeria can very easily become the best country in the world and the envy of the rest of the world, but we will never get there with the crop of leaders we have today. So why continue with the style of leadership and politics we have in Nigeria today?

lindabon:


What has been PMB's achievements in the last 3 years of his presidency? Do you think thats the best he can do? We have so many options next year. The presidential candidates for our 2019 election are some of our best and brightest Nigerians. We have alternatives for presidency this time around. Should we really stick with a "just okay" PMB, who the best his supporters can say about him is "he has integrity" but yet lacks capacity. In China, they build sky scrapers overnight, in Nigerians it takes our leaders years to complete a single project. In developed countries, the government provides welfare for the destitute or poor, including free housing, health care, quality education, and finance for the people. In Nigeria, Nigerian citizens are the ones that provide welfare for their fellow Nigerians not the government. Infact Nigerians abroad are the highest foreign investors to Nigeria through the remittances they send back home every time. Can we not do better? Nigeria is a 1000years behind developed countries because we have analogue leaders running a digital generation and we honestly can't get anything done with such leaders. Our country is blessed tremendously and Nigeria can very easily become the best country in the world and the envy of the rest of the world, but we will never get there with the crop of leaders we have today. So why continue with the style of leadership and politics we have in Nigeria today?

You have a peculiar definition of leadership. Someone has been feeding you lies. A man who has been head of state, governor, minister, GOC, infrastructure czar in PTF and state governor many years before ..suddenly does not have capacity. So who has capacity, GEJ?. That was an ordinary A level teacher that Alan's and OBJ promoted far above his ability.

First of all, let me address this "digital leadership" and "digital generation" crap.
There is no such thing as digital leadership in the context it is being used in Nigeria. Digital leadership is an organisational character and ability that makes them dominate the competition using digital technology.

Anyway knowing that what some Nigerian youths mean by "digital leadership " is the button-down, approachable, zero formality, accessible on social media kind of leadership, i would say this is the dressing of and not the core of leadership. Buhari has Twitter accounts, Facebook and others. He regularly communicates his programmes
Leadership has not changed since the early man or much later since the time of empire builders. The first thing is LOVE of your country and these days we want INTEGRITY. Every other quality can be bought and paid for. Brazil makes aircraft, buses and have a more developed infrastructure than Nigeria, their Presidents are not "digital" in the shallow sense itbos used here. China is ruled by only ONE party, the chairman of that party has given himself almost forever in office early this year. Putin is a dictator, what you get away with calling Buhari, they will kill you for in Russia. The crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is just 31, he almost panicked after allowing women to drive just this year
Please where is the digitally in the leadership anywhere.
There is no such thing. Whether it is leading a team of developers in Microsoft, chairing a meeting to build a new space vehicle in the EU involving 20 countries and 5 big companies or teaching Arabic to Almajiris in the dirtiest part of Kano, leadership is soul to souls, mind to minds. It has not changed.

Quickly to the "digital generation". Nigeria is 70% young people but only 15% of Nigerians are in digital age.
Young people on social media have to stop deceiving themselves and face life with courage and reality. There are just 15% of you and most of you live in mega cities of Lagos, Portharcourt and Abuja.
To make matters more interesting about 50% of that number are also for Buhari.
This is not even the tragic thing. The tragic thing is that there are many other youths living semi urban and rural lives within those mega cities. Those other guys are not in the digital age.
One of the reasons PDP lost elections is believing bull shit. They left wide swathes of the youth population uneducated, unemployed and unempowered and they paid dearly.

How stupid to say Buhari should be President only for 15% of Nigerians in the digital age.
What cluelessness is driving that belief.
We have education, primary health, agriculture, re-skilling, de radicalization, de cultization, infrastructure, defence and security to do.

Nigeria has people issues. We need all the boring qualities they have stopped teaching - honesty, integrity, discipline, hard work, innovation and invention.
I was talking to an ex colleague in Europe about nuclear plant integrity. What it takes to prevent a nuclear power plant from blowing up and killing millions. He told me about instrument technicians he once worked with and the fact that they had to be boring, honest, painstaking, careful and extremely highly skilled. This is what we are actually talking about in a digital age. What about participating in a large IT installation in a big company or operating and maintain a large refinery or piloting a plane with many souls on board?.
We have to get serious and get back to basics. This is why we need Buhari and people like him. It is not fancy speeches by guys in T-shirt and jeans on TedTalks. It is being honest about qualities that makes a country great and they do not include yahoo-yahoo, stealing government money, paying yourself N13,5m as senator, oloshoism, drug taking at.c

SternProphet, good points. What most people believe is that Buhari lacks capacity. He does not seem to be able to control people around him rather it seems it is the people around him (cabals) that are in control not the president. Even his wife attested to this so we cannot say this is just a rumour. Should we stick to this sort of leadership? Is Buhari really the best Nigerian out there? If I can ask, have you had sometime to look at the other presidential aspirants or is it just a rigid Buhari or nothing stance that most of us are applying?