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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the new dates for the 2023 general elections in Nigeria earlier this year on February 18, 2023, for the presidential election. The Presidential and National Assembly elections have been slated for February 25, 2023, while governorship and state assembly elections will now be held on March 11, 2023.

According to our source. President Muhammadu Buhari’s body language as to his preferred candidate for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the 2023 general election has unsettled the aspirants including

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
National leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, among others.

It was gathered that the inability of the Presidential aspirants for the 2023 general election to properly deduce the direction of the president delayed the declaration of some of the aspirants including Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and Rotimi Amaechi.

The presidential aspirants of the ruling party for the 2023 general election had sought the blessings of the president before declaring for the race. The lack of clarity on the president’s direction is fuelling agitation among the aspirants and their supporters as the deadline for the conduct of the political parties’ primaries approaches.

Impeccable sources around the presidency said President Buhari did not object to the plans by all the aspirants to vie for the presidency during the 2023 general election but he is keeping close to his chest his preference among the contenders.

President Buhari had on January 5, this year during an exclusive interview with Channels TV, said he does not care who succeeds him during the 2023 general election in the country.

One of the sources said the president’s action was causing ripples among the aspirants, their supporters, and critical stakeholders of the ruling party.

A founding member of the APC, said, unlike the party positions, the presidential candidate of the party cannot be singlehandedly handpicked by the president.

“Mr. President is being mindful of this fact, hence is being careful. In the build-up to the 2015 general elections, even when key stakeholders knew that the party ticket was for him (Buhari), we still conducted primaries in Lagos, where he defeated Atiku, Kwankwaso, Bukola (Saraki), Okorocha, and others,” the source said.

Sources said despite his open declaration that President Buhari does not care who succeeds him, the president seems to be in a tight corner. One of them said those who supported him when he needed it most and their supporters think this is the payback time.

While those with Tinubu are saying the president owed them given the role played by the former Lagos governor in the victories of Buhari in 2015 and 2019, those in the camp of the vice president believed that his emergence as the running mate did the magic in the 2015 polls.

On their part, those in the camp of Rotimi Amaechi, the former governor of Rivers State are saying that their candidate should be considered given the role he played as the director-general of the Buhari’s campaign organization.

But before the presidential primaries of the PDP, Obasanjo threw his weight behind late Umaru Musa Yar’adua who was rounding off his tenure as governor of Katsina State even though he had not indicated an interest in the race. Read full online [https://www.akinpedia.com/2023-general-election-in-nigeria-tinubu-or-who/]tinubu]

Asiwaju oko Remi , on your mandate forever. You got our support come rain come sunshine

Akin, stop wasting your ink.
No SWner is smelling that sit.
APC candidate won't be yoruba.
Take it or leave it.

On Tinubu manhood we stand

Asiwaju , God bless you. No matter how bitter the enemies are, you will eventually triumph over them even if they reach a million soul. These hate filled souls have made it a duty to slander his image but the man keep showing them why he is the Lion of Bourdillon

Baba Tinubu , Jah bless the leader. He is so present almost on every news

We're only looking forward for the best candidate that will move this Nation, Nigeria forward to the glory land sir...

Oplomo:
Akin, stop wasting your ink.
No SWner is smelling that sit.
APC candidate won't be yoruba.
Take it or leave it.

Akinpedia:
We're only looking forward for the best candidate that will move this Nation, Nigeria forward to the glory land sir...

There are good candidates in every region. The SW have taken their turn.