January 28, 2015

Erm....Where are the 12 Other Presidential Candidates? Nigeria a two-party System?


Two weeks ago complied list of the 14 presidential candidates and their running mates in the February General elections was released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) (before they pulled down their websites). But I got wondering where are the other 12 Presidential candidates? Rarely have we seen their campaign rally or tour across the country to solicit for vote (like the 2 popular parties). If they are not financially buoyant why then contest?  Are they still in the election race or out? INEC should make such publicity.
 
United States Secretary of States John Kerry visited Nigeria to address and urge Nigerian contesting candidates and their supporters to desist from election violence as not to repeat the carnage of 2011. Recall that only two prominent contestants - APC and PDP presidentials candidate met with John Kerry. Bravo! good move by international body but why didn't he recognize other candidates or summon a group meeting of all "other" presidential candidate to give them same address. Why did US fail to recognize them? Are they and their supporters non violent? Probably they are not international recognized?
 

To hard insult to their injuries, in recent online polls conducted by AIT, aside PDP candidate Jonathan  with 26% votes and APC candidate  Buhari 76% votes while from "others party"only UPP candidate Okorie managed to get 0.71% which I termed as a "voted mistake" and non else among "others" gained a vote. Why Nigerians aren't paying attention to any of these parties? Don't you think one or two of them may be a better candidate for Nigeria President? All these thoughts are all over my head. What's your advice to those parties? Increase their publicity or just quit to save their effort? What do you all think? 

Apparently Nigeria is now gradually turning into or has turned to two-party-system, since the existence of other parties do not make any difference. Let me stop here. 

In case you don't know, here are some of these candidates are :
*Sen. Tunde Anifowose-Kelani as the presidential candidate of Accord Alliance (AA) and Mr Ishaka Paul as his running mate.
*Rufus Salawu and Akuchie Clif as preidential and his vice presidential candidates of AD.

*Alhaji Ganiyu Galadima and Ojengbede Farida as the presidential and vice president of ACPN
See the rest here

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice piece