Presidential election: Five issues that will determine voting pattern - CDD

Renowned pro-democracy group, Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has highlighted four determining factors that will decide the 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections.

With the polls only a day away the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared its readiness to conduct the polls.

The group noted that the polls which has been described as one of the most anticipated since 1993 is till difficult to predict.

The leading candidates are Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP).

According to the pre-election brief signed by the EAC Chairman, Professor Adele Jinadu and CDD Director, Idayat Hassan, identity, insecurity, institutions, information disorder and inter and intra party squabbles are five key issues that will determine the voting pattern of the election.

The CDD pointed out that all six geopolitical zones of the country are faced with insecurity issues, which has led to the deployment of the Nigerian military across the federation.

“Northern states are engulfed in long-standing violence with extremist jihadist groups, criminal bandit gangs, and other non-state armed groups who are engaged in deadly attacks against local communities.

“In the south, civil unrest continues against the backdrop of ongoing violence between farmers and herders and secessionist agitators.

“The situation is further complicated by fuel and currency scarcity which is increasing economic hardships on the more than 130 million Nigerians classified as multi-dimensionally poor,” the group said.

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