Short Preview Of Nigerian Presidential Candidates – 18 In

All (17 Men & 1 Woman)

Peter Gregory Obi (61)

labour Party (lP)

Peter Gregory Obi CON is a Nigerian businessman and politician who served as governor of Anambra from March to November 2006, February to May 2007, and from June 2007 to March 2014. Obi graduated from the University of Nigeria in 1984. Afterwards, he entered business and banking, eventually rising to hold several high-ranking executive positions at banks. By the early 2000s, Obi was the chairman of Fidelity Bank before leaving the position to enter politics. Obi ran for governor in 2003 as a member of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, but his main opponent was unlawfully declared the winner. After three years of legal battles, Obi was declared the winner in 2006 and assumed office in March 2006. Former Anambra State governor Peter Obi emerged as the flagbearer of the Labour Party for the 2023 presidential election at the national convention and presidential primary held in Asaba, the Delta State capital, on May 30 after Pat Utomi stepped down. Obi joined the LP shortly after he resigned his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) membership and withdrew from the party’s presidential primary. He was the running mate of former Vice President Atiku in the 2019 general election.

Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (66)

Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, FNSE, FNIQS, is a Nigerian politician who was the Governor of Kano State from 1999 to 2003 and 2011 to 2015. After he lost his re-election in 2003, he was appointed the first Minister of Defense of the Fourth Republic with no prior military background from 2003 to 2007, under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He was later elected to the Senate in 2015, serving one term under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and representing Kano Central Senatorial District. In 2011, he was re-elected governor of the state and went on to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2014. In 2015, Kwankwaso unsuccessfully contested the presidential primary nomination under the opposition All Progressive Congress but lost to Muhammad Buhari. In 2018, he returned to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and contested the presidential primaries, losing out to Atiku Abubakar. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has been confirmed as the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for the 2023 general elections.