Who wins 2023 presidential Poll ?
2 min readThe presidential election is less than two weeks from now, our team of correspondents and analysts take a look at the state of the race. Since the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) flagged of the campaigns in late September 2022, it has been dominated by ethnicity, religious sentiments, personal attacks and fake news on social media.
Many observers have described this as one of the dirtiest campaigns ever with not too much focus of the critical issues facing the populace – like the economy and insecurity.
Before the parties took a break for end of year festivities, the fundamentals of the race seemed to be locked in, with many people appearing to have made up their minds who they will vote for early. Indeed, some estimates say that percentage of the electorate who are undecided could be as low as five percent.
the last few weeks, however, an x-factor was thrown into the mix with the seeming intractable fuel scarcity and the bungled naira swap which has plunged millions of people across the country into unprecedented hardship.
Suffice it to say that every season the air if thick with intrigue with schemers trying every trick in the book to either thwart the process, or prevent certain candidates from emerging winners. Back in 1993, the process was thrown into confusion by a dodgy judicial intervention at the last minute which the military authorities latched on to truncate the process. There has been plenty of evidence of the last few months how certain individuals and parties have clogged the courts with frivolous cases – many of which have been tossed out as lacking merit.
As Election Day draws ever closer, it remains to be seen whether those who have made up their minds about candidates to back, would made a U-turn on account of the aforementioned factors.