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Nigerian election campaigns are entering a new phase where there is no bar for the contestants to call names and level accusations on their political opponents. Some of the key insults hurled at each other border on their old age, criminality, money laundering past, inefficiency, and involvement in corruption.
Nigerian election campaigns are entering a new phase where there is no bar for the contestants to call names and level accusations on their political opponents. Some of the key insults hurled at each other border on their old age, criminality, money laundering past, inefficiency, involvement in corruption et al.
More than 93 million Nigerians will cast their votes to elect the new president to replace Buhari, who will be completing his two terms by February this year. Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation. It faces countless challenges, such as near-widespread insecurity, a severe economic crisis, and spiralling inequalities.
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The health of presidential candidates is a sensitive issue in Nigeria, where President Buhari caused a lot of talk by absenting himself for months during his first term to seek treatment in the United Kingdom for an unknown illness. Some of the presidential aspirants are septuagenarians. A good number of them have a not-so-clean image and were charged with corruption, money laundering, etc.
