Nigeria Decides As Presidential Election Holds

The 2019 Presidential election is currently holding in all 36 states of the country and the Federal Capital Territory.

It’s a going to be an historical day in Nigeria today, February 23, 2019, as citizens in West Africa’s most populous country will decide who will lead the country for the next four years.

The incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari under the political umbrella of All Progressives Congress (APC)is facing his strongest challenge, former Nigeria vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP).

The poll 009 under the model primary school polling unit phase3 kuwba,Abuja opened at 8AM though voting has not started but Nigerians are already trooping out in numbers to vote into office their desired candidate.

“I will vote this morning, I didn’t vote last time. Things are so hard in the country, so I want to have the taste of another person, I will vote for Atiku”, a retiree, B who resides in Kubwa tells THE WHISTLER.

“Atiku for me and my family, let him come and change the change. we need a Joshua to take us to greater height,” An accounting consultant in phase3 kubwa who preferred to be anonymous, tells THEWHISTLER.

MR John at the model primary school, 009, polling unit said he really does not know who his vote will go as he believes Nigerians votes never counts in elections.

“for now, I can’t say who I will vote for because I am not interested in the two candidate everyone wants. Even being here is to fulfill all righteousness as we all know that our vote will not count.”

Supporting the incumbent, a trader, who sells in kubwa market said I will vote for Buhari”,

It will be recalled that Buhari and Atiku signed the peace accord which is an agreement to prevent violence, during and after the elections.

The current issues Nigeria is facing are security, economy instability, oil, regional rivalry and infrastructure.

Meanwhile, it is necessary to note that the outcome of the 2019 presidential elections will affect the whole of the African continent.