With 56 percent of the votes, could a sitting president Muhammadu Buhari during the early Wednesday morning declared the winner. Oppositionskandidaten Atiku Abubakar got only 41 per cent of the votes and has said he will appeal the result in court, as he believes that it depends on the cheating. But this grip has swiftly become the practice among the african opposition parties in recent years. One can have many objections to the election implementation. But Abubakar had not the numbers required.

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launched Abubakar, a 72-year-old muslim from the north of the country, to make inroads into the ruling party, APC’s core area, but the result was counterproductive. They failed to share the northern muslim väljarblocket at the same time as the enthusiasm among the traditionally christian kärnväljarna in the south fell.

Therefore, could Abubakar, or Atiku, as he is generally called, not repeat the Buharis achievement from 2015, when an opposition party for the first time in its history, took over power in a democratic way.

What we are seeing now is a consolidation of APC’s maktinnehav that can stretch over a very long time since the population increase is so much greater in the northern, poorer regions of the country where they have strongest support.

of democracy have succeeded in establishing a functioning two-party system where the two huvudmotståndarna have clear ideological profiles. It would be unfortunate if APC is becoming too dominant and crowd out the opposition, including borgat for a very large freedom of the press in Nigeria.

the Way forward for the PDP is rejuvenation. Half of the country’s inhabitants lack the right to vote because they are under the age of 18, but they will of course be older, and half of the registered voters are between 18 and 35 years old.

in this year’s election was 76 and 72 years of age. They belong to a generation of politicians who stayed stuck in the politics for decades. Buhari ruled Nigeria as juntaledare already in the early 1980s, and Abubakar was the country’s vice president during the first eight years of democracy, between 1999 and 2007. It is time for them to let go.

virtually every voter I have spoken with in recent weeks have called for a younger candidate who can shake up the political establishment.

on the PDP’s appeal should partistrategerna go out on the streets in opposing urban strongholds – the cities of Lagos, Kano and Minna – and build up a grassroots organisation that can find the young woman or man who should lead the party and the country from 2023 to 2027. A young leader would be able to break the sense of political apathy that many young people express by not voting. And the votes would be able to get both from the south and the north.