Here
are the 5 young candidates who want to unseat Buhari in 2019.
They
are in their ‘50s and ‘40s, they have just declared they want to be president
of Nigeria and they have told anyone who cares to listen that Muhammadu
Buhari's time as president is nearing an end.
We run
the rule on the young and the fearless presidential contenders ahead of the
2019 vote….
Kingsley
Chiedu Moghalu
He
is a 55-year-old former Deputy Governor of the Central
Bank of Nigeria.
He is a lawyer by training and a political economist
by profession. Moghalu also served in the United Nations.
“It
is the turn of any competent Nigerian to aspire for the post of presidency
because career politicians have failed Nigeria,’’
Moghalu announced on the day he made it clear he will be running for president.
“The
future of Nigeria rests in technocratic interventions. We need thinking people
that will take Nigeria from the politics of stomach infrastructure to politics
of mental infrastructure’’ he added.
Omoyele
Sowore
The
founder and publisher of online news platform Sahara
Reporters, hosted activists, journalists and young Nigerians at
13a Isaac John Street, GRA Ikeja for a town hall on Sunday, February 25, 2018,
and left no one in doubt he will be running for president.
“In
my first day as a president, I'll turn Nigeria into a construction site. I have
created jobs before. Since Buhari became president, his cows haven't
multiplied. He has had 150 cows since.
"If
you ask Nigerians about the economic plans of Buhari, they'll point to the
British accent of the finance minister. How does accent create jobs?”, Sowore
asked incredulously.
It was an afternoon in which Sowore took on all past
and present older generation of political leaders and made the case for why
he’s the answer to Nigeria’s problems.
Ayodele
Fayose
This
57-year-old Governor of Ekiti State has been a Buhari critic before the 2015
general elections.
He’s unabashedly crude and rude in his methods; and
has anointed himself the voice of the nation’s biggest opposition party. Fayose
has an opinion on practically everything that happens in Nigeria.
the day he declared for president, Fayose told haters
that they’ll watch him saunter into Aso Rock in 2019.
“To
the down trodden and those of you who go to bed hungry on a daily basis, I
assure you that help is on the way," he said.
“To
my haters, I want to tell them that they will watch me enter the Villa in 2019
because I’m Nigeria’s president in waiting.
“If you have not seen any miracle, this is your opportunity
because I am a miracle.
“This
calling of mine is without repentance and God will not apologize to anyone making
me president come 2019,” he added.
Donald
Duke
56-year-old
Donald Duke has been making the case for a young president since forever.
Duke was one of Nigeria’s better Governors when he
oversaw affairs of the serene Cross River State from 1999 to 2007
He’s
suave, urbane and cosmopolitan.
"I
am entitled to run for the presidency of this country. Only on right
circumstances I will aspire for it. I don't shy away from responsibility, I
will aspire for presidency of this country. I have what it takes to be
president of this country.
"It
is high time Nigerians begun to project people with the technical know-how to
take the country to the Promised Land”, Duke said in January.
Fela
Durotoye
This
46-year-old motivational speaker hurled his hat into the presidential ring last
week and he’s managed to stir some serious online debate on the chances of a
newcomer.
"Therefore,
to be clear, I am aspiring to contest as a presidential candidate in the 2019
general elections," Durotoye announced.
SOURCE: pulseng
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