Former Nigerian Vice President Atiko Abubakar will run for the presidency in 2023, as the main opposition party anointed him to succeed Muhammad Bukhari in the presidency.
The 75-year-old Abubakar lost to Bukhari in the 2019 elections, alleging fraud. Bukhari will not run next year, when his second four-year term as president of Nigeria ends.
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), which ruled Nigeria after the dictatorship, lost power in Bukhari’s Progressive Congress (APC) in 2015. The PDP aspires to return to governing Africa’s largest economy.
Accepting the anointing of the presidential candidate, Abubakar reiterated his campaign commitment to end public insecurity and revitalize the country’s fragile economy, while promising to work with his opponents. “I pledge, therefore, that I will restore unity. “I also pledged to address security issues in this country decisively,” Abubakar said.
This will be the third time that Atticus Abubakar has claimed the presidency of Nigeria.
From 1999 to 2007, he was vice president of Olushegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s first democratically elected leader after decades of dictatorship.
His main opponent will be the ruling APC party, which will select its candidate at a congress in early June. Favorites include Vice President Gemi Osinbayo and former Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu.
Nigeria’s next president will face a number of challenges: from the Islamist insurgency and the wave of kidnappings in the north of the country, to high inflation and a fragile economy.
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