Get your PVC ready.
“The right to vote is the basic right without which all other rights are meaningless and baseless. It gives people, people as individuals control over their own destinies”. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson (Former President of the United States).
The drum rolls for the 2023 elections, everyone is all charged up and ready for the elections; both those contesting for offices and the electorates willing to exercise their franchise.
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So far, only nine persons have openly indicated interest and publicly declared their intentions to contest for the highest seat in the land. More people are definitely going to raise their hands to show interest in the presidential bid subsequently but as of today, we have only nine contestants who have held press conferences declaring their interests to grab the presidential seat.
Some of the aspirants claimed that becoming the president of Nigeria is their destinies and their life time dreams which they must fulfill while some took it to the spiritual and faith dimension; claiming that it has been prophesied that they are the ones that have been anointed by God himself to take the Nation to the promise land and it must come to pass as it has been prophesied just like in the days of Elijah.
The people that have made their presidential intentions known to the public are: Bola Tinubu; the former Governor of Lagos state and All progressive Congress National leader, Anyim Pius Anyim; the former Secretary General of the federation, Dave Umahi; the incumbent governor of Ebonyi state, Yaya Bello; the current governor of Kogi state, Dele Momudu; the Chairman of the Ovation media, Kingsley Moghalu; Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Yul Edochie; the Nollywood actor, Orji Uzor Kalu; former Governor of Abia state and Khadijah Okunnu- Lamidi; Media Entrepreneur.
Political analysts and spectators are speculating that the numbers of those interested in the presidential seat will increase in the coming days. There are speculations that the former president, Goodluck Jonathan is also interested to get back to power and also the incumbent Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo May also be “under pressure” to join the ring for the Aso rock king’s seat, also the former Vice President and a regular in the presidential election contest, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will definitely be interested this time again but he’s yet to make his intentions public.
Citizens of Nigeria should know that it all boils down to them, the electorates who are willing to exercise their right to vote, they are the deciders of who gets on to power come 2023 and this is the reason why every citizen who is eligible to vote and have the interest of the nation at heart should get his or her permanent voters card (pvc) ready and make sure he or she exercises his fundamental human right to vote as provided in s.40 of the Constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria.