For 2023 Presidency, all the political parties in Nigeria have conducted their presidential primary elections.
The deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, set June 9, 2022 for completion of primaries and submission of presidential candidates.
The ruling All Progress Congress, APC, chose its candidate, in the person of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who emerged winner of the presidential primaries held at Eagles Square, Abuja.
Tinubu defeated his closest challenger and former Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and was handed the party’s flag by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The leading opposition, the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), had a week earlier, elected former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate.
VAM News gathered that the Labour Party, LP, also picked the former Anambra State Governor, Dr. Peter Obi, as its candidate.
This is the list of all presidential candidates so far in the country after completion of presidential primaries:
Accord (A): Christopher Imumolen.
Action Alliance (AA): Hamza Al Mustapha
Action Democratic Party (ADP): Yabagi Sani
African Action Congress (AAC): Omoyele Sowore
African Democratic Congress (ADC): Dumebi Kachikwu
All Progressives Congress (APC): Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA): Peter Umeadi
Allied Peoples Movement (APM): Yusuf Mamman Dantalle
Boot Party (BP): Sunday Adenuga
Labour Party (LP): Peter Obi
National Rescue Movement (NRM): Okwudili Nwa Anyajike
New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP): Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP): Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Peoples Redemption Party (PRP): Kola Abiola
Social Democratic Party (SDP): Adewole Adebayo
Young Progressive Party (YPP): Prince Malik Ado Ibrahim
Zenith Labour Party (ZLP): Chief Dan Nwanyanwu.
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