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BETWEEN ATIKU AND BUHARI FOR 2019

Many Nigerians are desperately seeking good governance. For more than a decade the political parties the country has had have failed to deliver on the much needed dividends of democracy.

As the 2019 election draws near, there seems to be a lot of debate surrounding who the better candidate is between the two aspirants of the two biggest political parties. Some people believe the Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari deserves a second tenure for 'fighting corruption'. Others think he has failed woefully over all.
Those in support of Atiku Abubakar believe he can steer the country away from the Nepotistic tendencies of the incumbent and give well deserved appointments. His critics say he is corrupt and is just looking for an opportunity to enrich himself and his cronies.

Let us look at the profile of the two candidates:

Does president Muhammad Buhari honestly believe that he deserves a second tenure with the way he's handled the economy, his lop-sided appointments and his silence on the increasing spate of killings across the country?

Atiku Abubakar was recently reported to have complained on the recent search of him and his entourage returning to the country reportedly in a private jet. This is someone who claimed to have been unable to afford the nomination form of his party for the presidential primaries. So who is fooling who?

We are honestly tired of professional politicians scheming ways to defraud the masses. Maybe what we need is a paradigm shift. I say it's time to test the intellectuals. We can't keep recycling the same old set of people. We need to move on as a people. Only when we stop getting divided across ethnic and religious lines. There is hope for Nigeria but only when we unite.

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