Nigeria’s essential opposition Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP) is assembly in Abuja to elect a candidate for subsequent February’s presidential elections.
Fourteen candidates, 810 voting delegates and hundreds of different occasion members have poured into the capital.
The winner will lead the occasion into subsequent yr’s showdown in opposition to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Whoever emerges as the subsequent president is predicted to confront widespread insecurity and rising inflation.
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, former Senate Speaker Bukola Saraki and Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal are seen because the frontrunners within the PDP’s main election.
The occasion was rocked this week by the withdrawal of its 2019 vice-presidential candidate, Peter Obi, who has additionally left the occasion, citing inside points.
The first has been overshadowed by widespread accusations of vote-buying, with candidates accused of bribing delegates with as a lot as $10,000 to vote for them.
The PDP dominated Nigeria for 16 years after the return of democracy in 1999 till it was overwhelmed by a coalition of opposition events in 2015.
Since then, it has misplaced additional floor to the ruling APC, particularly in southern Nigeria the place two of its state governors have defected to the ruling occasion.
