The 2019 Presidential election is barely 18 months away, with an under-performing ruling party and a confused looking opposition party, forgive the average Nigerian if he is concerned about the chances of getting purposeful leadership in the next elections. We try to figure out the Top 5 Possible Candidates To Replace President Buhari. For the first time in a long time, it is unclear what political permutations will throw up the next leader of the most populous black nation on earth.
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It is still not clear whether President Muhammadu Buhari will seek a second term, but if his health travails are anything to go by, it will be insensitive to expect him to contest in 2019.
Here is a list of Top 5 possible candidates to replace President Buhari.
5. Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
In other more mature democracies and developed societies, the current Acting President would be a front runner for the top job come 2019. But this is Nigeria, and we still battle chronic ethnic divisions, God-fatherism and a brand of politics that might not necessarily suit this urbane and mild mannered Lagosian.
Before the 2015 elections, not many people had heard of Osinbajo, except perhaps in his home State Lagos where he had served as a two term Commissioner of Justice and Attorney General between 1999 and 2007. But if the last two years are anything to go by, he looks to be the kind of public servant Nigeria has been crying out for. Born Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo, on the 8th of March 1957 at Creek Hospital, Lagos, the current Vice President is a Proffessor of Law and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
An accomplished scholar, teacher, lawyer and administrator, Yemi is one of the nation’s leading experts on the Law of Evidence, National and Regional Corporate Commercial Laws and Public Law. From 1979 –1980, Osinbajo participated in the one-year youth service programme as a Legal Officer with Bendel Development and Planning Authority (BDPA), in the now defunct Bendel State, Nigeria. In 1980, he attended the London School of Economics & Political Science, where he obtained a Master of Laws degree. He proceeded to the University of Lagos, where he worked as a Lecturer. From 1988–1992, he was appointed as an Adviser (Legal Advice and Litigation), to the then Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, KBE.
Its no news that the ruling party is a bed filled with strange bed fellows, the now defunct ACN faction led by the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu nominated Osinbajo as its contribution to the Presidential Ticket in the intense horsetrading that led to the formation of the All Progressives Congress. One of the misgivings towards a possible Osinbajo candidacy would be his allegiance to APC strongman Bola Tinubu. He would be seen as an extension of the already overwhelming influence of the Jagaban in Nigerian Politics.
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