{"id":51560,"date":"2018-10-12T10:48:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=51560"},"modified":"2018-10-12T10:51:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:51:46","slug":"2019-election-full-list-of-presidential-candidates-and-parties-in-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=51560","title":{"rendered":"2019 election: Full list of presidential candidates and parties in race"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No fewer than 30 presidential candidates for the 2019 general election have emerged.<\/p>\n

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has already scheduled the Presidential and National Assembly elections for Saturday, 16th February.<\/p>\n

The Governorship and State Assembly\/Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Council elections have been scheduled for Saturday, 2nd March 2019.<\/p>\n

Below is a list of candidates that will run for the office of the president.<\/p>\n

President Muhammadu Buhari \u2013 All Progressives Congress, APC<\/p>\n

Atiku Abubakar \u2013 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP<\/p>\n

Donald Duke \u2013 Social Democratic Party, SDP<\/p>\n

Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim \u2013 Alliance for New Nigeria, ANN<\/p>\n

Omoyele Sowore \u2013 African Action Congress, AAC<\/p>\n

Oby Ezekwesili \u2013 Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN<\/p>\n

Obadiah Mailafia \u2013 African Democratic Congress, ADC<\/p>\n

Kingsley Moghalu \u2013 Young Progressive Party, YPP<\/p>\n

Chris Okotie \u2013 Fresh Democratic Party, FDP<\/p>\n

Hamza Al-Mustapha \u2013 Peoples Party of Nigeria, PPN<\/p>\n

Habib Mohammed Gajo \u2013 Young Democratic Party, YDP<\/p>\n

Olusegun Mimiko \u2013 Zenith Labour Party, ZLP<\/p>\n

John Gbor \u2013 All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA<\/p>\n

Davidson Isibor Akhimien \u2013 Grassroots Development Party of Nigeria, GDPN<\/p>\n

Ali Soyode \u2013 Yes Electorate Solidarity, YES Party<\/p>\n

Ike Keke \u2013 New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP<\/p>\n

Sunday Chukwu-Eguzolugo \u2013 Justice Must Prevail Party, JMPP<\/p>\n

Eunice Atuejide \u2013 National Interest Party, NIP<\/p>\n

Hamisu Santuraki \u2013 Mega Party of Nigeria, MPN<\/p>\n

Edozie Madu \u2013 Independent Democrat Party, IDP<\/p>\n

Peter Nwangwu \u2013 We the People of Nigeria Party, WPNP<\/p>\n

Ahmed Bee Buhari \u2013 Sustainable National Party, SNP<\/p>\n

Tope Fasua \u2013 Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party, ANRP<\/p>\n

Ade Fagbenro Bryon \u2013 Kowa Party<\/p>\n

Moses Shipi \u2013 All Blending Party, ABP<\/p>\n

Yahaya Ndu \u2013 African Renaissance Party, ARP<\/p>\n

Chuks Nwachukwu \u2013 All Grassroots Alliance. AGA<\/p>\n

Habu Aminchi \u2013 Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM<\/p>\n

Yabagi Yusuf Sani \u2013 Action Democratic Party, ADP<\/p>\n

Babatunde Ademola \u2013 Nigeria Community Movement Party, NCMP\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No fewer than 30 presidential candidates for the 2019 general election have emerged. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has already scheduled the Presidential and National Assembly elections for Saturday, 16th February. The Governorship and State Assembly\/Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Council elections have been scheduled for Saturday, 2nd March 2019. Below is a list of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[4149,6136],"class_list":["post-51560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-2019-election","tag-presidential-candidates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}