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a dean nigeria as presidential candidates are making their final bids for public support and what is expected to be one of the most closely contested elections in years. millions of nearly registered voters could ultimately decide who will be chosen to tackle a range of economic and security challenges. here's what 3 of the leading candidates have been saying. oh mm hm. mm hm. with sean, i joining us to discuss the election from logos to renew or to walla project director

at hub and g r, and the human rights advocate and community organizer idiots hasn't director at the center for democracy and development of policy advocacy and research organization. she is joining us from a buddha. and last but not least, remo egg, but julie is africa editor at al jazeera. he is in abidjan in the ivory coast. and of course, you can be part of the conversation here at the stream, send us your thoughts through our live youtube chat. i want to start with a basic kind of outline of the candidates. let's start, there are mo, could you maybe talk us through these top 4 candidates, some of whom we just heard from their right away. there is an election where you have 2 candidates on the not to from the south for the really the apc you have to time for my very, very pico, who's the only one of our service at the national level and vice president

initially. and it has government a demo, la metrics in wayne, going to be vice president. you have to be on the legal party who is a 210 governor being governor and number in the southeast. and they had a brand new who is a to can go now of can also the defense thing is that teams and you know, people's party evenly spread from the most part. but it goes on artistic certainly. and it seems like the 2 party system is being disrupted by peter there. as you outlined, i want to ask you renew. maybe we take it back. what's the mood in the country? like, i know that there have been a lot of concerns around the economy. inflation high unemployment, particularly with youth. how would you describe things couple days before the election? well, thank you very much. i will say that,

but the reality of may 9 given today is well, but t is in security for leadership position rise, corruption, inadequate facilities. currently, i don't know if you know the wig events enabling shots kashi in currency of the narrow a nigeria. so there's, there's a lot going on in the country nigerians. ah, but the, the, i last, eric, you know, of william over knoxville police brutality. and then the insecurity taking place in several parts of the country. we also have an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and not to forget the 60 of us exhibiting you'd unemployment rates in the country. so that's a lot going on up when i gibbons i live by still with the lead shuns, just like a rumor said that considerable interest and involvement and usually from the you'd angle. ringback many of them are open to part to speak, some of them are fresh dying. some of them are 2nd time seen this elections. i'm supposed to have a saying would the net country does have going to be a darcy,

that the elections will be quite interesting. we've had a little while i load up, come in contributions and then was interesting, but these know what he can't really see who is going to be the next president. so we will wait. then we'll see natal i and i guess, i guess that's how it should be. i mean, your outlines so many challenges that the countries facing there. i want to ask you idiots when you hear your 2 colleagues there, framing this election. i know that my jury has been in recession twice just in the last 7 years. a lot of people looking to the future, hoping for a real change. how would you frame this election? what's the mood like for you? what's your major concern? i think their selections is sports. you can see the same make on my elections from nigeria on one hands. thank you. and i'm very excited to be going to the pause. they feel finally that they have a better option aside from the 2 domains parties. now there is no excuse to say

that you have to choose the lesser of the 2 evils you are for, for medieval candidates. hall will potentials of imagined women at one point or the other. and it's also an opportunity for them to re negotiate development. when you look at the answers e, as in particularly amongst the young people, you see that look, dis, they are saying like, look that we have default, we have over 39 percent on the registered voters, least. and if we can hand this how power we can actually ensure that there is a change such as the economy can actually walk for the young people, we can walk for the poor such that these. the oldest challenges of insecurity can finally be address. oh, i mean so, so the whole day was that it was shortly your last. yeah. it was, god knows wayne. yeah. so. so if this opportunity is lost, reno you wanted to jump in there, go ahead. i me, she's correct. is this up what's in it is lost. i think that there will be a lot of all set up rushed offline given because what like i said,

well we actually have the last aint, and i'm hoping that these could lead to the change the country poet. ah, you can also see that look on me. that's you seen those id number is an increase in registered both as the selection. i'm one of those numbers used by almost no mask. i'm to actually reach out to young people, meaning like a sales concierge. ajax, i'm bored, me to speak, i'm glad you brought that up because, you know, we, we actually saw, i think it's nearly 10000000 new voters that have been registered. right. and 84 percent of them are under the age of 34 or a 1000000 went over 9000000 registered fences. in fact, i'd like to hear from some of them. this is a clearance from 1000000 of them where young people. fantastic, hear all the stats that you need. now, i want to share with you what some of them have to say after receiving their voting cards. this is from january. take a listen. listen for the for them. i'm very excited. wanted to do at the size my what's in the rights, what's in the rights people into mental to make nigeria greets and what doesn't,

i mean i felt was still needs the need for change was in the hi. what's right now. something is a very clear that it's time that we chancy shown to the younger generation rules. and that's why if i don't piece now, when will i do renew? i see that you're nodding there. i want to ask you though, okay, there's some hope there's some extra through z as them. they know that they're a big block. maybe this is the moment that they're taken seriously, but i have to wonder, i mean youth unemployment, a real issue in the country. no, yes, and i does also contributed to load up a theme. the country model that 60 percent of young people in nigeria are unemployed and we can compare that to a country to quickly actually big country of their own. i'm also we will look at the state of human rights in the country that lead to the widespread for existing 2020. can see that they leave a lot of dissatisfaction with the system, but i like it. i said i'll we have young people to no longer have to choose between

the dev one, the blue. see right. i know that to be, it was a nik. i'm as a precedent now we have candidates that we can truly vulnerable and you can see that i may not even, and you read on entire ward can see at the entity as him of young mind. you and seeing the same thing, right. i'm and i'm a lot of both, you know my, i'm a lot of of the young adrian's aramark. i'm not mistaking supporting peter o b. or at least that's what it seems like from where i'm sitting. what would you like to add? it looked like you wanted to jump in there. and then i wanted to add to the point about give so many and actually unemployed people that it could be a country to complain when we have 159 jurel speaking in public. right. that's more than the population of another country in the continent. one another thing to note is that in the man in security across my direct and then not you have around, i don't know that but right. children were born in 2009.

we are going to be gap there will be able to both in the next election. right. so you have to look at the problems that young people have to realize you're finally going to have to go about many people. many people would probably that would be yeah. look like that's going to be the kid who am i won't be in the not where you're the most popular one in the country, right. and younger. yeah, we cannot pre support. one only knows that, right. but the one thing that we can agree on for sure that most of the voters, i think, the 3 quarters of the new york people, you know, some of my students who are for example, for example, they will try each month. and that price was the $1516.00 try that lecture that

going on since 1999. you have 3 teen strike everyone in the last place. yes. but, but go ahead. let's hear from renew for us. let's see. for us, if we can, you know, go ahead, then we'll come back to you. yes. talking about talking about the students, you know, actually make up about 40 percent of the new stuff that i've recently been registered . you see a recent presidential candidate also telling them that they would spend 8 yes, in school, better than the usual 4 years. and i dare say that many of them i and yeah, and the last, you know, i think the nigerian universal mission as also next showed us didn't go back to board. so many of them are going to actually be taking bots in this election. i'm be showing the anger frustration at this the standard has kept them out to him for almost a year. also. i think a lot of them i right in about the promises from the different residential candidate. i mean, how can you say that i will you promise me that i will spend more?

yes. then then i should be in there in the school. so i think that's right. i love them. i heard within that quite fair enough. go ahead. turn off a death. go ahead. ok. but it's also important to i liked that young people. it's not a more no, you'd see category. most of this young people are actually supporting miss p t o b y audits, our support team for quinn. so fanatically, while the audits of what's in did 2 dominant shirty candidates as well. so it's caught up worth it spread. it depends on the turnout on the day of elections. it's that i'm sure that the few days will, will be annoying. by due time, we are able to analyze the numbers of people who are about to collect a debt, permanent votes, as cut, and which category they do actually belong to. i appreciate the no, i was go ahead go ahead barrel. i was just going to again, through that point right there, sometimes, you know, does it work from the top of my direct tendency to look at from only one point. but

do you want to see one of the country, one or 2 people walking into one category? so the levels of education somewhat linked with all the time, right? and so it's important that we can see the commanders from being generated by one or so it can be, it's right. people in the north or in the center of the country for example, have one preferences. so i think for me to know it because we are very quick and to find working and you know, it's kind of in the setting, you know, most certainly, and i really appreciate you know, that you making as understand, you know, it's not as if all the youth vote in one way or all women vote in one way or even one ethnic group or what have you. i do want to share with you because the 3 of you outlines so in such detail,

sort of all the mounting challenges. let's listen to what coco company a santee had to say, outlining some of the key challenges nigerian space. take a look. no fully telling? yes i see to the upcoming with kitchen system to be less. and i will perform one election day. honestly, how would you believe that i would to respond to that can issue has to do with the that you noticed in our notes that i guess and then also the foolish to use and not how not including effect movement on election day. and it said issues to do with the community and how weiss great it will be on the election day. and would i have to act on that 10 out. and lastly, he said this information is information and how the treat waiting to respond or react to force information disseminated election. it is at the

end there, one of the challenges we haven't discussed is disinformation. how do you think that's factoring into this election? is it i think that's one of the biggest challenge into selections because information is actually being weaponized. and there is actually it's in line between the online, under offline in nigeria. so when people think about just like 32000000 over to, to 1000000 people online, how does that get to the over 200000000 read on nigerians? it's just like like this it's, it's very, very broad. and what is been said online is abilene, patsy. and you did offline and in a different, in different sets of way in this election was we are saying that people are not even yeah, weaponized in information to glue. if i get candidates we, i hear me not so spurious. in some candidates up don, when we know they are not really achievable, it's been used to di, legit, demise, opposing candidates as well as institution which plays

a very important role. by the time you release into court, you're talking about the bam or devil tack latisha system. yeah. because now people do not even have trust in that system. people cannot seek to read from wrong. write all the votes as register itself as a challenge, while they are as much as possible weaponized in modeling formation, india selection, right? and then, you know, renew. i have to say weapon ising misinformation. it seems like, as you said at the beginning of this conversation, nobody really knows who's going to win. but with that said, there have been so many different concerns about things, including the central bank. i was reading earlier today. people not being able to withdraw money as we heard. i actually let me, let me play this clip for our audience. it's a man in northern nigeria who's angry, specifically at the fuel and cash or to just take a listen. what is a what? a nice of your bunk key point government product at all. i want to do to

deposit on on one a one. but now you cannot fix your own money. i don't got many seats. i mean, he asked the question there, rena, what's your answer way? just like is said the, the government access to deposit our own money and we can't even collect it. i but then it's easy to put on to notes that this is not the 1st time that these governments will be doing such an enquiry. was our military head off state in 1984 and the same disastrous policy was enact that den web. people couldn't collect their money, many of our in the sign of god maintained that he will ensure that politicians are equal and not able to buy votes. and many are seen that the hardship is simply to watch. the government is absent in a lot of people's lives. and still they cannot access their own money to buy that things that they need their own money. so like the man said,

a lot of nigerians are angry and i expect that to showing this elections but by no behind but by. he's already on the way because of the easiest. i will mention anita welby diet from aramark from i'd like to call you as well that humans are truly going to a lot. and like i said, it would be nice on the way. but a lot of my jones are also going to be what's in the basement. you should, i'm at our most will to then and the fact that in one of the world's most pop up, our biggest, biggest oil producers we didn't already went out was this was custody currently in the country. the fact that i'm the person who promised us i was gonna write the corruption, get me to the country. i, as i said, as a precedent and walk of ocean even in march. so a lot of measurements, i'm the right. thank you, thought they did as a young person as well. what do you, does that matter most to me as the social e? so i think that these are what i do and we'll be brought in. i'm glad i'm glad they are appealing this line. i know that you wanted to jump in there, irma but, but, but this idea that nigerians are angry, i want to share with you a comment that's in our are you to chat here from bonaventure, eugene,

saying the voter turnout will be massive, but i hope, thugs, won't disrupt or create fear among voters. that anger might turn into violence. irma, what were you going to jump in and say, i was going to jump in nigeria, the country where the new part of the ball and everything. right. we might tell someone that africa, the local to the, for many in the neighbor had and electricity for 24 on the plan will have to well, you know, even do just the mission way. you know, there's also so important because happening everyday, for example, this cash flap and what is going to happen as a result of the outcome is going to be the people who are trying to draw up the report. going to be even much truckload. you know, because it's going to tell you, for example, i need my bad one now you asked me to bring people that can, right,

you know, so i'm going to be back to call and i buy so many people in the lecture you're going to dc, it much like it doesn't, i'm pretty much like it's on our own selection. gumby has been an electron on maybe that maybe that wouldn't be necessarily the worst thing. i mean, i don't want to be flipping about it, but i, but i to, i wouldn't be, it wouldn't be, i don't, on the, on the loan that you mentioned. you know, i'm how many electrons are quite dense. there's a little tent station in the country currently. we have a lot of is used to welcome back in right from the not east it due to the north. but every part of the country is almost in chaos right now. due to insecurity does is happening well, and this will take care of your audience. if i can renew. i just want to share like, you know, in the north, in the south. i think they're back to me. she's let renew you were saying something

. and i think so, yeah, what entities, what the lead up that, that you about to show the god in the past that a lot of criminals, a different part of the country you didn't use so, but she and no longer in control. i couldn't get any, i mean conclude i couldn't, you know, if someone at and, and i think your audio was putting out there, but we did want to share and just visualize for audience, you know, in the northwest. a lot of concerns around banditry, also in the slamming state affiliates of course boca had. i'm in the north east in the southeast there, separatist movements in the central areas. of course, there's the conflict with the farmers. this is just what i was trying to share with our audience, to, to visualize where you were saying about, you know, much of the country if not all of the countries in crisis. and with that in mind, often when there's a crisis, i think of who can solve that will maybe women. i want to ask you, you know, because we've, we've talked a lot about this might being, you know, this selection may be a being an opportunity for women. we do have

a clip of one woman who is running for a state governorship, or of course, it's a separate round of voting for those who are not familiar with the nigerian election system, but still very much aiming to break that glass ceiling there. take a listen. this is a moment to see me like to this to night jenny have walked one 0 min hell from a major political party becoming a candidate for governor. and she is a from tra, i should have been on the over came religious and cultural barriers in the patriarchal society to get here. she says, it's been worth the struggle. it gives woman, it gives, so a daughters and gives us says to the aunties, on what does the confidence that to yes or soul ah, who wore men, can walk towards buying what ever elective position the desire

renew. i'm curious, are you enthusiastic that this may be a shift ah, for women all over the country in terms of being kind of a galvanized to, to occupy higher offices. and i am sad because if you look on the 2019 elections as opposed to rethink sprint elections, you will see that those in decline in the number of women political candidates who are coming up in the political stay nigeria. which means that they said there's an issue if there could be a reduction, we set up an increase recently as well. you had a tax on and, and that cannot be, oh, sure, you know, ah, you can trace back to davis and i talked on the, you know, women leaders and political candidates at recently a woman you know, was killed in cartoon. i went out the label patsy. was assassinated and so that's a little i'm tickled balance ged towards women in nigeria. they are not usually seen as people who should lead someone. and i'm thought that we have less women. what contesting for political seats on the other and you have women like these?

and although a wonderful woman, what ensuring that the stand your ground, the respective of their political climate, to spread people that are political systems are gone by godfathers. and all of that, that's just kinda a ground to and show out adequately that women adequately represent it. so i don't think i durance glad, but this women because the which in the future. thank you. i had had that. yeah. i want to add that will be very, very what one be to me. i mean, there's only one and a few minutes ago, but i get a hand right. this is a demo. the, it's in the northeast. this is a cool book around keep you on a so it was not just a minute to generate it. and of course, i appreciate you ending on that. no, that's sadly all the time we have for today's conversation. but of course,

so many concerns around the cues, the voter registration process. and even on youtube, as we've heard from some people concerned that polling stations across the country might not all be open. so a conversation, we will continue here, where you can always find us online at stream dot al jazeera dot com. thanks to our guest. thanks for watching. ah ah. a to was the 5th year on global record stretching back more than

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