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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, i a shaun i joining us to discuss the election from lagossi renew,

or to walla project director at hub and g r and the human rights advocate and community organizer. it's 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 julia 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 then is an election where you have to kind of this on the, not to from the south for the really the apc you have to time for my very, very problem. i was the only one of our service at the national level as vice

president initially, and it has government done a lot metrics in wayne going to be vice president. you have to be on the legal party who is a to 10 being your time and number in the southeast. and they had a brand new facility who is a to can go off of cameras. also the defense thing is that teens and united people's party even in the spread of korean men from the most popular 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 a couple days before the election? well,

thank you very much. i would say that that the reality of me 9 given to the is bob etc, insecurities or leadership position rise corruption, inadequate facilities currently. i don't know if you know the wag events in england shot coffee. i mean currency of the narrow a nigeria. so there's, there's a lot going on in the country nigerians. ah, but the us, the i last eric, you know, of william over noticed over 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 over 60 bidding. you don't have my mentor rates in the country, so that's a lot going on up when i gibbons i live but still with the lead sions. just like a rumor said that considerable interest and involvement, mentorship on the you'd angle. ringback many of them are open to, but 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, but the elections will be quite interesting. we've had a little while i load up, come in contributions and then what's interesting but is nobody can't really see who is going to be the next president. so we will wait. then we'll see in natal, i understand and, and i got an idea of 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 it's a make on my elections from nigeria on one hands. thank you. and i very excited to be going to the pause. they feel finally that they have a better option aside from to,

to dominant parties. now there is no excuse to said that you have to choose the lesser of the 2 evils you are for, for medieval candidates. hall will put sanchez off. imagine winner at one point on the order. and it's also an opportunity for them to re negotiate development. when you look at the answers, the, as in, particularly among the young people, you see that look, dis, they're 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. what for the poor such that these the oldest challenges of insecurity can finally be address. oh, and it's also the whole day was a so put short the short last. yeah. it was. god knows wayne. yeah. so. so if this opportunity is lost, renew you wanted to jump in there, go ahead. i me. she is correct. is this up? what's in it? is lost, i think that there'll be a lot of offset up rushed offline gibbons 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 it. i look on the last you seen those id number is an increase in registered both as the selection i'm but all those numbers used by almost all must come to attribute to young people. meaning, like i saw it's conceivable. ajax, i'm boldly 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 $34.00 or a 1000000. went over 9000000 and interest at fences. in fact, i'd like to hear from some of them. this is a clearance from 1000000 of them were young people. fantastic here, 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 to listen. looking for the post them i'm very excited. wanted to do and to size my what's in the rights. what's in the right people in so

god mental to make nigeria greets and what doesn't, i mean i felt was still the needs the need for change. wasn't that high? what 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 please, now when will i do renew? i see that you're notting there. i want to ask you though. okay, there's some hope there's some extend 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, it does also contributed to load up apathy and a country model that 60 percent of young people in nigeria are unemployed. and we can compare that to a country that could literally 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 like 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 mean not even, and you read on entire ward can see at the entity as him up of young lanes. you and seen the drink st. right. i mean, and a lot of both your, my, i'm a lot of of the young i durians 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 add to the point about give so many and actually unemployed people, that it could be a country to complain when 153 and 9 speaking in policy. right? that's more than the population of the country now in the continent. one, another thing to note is that it meant insecurity across many 9. and then not you have around you know,

that what children who were born in 2009 we began, they'll be able to book in the next election. right. so you have to look at the death problems that young people have realized. you're finally going to have to both about many people. many people look like that's going to be the kids have to remember what me and the not where you're the most popular in the country, right. and then also young. presuppose them. all right, but the one thing that we can agree on for sure that most of the book as i think the 3 quarters of the new book, people, you know, some of my students were all last for example, last day for example, they will strike each month and that's right, was the 15th or the 16th. try that lecture that going on since 1999. you have

tried to 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 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 h yes, seen school better than the usual for years. and i, that's it. that many of them i and yeah, and the nice, you know, i think the nigerian university commission as also 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 high will spend more?

yes. then then i should be in the, in the school. so i think that's right. i love them. i didn't 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 support in ms. p. t o b y audits esl, 14 corklin. so fanatically, while the audits esl what's in did 2 dominant shirty candidates as well. so it's caught up was, it's spread, it depends on the turn out on the day of elections. it's that i'm sure that in few days we will be annoying. by the time we are able to analyze the numbers of people who of actually collect a debt, permanent votes as cut and which category did to actually belong to. i appreciate the no, i was go ahead, go ahead there am oh no, i was just gonna again through that point right there. sometimes, you know, does it work from the top of my direct your tendency to look at from one point?

what do you want to see? one of the country has one or 2 people 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 being generated by one of the candidates, right? people in the north or in the center of the country for example, have one preferences. so i think for me to know that because we are very weak and to find working and you know, it is the set seen, 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 cocoa component santee had to say, outlining some of the key challenges nigerians face. take a look. yeah, 40 tell yes i see to the upcoming with pitches to me and i will perform one election day. and typically how quickly that i make it simple to respond to that can issue has to do with the that you noticed in our notes that i guess and then also the official to use and not how not including the effect movement on election day. and the 3rd issue is to annuities the community and how widespread it will be on the election day and what i believe on the 10 out. and lastly, is this information, this information, and how the treat, willing to respond will react to force information disseminated election.

it 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 in to selections because information is actually being weaponized. and there is actually it's in line between the online and 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 did it offline and in a different, in different sets of way in this election was we are saying that people are not even, there are weaponized in information to glue. if i get candidates re i hear me not some spurious teens, some candidates up don. when we know they are not really achievable, he's been used to di legit, demise opposing candidates as well as institution which plays

a very important role. by the time you listen to court, you're talking about the bi mode of what's acquisition system. yeah, because now people do not even have trust in that system. people cannot seek to read from long write all the votes as register itself as a challenge, while they are as much as possible weaponized in modeling for mission 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 lesson. what he's a, what a money in the dice and your bunk key point government connect at all. i want to do

a study guide. you 1st, do you want to come when you know you cannot fix your own money? i was kind of gotten it. i mean, he asked the question there, rena, what's your answer? why just like is said the, the government access to deposit our own money and we can't even collect it. i but then it see to want to know that it is not the 1st time that this government will be doing such it's enquiry was our military had our state in 1080 or, and the same disastrous policy was in that, 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 boats . 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 it that think 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 mine will be high, but by is already on the week because of the easiest, i will mention adf, will be diet from aramark from. i don't 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 jobs are also going to be what's in the basement, is it a matter of most will to then and the fact that in one of the wards most pop up, our biggest biggest oil producers we didn't already went out was this was cassidy currently in the country? the fact that i'm the person who promised those i was going to right click corruption, get me to the country. i as i said, as the president and one of osha and even in march. so a lot of my gibbons, i am the right. thank you. so in the do the young person as well, what do you, does that matter most to me as the social eve? so i think that these are what i do and will be put in. i got and i'm glad they are appealing this line. i know 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 of the country where, you know, new park on every right. when might be someone african related to the for many in the neighbor had and electricity for 24 on the on the plan will have to be what? well, you know, even do just the mission way. you know, there's also the portability is happening everyday. for example, this cash flap and what is going to happen as a result of the outcome is going to be the bad people who are trying to draw up to the people going to be even more than truckload. you know, because it's going to tell them, for example, i mean the need,

my bad one now you asked me to bring people that kind of withdrawing, right? going to be something that we have to call and i to many people in the lecture you're going to get dc. and it doesn't really seem much like it's on our 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 one that you mentioned. you know, um how many electrons are quite dense. there's a lot of 10 station in the country currently. we have a lot of is used to work combats 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

. i wouldn't insure the lead out that, that you about to show the god in the past that a lot of criminals are actually digital person in different part of the country you didn't use. so, but she and no longer in control, i didn't get any. i mean, conclude i couldn't, you know, not any time and, and i think your audio is 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 are also in the slamming state affiliates of course. vocal 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 know, 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 she may 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 patrick of society to get to you. she says it's been worth the struggle. it gives woman it gives. so i'd daughters and gives us says to the aunties, them, what does the confidence that to yes or sole, ah, to war 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 occupy higher offices. and i am sod because if you look at the 2019 elections as opposed to between sprint elections, you will see that those in decline in the number of women political candidates who are coming up in the political, very nigeria, which means that they said there's an issue if that could be a reduction the sort of an increase i recently as well, you had a tax on and that cannot be, oh sure, you know, ah, you can just that to them isn't a talks on the, you know, women leaders and political candidates will at recently, a woman you know, was queued in cartoon. i went out the label, patsy was assassinated and so that's a little odd. logical balance get to was women in nigeria. they're not usually seen as people who should lead someone. and i'm thought that we have less women were contesting for political seats on the other. and you have women like these. and

although a wonderful woman what, and showing that the stand your ground, the respective of the political climate, to spread people that are political systems are gone by good fathers and all of that that still stand in the ground to ensure adequately that women adequately represent it. so i does in school and what, what this women because the, which in the future thank you. i had had that. yeah, i want to add that will be very, very and put them to a one b to me. i mean this one to one and again i had expressed about 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 go. oh yeah, because the mantra that was being so it was not just a generic and of course i appreciate you ending on that. no. that 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, with

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