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who will be nigeria, next leader, the photos in africa, most populous country, are about to elect a new president and a new national assembly. but what's a plate this time around? and is democracy strengthening in nigeria? this is inside story. ah . hello and welcome to the program. i'm rob matheson on saturday voters in nigeria go to the polls to elect a new president, but africa's largest democracy at its biggest economy as being suffering more violence as that ballot approaches several police officers have been killed in the last few days in separate attacks by suspected rebels in the southeast and

a senate candidate from the opposition labor party was shot dead late on wednesday by unknown assailants in southeastern, in new state, with nigeria as dead rising, and taxis failing to raise enough cash, or how much bahati successor is going to face tough financial constraints, 18 candidates on the ballot, but for are getting the most attention because of their chances to win or forced themselves into a run off on the digits, reports from a boucher ah peter gregory or be a former governor of number of state is the youngest at the front runners to be nigeria, next president. his campaign message seems to resonate with young voters who say they are tired of the politics of the world. oh, we want to secure and unite niger. one to 12 from nigeria form is present cost because consumption to

productive coach a successful businessman, he broke away from the party that made him governor, and one that chose him must a presidential running mate to lead the labor party spread national campaign. rugby also cocoa, so has a similar shift from the major parties to one that doesn't control and in legislature or state then and p p candidate is a for my defense minister and was governor of nigeria. second was popular state county for 8 years. the election now is between the big names who have destroyed this country and people who are looking for an alternative. the 2010 to 3 election is in business as usual. the 2 new contenders and their supporters believe they can and see the governing party just like in 2015. when the opposition one, they'll point to say they can only day by votes from the main political parties. some one is expected to, to force or run off and with skilful negotiations when or even decide who becomes

president this is a men generous opposition is trying to storm a former governor of nigeria, commercial and business capital. bola, i'm attainable, is credited with transforming league of state and restructuring its economy. the governing party like barrow says he wants to replicate this at the national level, security economy, foreign policy. the secondary builds in relationship given new either country assurance be levine is sac sushi of contract both to anyone or be are meeting the most of a believe by some nigerians at the presidency. should head south after being held by a northerner for 8 years. ah, supporters of the former vice president at equal wicker se nigeria democracy must not be defined by a regional sentiment, a retired customs officer. mister booker is

a successful businessman with interests in manufacturing, in service industries. he wasn't available for interview the manifest sinay dollars of all the political parties are similar, but there are at least new contenders for the presidency, which in itself could make politicians in africa, most populous country, more accountable to their voters. i'm it edris. al jazeera apple jo. ah. okay, let's go to i guess, while johnny me in lagos is cassius belo than a political analyst, and broadcaster who had callow africa. news in meadow green is hassan and my inner a special assistant on sustainable development goals for the people's democratic party. thank you very much. indeed for joining us on al jazeera and i would like to start with kasey bargain, please. there are 93500000 registered voters in nigeria, our nigerian voters actually enthusiastic about these elections. thank you for me

on the so. ah, absolutely. irene's already you know b, b, a look at for tool that they are the seats are february. so much are waiting to cut their boat are probably thinking that yes, we can have a new government in nigeria. you know, anything that has to do with lex and it's about a new receipt. so they're looking for, they're ready and they are. and to see us think about it as we speak, hudson and my in a, your especially advisor to article are back hard. now. he has been part of the nigerian political process for many years, given the fight. the nigerians apparently are looking for change. is he actually in a position to be able to do that given the fact that some people might say he is part of the problem rather than part of the solution. and we're looking at what's happening and humans are clamoring for change of the situation that we found

ourselves in this country. and then this is take of great depression that we have found ourselves. and you know, you can attribute it to last. it is after current william patsy to the point is, is, you know, there has helps norwin for instance, schools in the border. deb my income by state in so many young people from doing business. and you know, there are so many policies that this government have introduced that has gotten people that has eradicated the middle class. so what we now have is to return the call to reach versus the poor to which and the point in the country. so people are clamoring for the change of their situation and not necessarily a change in phase, because if you look at all of the content that are contested to become president, they've all been around for a while. and they have also how to different positions in different a it is but also land usaa,

especially young engineers and also with an engineer. they are looking at someone that has been there and has done it before and look at, you know, the fact that there look at it for lindsay when, who are the vice president of the country. and he was also the head of the economic team and look at it. great. boom dementia has experience during that time. i saw many of us went at went to a pico fact. because at this moment it also, and it was also got into the understanding that the public to men gina is so deep rooted that you cannot begin to unravel it. and so in the day and as such, that is why you know, his excellency be someone of experience is the best person that can do the job at this very moment. that will come in with a change. i'm able to drive to say that we can bring in l. u o do. he's a national spokesperson for the to campaign. that's from the i'll progressives congress on behalf of bala on to no good, sir. thank you very much. indeed for being with us. the candidate, terrible, i'm

a to, nobody said to carry a lot of influence in the southwest, but he's 70 years old. how much do you think that he can relate to young people in nigeria? i'm in which a co age is a man of innovation has been very close to all of the development happening in our own country on the world at large. it's very, very much in talk to present it is, is the man who introduced innovation a lot during his yes. as them coming up. they got it. so i mean, he's very much in tor tongue. he been, it be without people. i mean, you see you mark up account special. he's based on his track record is constantly in talk with young old army people from different diverse background on them. so she asked that of many is, is very tight to be alex yet he talks city differently,

progressing, passing by logan. we are talking about a country which has been for many years, right by violence. its economy is struggling and we heard asana my inner st. say that people are looking for a continuation of the same. are people really wanting more of the same violence and economic struggle that they have perhaps seen in the past? i understand about 40 percent of people are under 34 an hour and an unemployed. well, some quite of, fortunately that the situation is like that, but um, i must see that the corridor, nutrition and rich, right? it's best from the look of things. ah, we all know that when it comes to lead the sheet or you can do is to try to best, let's say, the fact that there are a lot of things that the governments can do better. because so

the best thing that can happen to nigerians is to have a great governance are but so for so i must see it's not a bad deal because when you look at the whole thing, i always appreciate where we got things from a brother. but we can, we can conclude that a, well, it's not been, it is not been good. you know, we've been having leaks in no way that we can see it. but my judas would be to have a title government that will bring suckle to sort of lindy's, i believe if the way things are now, if government gets to, you know, money one way or the other like the, the,

the quality, what is the that the government's a strange will bring to the people because to manage to work around it. but it's, it's not a basset. nigerians would be happy to have it on good. you know, i'm not a not moment from now and we'll see, let me ask you about the role of for peter over here, who was formerly of the p d p. but as now of the labor party, he seems to be collecting a lot of social media support. he seems to be getting a lot of support from young people ab, how do you see his role? and indeed that of robin was a mussa conquest. so of the new nigeria people's party was also a presidential candidate. is it or is there a chance that one of them, given that people are looking for change apparently? is that a chance that one of them could actually be, come president of the country and start essentially with a clean slate? or do you think that they are just going to serve to split the vote and fragment, the votes of the other candidates were for, for, for the 2 middle,

from now on sites the, the popular, you know, ah, we tell the, ah, reference to the popular and then try on their own best and then i look up the we have all of it before. read them looking at the front. there are the you are, you know, really be in governance or the top level are birds are the submission of and east, east. some are difficult if you look at the big chance that we are the legs of a to walker, the leg or not. but i mean to be the guys that we can call super week, you know, every week when it comes to politics, what console? sure. to beat obese in it, momentum. seriously. burt, me, you know,

these guys are the, the so called the attic where now our bulletin is so strong from what sites you know, looking at the, the iranian based boys are a strong guy. you know, and that's, that was, you are what the, the, the northerners are be toby as rock east, strongest rock and it goes within a certain areas within the less c r, tackled another, a site and down our western nigeria. in my want to give a kind of a sympathy, good for he, but definitely i see a term, it's more of a be a difficult being for those to back. but you know, ah, what qualities think come out in a way. you don't respect barney though it might be before that, although i wonder, i want to ask you about terrible arm and a tenable verb. his see,

his slogan is emmy. look on, which i understand translates into it's my turn. how tough is it gonna be for him? to convince people that he should get the job just because it says he says he should. okay, it's not really top floor. well, i understand that does been taken out of context and blown out of proportion. what it basically minute. so, i mean, you at the time was talking to his party, delegates, whom he agrees into, to point to as to his investment in their people. is investment in politics in the defense of democracy in m a poor, the democracy of democratic who democratic principles and support in other than it is with the glee. what he said was about is talk to, to get in a return, you know, some support is going to odessa and i mean, it, it is really about that is my body's track record. i mean, there's not been any one among the candidates,

roddy who's less contributor more to in, in a fight for democracy or defense of democracy. you know, progressive governance like what i meant in a book. legos. it like, um, i mean it's no one it's, it's been his data with potential but never really up until 19 i, when he became governor and it is been able to, you let the state and you know, toner out the economy, fortune of the state. that is good from be just one of the states and, and you had to the 5th economy in africa and he's been on the study group since then. there's been consistent consistency in economy. good on them such as it goes, i mean, he's seen as many as nearly 25000000 insurance moving from different parts of the country and totally goes because it's, it's one state where everyone can, you know, leave freely, are now and the livid and go up are the alleged is this is i want to be last, so you are my, and i forgive me for interrupting you, but i do want to bring in hudson, am i in there? because obviously you were reacting to what

a you were saying. but i do want to make the point that article i back out, your candidate has lost the race for the present, steve presidency 5 times already. and yet he still seems to think that he's going to be able to do at this time what, what's different this time to the previous times. so what's different this time is because he is the person that is needed for the job. and he's not the 1st person to contact infections and lose. the current president of the country has contested election about 4 times, you know, before he finally got elected into power. i think if that should show edit them is to show the power that is the man at the level because you would agree with me because it is a good thing, but i cannot help. but listen to me when he talks about he's candidate while i'm attending. excellent people, i'm attainable and you know, have been as cold in liver. i wasn't not calling because i wasn't killing me. so i have lived in here and i think i have,

i have the right to speak about god. and they've got to have been pitch capital. they've got, have been met us capital. ligan's is practically positioned in a way that it has caught. and it had. so many opportunities to either speak to you right now now got it all the congested. lagos is one of the what places to live in . and also the security illegal is not a great. i want you to believe. and also, i think and also did you know kind of tug look at, you know, which i probably caught at bill as well. i want one to speak about, you know, the anticipated of you know, epilepsy, but i'm attainable, i feel like it's going to be bad to pay these to the international media. i'm not just talk about the things that he has achieved with all of the opportunities they've given out work on that, you know, with the willing position. i should have been better than you know,

there's room for it to be better than than what it is that well because it's below average at best, as i thought to thank you very much, but i want to get away from the kind of campaigning element of this cassie me, i want to talk about the state of democracy that there is in nigeria. we're talking about a situation now which is unusual and niger in that none of the candidates is already in poles 2. there are none of them is an incumbent president. and none of them appears to be a former military leader. what difference do you think that is going to make to the state of democracy within nigeria? yeah, i think that is our opposite cba ah story. i'm a c or a for now julia. it's written, these are, are, we are, have been the major, the politicians ill arm any moment from now. so ever emerges. so each of it's a good story for us is on us sickness. a right now our

message, it's nigeria as really, really come to that democratic process that we are talking about. we don't, we believe in our military kind of aberration. so we're adding these, there dies from a bean or a business man. and, you know, coming into our proper w at a level of residency, it's a, it's a positive story for us. and a nigerians will be up before that we'll be looking at. that's why i said, you know, we'll be looking forward to that. i'm in and one of them was coming from a different background, a corridor residential or even do a once a and e don i what if would be great if

we meet we bring things up in the beat was that k r c o key from our own b as barbara from our bond background. tell me a secret that we want to channel in new for a new nigeria. so the idea is will be looking forward to our person as the president and i, you are. do i want to ask you about your role as part of the a, b, c, a p c rebirth group here? obviously we're focusing on the younger element within the p. c. what is it you're trying to achieve that? ok, i thought, you know, if you see was from 10 years ago as an moga mission of the cost, the 10th or the ethical parties which are busy, clear regional parties at the time. and i'm in wells, we go into a power. it has been a bit of challenges trying to, you know, in breeza ideology as the progressive party, lloyd look, look with the woody. no later than we have members of different background or not.

so it, we, we seem to be, you know, i did time diverting a bit from our call. you know, i do ology. and as the old people in the party, young people in the country who are members of the party were, i mean, we have the deluxe of us valuable. i'm, it didn't go to look up to, i mean, a democrat and the progressive leader. and we thought it was right for to hold our lead us. we did a party accountable, and is sure that we abide by around close to, to shut out particles to shana a bite bow gateway, or provide level playing field for every member of the party at for you to know an excess on a contest. and that i thought the peculiar bed was about done successfully. we're able to push for 2 conventions and them wonder, let to the air was caught images of our national committee. then the president's up primary conversion. i let i want to pick one. i forget me for you, but i want to pick you up on the point that you're at, that in fact,

everybody appears to be making, which is that young people, the votes of young people, are going to be key in this that this is something that is absolutely crucial to whether or not people succeed in their selection and obviously earlier that you are representative of that. i know. hi. so now you are a representative of that as well. earlier. let me ask you this are paula. i'm a tim untenable, given the fact he's 70 years old, if he becomes president, what are the chances? do you think that he is actually no matter how progressive he says he's gonna be one of the chances that he's actually going to be open to eager young people within his party trying to change things. i mean, he's surrounded by young people. the book of, if we're doing the ground of 40 a young people i, he's promised in his a manifesto to renewed who you know, he is, is promised to hover night cabinet positions for people between the age of 18 and 49. and i mean, he's talked about getting young people involved in it literacy, both at parties level and government level it. we are very confident that he will

do it because while he was governor of legos it, it brought a lot of young people clues or mental them. most of them are nationally does not that we were younger correctly. busy governor of the gusty was an 8, a young man, cassim. let me ask you, i'm about to do this element of young people because i'm the, the bit of research that i've been doing seems to suggest that the influence of young people is going to be determined in terms of turned out in terms of, you know, if if there are, if there's a fewer to a lower turned out, but they are predominantly younger voters in certain candidates, are going to benefit from that. and how significant in this particular election, do you think is the vote of young people in the 1st instance work from the local team. the young people get now are coming up, you know, gadri mean it's been in a c momentum when it comes to young people, you know, thinking that they need to do it right. this time different that you're

a great president. so the be active more it front be, are ready, and i think are this time around. the avoidance definitely comes up because div, you can see from the look of things you haven't these guys, you know, playing important role from what it goes a long week on like before, but my tell them middle p, it's not, it's not, you know, your time going to do something, but now played very, quite well to roll. you can see some of them, you know, now, you know, i've been a candidate so either different ball game for the younger ones. and now looking at see a list the all by the aren't and they're working. they are not so joking these them around. i can see all the local things via super ready to bring that

change that we are looking for. so the board will be very, very significant. this tamara and also i want to ask you about the participant participation of women, how much of an impact or the votes of women to have in the selection. i feel women are becoming more politically involved in the elections and then julia and i think that thanks to you so much in 5, i mean with as gender equality and bill work that local and g o and national and you have been doing to says parents who went on the importance of getting involved and also i think women have also seen that been involved in politics despite its challenges, is the only way to get heard in this democratic setting that we found ourselves. so i think the movements participate in politics is great. but then when it comes to women elected leaders, that's where the problem, you know,

that's where the problem is. because at the same time we keep seeing that less and less men contest to be cook context for elected positions. and that is what that is, what we some i think it just goes back to speak to the difficult, kevin, that women find themselves in whenever dimension and politics causing just very briefly, we only have a few seconds left. let me ask you, given everything that you are seeing about the way that this election is being campaigned for on what nigeria has been over a lot been through over the last few years. do you think we're going to see a different nigeria in about 2 years time? very briefly, if you could absolutely. teams who will get better. i'm very optimistic whatsoever my these things will get better. i'm optimistic nigeria, we'd be a great country because that's what people are looking for. you know, we have some challenges, but i, you know,

the best doesn't happen to rather the countries to go out there, go to the right back to that next level. a country like ours the, you know, the change we can meet. so we may do is going to be better in the next few years, 6 months a year, or let's see that $2000.00 and thank you very much indeed for that. i apologize for interrupting you. unfortunately, of course time is against us, but thank you very much indeed. and i see you and thanks to our other 2 guess half and m i n a. and as you do and thank you to you too for watching, you can see the program again any time by visiting our website. i'll do 0 dot com for further discussion. go to a facebook page, that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a insight story for me, rob matheson and the whole team here. bye for now. ah

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