NigeriaDecides2023: Five factors that could determine Nigeria’s elections – CDD

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has highlighted five factors that could determine the success of Nigeria’s 2023 general elections. The civil society organisation also listed the key players and their stakes of winning or losing in the polls, using facts and figures from Nigeria’s electoral law and other sources.

It listed the five factors, which it described as the ‘five I’s” as Identity, Insecurity, Institutions, Information Disorder, and Inter and intra-party contestation.

These factors, as analysed by the CDD, would ensure the peaceful conduct of the elections if well addressed. But our democracy might come under threat if these factors are ignored by the authorities, it stated.

Read the full report below:

CDD ELECTION ANALYSIS CENTRE – POLITICS BRIEF

• To win the presidential election, a candidate must secure 25 per cent of the votes in two-thirds of Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, as well as a simple majority. Failure…