A new report by The United States Institute of Peace has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari is less likely to be defeated at the 2019 election. USIP noted that though many Nigerians stated that his government had not met their expectations, this may not cost the All Progressives Congress its hold on power.
The USIP report contradicted the two predictions by The Economist magazine, which stated that Buhari would be defeated in the February poll. The USIP report read, “Many Nigerians feel their hopes have not been met. Some respondents suggest the electorate is sufficiently disappointed that voter apathy will be greater in 2019 than it was in 2015, with the unifying narrative of change that helped elect the APC in 2015 much less compelling as a factor in mobilising the electorate, and perceptions that another defeat of the presidential incumbent is less likely to happen in 2019.”
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