2023: Amaechi-Elrufai Campaign Posters Flood Abuja Street

The battle for 2023 presidential election has started in earnest, as Amaechi-Elrufai posters flooded the street of Abuja.

The campaign posters, which have the face of the Minister of Transportation, Right Honourable Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi for President, also have the face of Mallam Nasir Elrufai, the Governor of Kaduna State as the running mate and Vice Presidential candidate.

One of the posters was titled “the People’s choice” while another had the message “Today may not be the best, but tomorrow will be better.”

All the posters show they are being sponsored by the National Consolidation Movement but they did not have the logo of any political parties.

At the APC National Secretariat, many of the staff refused to speak to record but a few of those who spoke off camera believe the pasting of posters at this time for whatever political purpose was clearly an act of desperation, a violation of the nation’s electoral laws and capable of distracting President Muhammadu Buhari from tackling the challenges facing the country.

“The posters at this time is capable of igniting more political tension at a time the government is struggling to calm tension and solve pressing needs,” they said

Both Hon. Chibuike Amaechi and Mallam Elrufai are members of the ruling APC. Since the return of the country to democracy in 1999, Hon. Amaechi is one of the very few Nigerians who has not been out of political and public office.

He was a member and Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly from 1999 to 2007 after which he was sworn in as Governor of the State, following his victory at the Supreme Court which declared him as the rightful candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and there removed Chief Celestine Omehia from office.