#NIGERIADECIDES: LIST OF POLITICIANS WHO HAVE DECLARED INTENTION TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2023

Ovation Magazine magazine publisher Dele Momodu is on a shortlist of Nigerians who have openly declared their intention to succeed Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.

I am very ready to run for the President of Nigeria due to the complexities of running a heterogeneous country like Nigeria," the celebrity journalist who, last year, joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), told Arise TV on Monday.

"I have studied the template of MKO Abiola and the problem is that we have leaders who are not accomplished which is the crux of the problems."

On the same day Momodu signited interest in Aso Rock, former Lagos governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu met with Buhari in Abuja.

"I have informed the president of my ambition but I have not informed Nigerians yet, I am still consulting," the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) told journalists after the meeting.

Barely 24 hours after Tinubu's trip to Aso Rock, Ebonyi governor Dave Umahi said he too has informed the president he intend to run for the highest office in the land.

Umahi, a former PDP governor who jumped ship to APC, said Buhari told him to consult widely. Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) former deputy governor was the first to openly join the race.

"I will run because the people matter." Moghalu who ran in 2019 on the platform of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), said on May 31, 2021

Moghalu has since switched to the African

Democratic Congress (ADC).

Former Abia governor Orji Uzo Kalu has also indicated a "conditional interest in the office of the president. Kalu said he'd run if APC zones its presidential ticket to the South.

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