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2015 Presidential Election: A Choice Between an Unimpressive Present and a Tainted Past. Femi Ojo

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                                               Photo credit to Sahara Reporters Nigerian Electorates are in a puzzling time. Our country is in a mystifying period not because of the dwindling price of oil at the international market but primarily because this is an election year. This is a year when Nigerians are expected to go to the polls to vote for a new President who will be in power for the next four years as the constitution of the land stipulates. At the last count, we have well up to about fourteen different candidates from diverse political parties running for the office of the President. These candidates are different characters from known, little- known, popular and un-popular political parties. Among these political parties are the two leading parties whose political activities have gained so much local and international attentions. These two leading parties have been in the news for both good and bad reasons, hyping their political mantra like a smal