Nigeria formally regarded as the Giant of Africa has indeed falling from its past Glories.
Having over billions of people from different tribes is yet to set up the motion for her upcoming general election.
To say that Nigeria is a complex country with myriad of problems is not in dispute and complex as these problems are. Nigeria today is like a house threatened with imminent collapse.
The question is who will lead this country to attain its victory? Who will come forth independently and cleanse our Country from all its ills? Who is passionate enough to make a New and upgraded Nigeria? Who will be Nigeria's president?
Let's talk President Jonathan and Major-General Muhammadu Buhari the two main contenders for the 2015 presidential election.
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR, BNER, GCON (born 20 November 1957) from Bayelsa State to a family of canoe makers married to Patience Faka with two children. He is a Christian, and he comes from the Ijaw ethnic group. Jonathan holds a B.Sc. degree in Zoology in which he attained Second Class Honors. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Hydrobiology and Fisheries biology, and a PhD degree in Zoology from the University of Port Harcourt. Before he entered politics in 1998, .has has been President of Nigeria since 2010. Prior to his role as President, he served as Governor of Bayelsa State from 2005 to 2007 after the impeachment of Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha and as Vice-President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010. He succeeded the late Umaru Yar'Adua. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Can PDP retain their reign?
In 2007, President Jonathan declared his assets worth a total of ₦ 295,304,420 Naira ($1,845,652 USD)
Muhammadu Buhari
Born on the 17th of December 1942 in Katsina state, Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari is a Nigerian politician who served as the military ruler of Nigeria (December 31, 1983 - August 27, 1985).
In 1983, Major-General Buhari and Major-General Tunde Idiagbon were selected to lead the country by middle and high-ranking military officers after a successful military coup d’état that overthrew civilian President Shehu Shagari on December.
In 1985, Buhari was himself overthrown in a coup led by General Ibrahim Babangida on August 27th, and other members of the ruling Supreme Military Council (SMC) ostensibly, because he insisted on investigating allegations of fraudulent award of contracts in the Ministry of Defense.
Buhari contested the Presidential election as the candidate of the All Nigeria People's Party on 2003.
On 18th December 2006, Gen. Buhari was nominated as the consensus candidate of the All Nigeria People's Party.
His main challenger in the 2007 April polls was the ruling PDP's Umaru Yar'Adua, who is also from the same state - Katsina and he lost. In March 2010, Buhari left the ANPP for the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), a party that he had helped to found.
He said that he had supported foundation of the CPC "as a solution to the debilitating, ethical and ideological conflicts in my former party the ANPP".
Buhari was the CPC Presidential candidate in the 16 April 2011 general election, running against incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the People's Democratic Party (PDP),Mallam Nuhu Ribadu of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), and Ibrahim Shekarau of ANPP.
They were the major contenders among 20 contestants. He was running on an anti-corruption platform and pledged to remove immunity protections from government officials. He also gave support to enforcement of Sharia law in Nigeria's northern states, which had previously caused him political difficulties among Christian voters in the country's south.
However, he remains a "folk hero" to some for his vocal opposition to corruption. Buhari won 12,214,853 votes, coming second to the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP, who polled 22,495,187 votes and was declared the winner candidate.
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