25 February 2023
There are four major parties (given alphabetically below.) The Presidential candidates for each of the parties are:
| Party | Presidential candidate | Vice-Presidential candidate |
| All Progressives Congress |  Bola Tinubu |  Kashim Shettima |
| Labour Party |  Peter Obi |  Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed |
| New Nigeria Peoples Party |  Rablu Kwankwaso |  Isaac Idahosa |
| People’s Democratic Party |  Atiku Abubakar |  Ifeanyi Okowa |
General Notes:
- President of Nigeria: Muhammadu Buhari (2015-2023) from All Progressives Congress party.
He is a retired Nigerian Army major general who served as the country’s military head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985. He ran unsuccessfully for Presidency in 2003, 2007 and 2011. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of APC for the 2015 general elections and defeated the then incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. This was the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost a general election.
In February 2019, Buhari was re-elected, defeating his closest rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
- Nigerian Presidential Elections
On 25th February 2023 will also be held elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives. On 11 March, elections to Governors of 28 States along with the elections to the Houses of Assembly of all the 36 states are also scheduled. Elections in two States for Governors will be scheduled in late 2023. Along with these will be held elections for any re-runs, that may be required by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
BRIEF BACKGROUND of Candidates:
Tinubu was Governor of Lagos State (1999-2007) and has excellent infrastructure in Lagos and all-round progress of the State to his credit.
Atiku Abubakar was elected as the Governor of Adamawa State in 1998. In the Presidential Elections of 1999, he was the candidate for Vice-Presidentship on the slate of PDP. Olusegun Obasanjo was the PDP’s Presidential candidate in 1999. From 1999-2007, Atiku worked as the Vice-President.
Peter Gregory Obi is a successful businessman, who succeeded in Politics by getting elected as the Governor of Anambra State in 2006 and 2010. He earned a reputation as an honest politician, who used State funds frugally. A large number of social-media savvy young treat Obi as the messiah for Nigeria’s evils.
He has changed parties four time and switched from PDP to Labour, a few days before the primary of PDP, where Atiku Abubakar was elected as the PDP’s candidate. He is a devout Catholic, whereas the candidates of PDP and APC are Muslims. He is an Igbo and it is difficult for an Igbo to get elected as President of Nigeria because Igbos are numerically a much smaller tribe as compared with Hausas and Yorubas.
Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the NNPP candidate, was Governor of Kano State (1999-2003 and 2011-15). He was also Defence Minister of Nigeria (2003-07). He is usually dressed in in red cap and a flowing white kaftan. His fan club is known as the Red Cap movement and it has remained loyal to him as he moved in 2013 from PDP to APC and again when he moved from APC to NNPP.
Before joining politics, he worked in Kano’s Water & Engineering Agency. He had qualified as a Water Engineer, with higher education in UK and India.