Several Nigerian writers too have proffered a cautious analysis of both the APC and the PDP candidates, Muhammadu Buhari, and Atiku Abubakar, respectively. We should not vote for them anymore; we should be voting against them, their politics, and their conduct in the past four years as an affirmation that we the people will not be taken for granted by these bamboozling rulers. I know that since the options are just the APC and the PDP, not voting for the APC’s Buhari is an indirect suggestion that people should vote for the PDP’s Atiku. A vote for them should not be construed as a vote for what they represent but a vote against. If we keep up the habit of removing a non-functioning candidate every election cycle, we will inch to the point where political parties will be forced to feature candidates that we will no longer have to hold our noses to vote for as a vote against their opponent.

Source: Punch February 13, 2019 23:03 UTC