At one end of the stage stands the official winner Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose victory was announced in the darkest hour before dawn on 1 March; at the other the thwarted opposition candidates Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi who are railing against systemic electoral fraud and threaten legal appeals to the Supreme Court (Dispatches 28/2/23 Tinubu edges to Presidential win as opposition and activists dispute the results)...

Older and more conservative voters are said to favour the veteran candidates Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose official age is 70 of the ruling All Progressives' Congress or Atiku Abubakar 76 of the opposition People's Democratic Party...

Yet the naira crisis could disrupt all the frontline candidates in the presidential elections: Tinubu as well as Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the previously insignificant Labour Party...

Ignoring exchange rate fluctuations Buhari's successor – whether Bola Tinubu (APC) Atiku Abubakar (People's Democratic Party) or Peter Obi (Labour Party) – could inherit an official debt stock more than double – in nominal terms – the N35...

The other major candidate Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) is yet to respond to Chatham House's invitation ahead of the elections on 25 February (AC Vol 64 No 1 Election noise louder but signals weaker)...

A widespread view of Tinubu and the PDP's Atiku Abubakar as oligarchs profiting from decades of professional politics could rebound against them...

Of the presidential hopefuls former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar for the People's Democratic Party (PDP) not only promises major privatisations exchange rate reform and gradually to remove the fuel subsidy he also says he is prepared to request Nigeria's creditors agree to 'debt forgiveness or cancellation' and could suggest a 'flexible payment plan' for domestic creditors...