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Grégoire SAUVAGE

Can Nigeria’s Peter Obi ride his newfound momentum all the way to presidency?

Nigerian Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi looks on during a campaign rally in Lagos on February 11, 2023. © Pius Utomi Ekpei, AFP

The rise of Peter Obi in the campaign for Nigeria's presidential election on February 25 has shaken up the country's politics, hitherto dominated by two major parties since the end of military rule in 1999. But analysts say that Obi still faces an uphill struggle.

Promising a different way of doing things, Obi hopes to defeat the two favourites and political heavyweights from traditional parties: Atiku Aboubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

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