Adewole Ebenezer Adebayo (50)

Adewole Adebayo (born January 8, 1972) is a Nigerian lawyer and founder of KAFTAN TV. He is currently running for President of Nigeria under the Social Democratic Party (Nigeria). Adewole Adebayo began his legal career as a litigation lawyer at Tunji Abayomi and Co. in Lagos, Nigeria. After two years of legal practice, he founded his own law firm, Adewole Adebayo & Co., House of Law, in 2002. In 2016, Adewole Adebayo established KAFTAN TV. Adebayo sponsors nearly 2,000 young Nigerians in Nigerian and foreign tertiary institutions, in addition to numerous others he has financially empowered across the country. Adebayo is a public affairs commentator who provides advice on national issues on occasion and participates in Nigerian politics as a member of the Third Force. On January 15, 2022, Adewole Adebayo declared his intention to run for the office of Nigerian president. He is running for president of Nigeria in the 2023 Nigerian general election under the Social Democratic Party (Nigeria).

Ojei Princess Chichi (44)

She is the only woman in the race alongside 17 men of “timber and calibre,” as Nigerians always love to say. She is Ojei Princess Chichi of APM. The prominent Delta Stateborn politician and astute administrator, who was schooled both in Nigeria and overseas, is a corporate finance specialist and the executive director of Nuel Ojei Holdings. Chichi’s emergence as an APM presidential candidate too was legendary, as the hitherto presidential standard bearer of her party, Yusuf Mamman Dantalle, had to pull out to make way for the Amazon to slug it out with the men.

Nwanyanwu

Dan Nwanyanwu Mni, OFR, is a Nigerian politician, businessman, and lawyer who was chairman of the Labour Party (LP) from 2004 until 2014. He worked with Union Bank between 1979 and 1993, and during his appointment, he held several roles within the National Union of Banks, Insurance, and Financial Institutions Employees (NUBIFIE), rising to the role of National Treasurer and subsequently National President from 1989. The latter appointment automatically made him a member of the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). Mr. Dan Nwanyanwu has emerged as the presidential candidate of the Zenith Labor Party (ZLP).

Yabagi Yusuf Sani, known mostly as YYSani or Jakardan Nupe, meaning “ambassador of Nupe,” is a Nigerian politician, energy and crude oil expert, and the current National Chairman of the Action Democratic Party (ADP). He was a presidential candidate in the 2019 Nigerian general election. Yabagi started as an administrative officer and depot chief in the PPMC Depot in Kano in 1980 under the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Sani began his political ambitions in 1991; he was also a founding member of (ANPP), and member board of trustees of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANP). He was a presidential candidate in the 2019 Nigerian general election. He is now the flag bearer of the party for the 2023 presidential election.

Abdumalik Ado-Ibrahim (58)

youNg ProgressiVe Party (yPP)

Ado-Ibrahim Abdulmalik is a Nigerian-born businessman and politician who is a Kogi prince and the founder of Bicernergy. A son of the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland in Kogi State, Malik AdoIbrahim, emerged as the presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP). Malik is a businessman and founder of the Reset Nigeria Initiative and One Team Arrows A20. He studied in the US and the UK, where his area of study was mainly automobiles. Prince Malik was educated at a private school in England, graduated from a British military academy, and holds a master’s degree in marketing from the University of Southern California.

Peter Nnanna Umeadi

all ProgressiVe graND alliaNce (aPga)

The presidential candidate of the All People’s Party (APP) is Nnadi Charles Osita, 49; qualifications: FSLC and SSCE; and the vicepresidential candidate is Hamisu Isah, 45; qualifications: FSLC and SSCE. Not much is known about him, and there is very little information online.

Peter Umeadi is a party chieftain, politician, and a former Chief Judge of the Anambra State judiciary. Umeadi, a Professor of Law at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka Following his retirement as the state’s Chief Judge in March 2019, Umeadi, a Professor of Law at the University of Nigeria, joined the party in his Nri Ward II in Anaocha, Anambra. He has the capacity, sense of history, humility, and self-effacement to reconcile and weld ethnic groups together. He emerged as the presidential candidate in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) primary election, which was held on Wednesday, June 9.