ABSTRACT & RÉSUMÉ & ZUSAMMENFASSUNG : Presidential elections will be held in Nigeria on February 25, 2023. According to opinion polls, three candidates have realistic chances of winning. First, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, 70, represents the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party. He is known as a political 'godfather' in the South West. Second, Atiku Abubakar, 76, is running on behalf of the main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP). He has run for the presidency five times and lost them all. Third, Peter Obi, 61, he is candidate for the little-known Labor Party and hopes to break the two-party system that has ruled the country since the end of military rule. Nigerians, like neighbouring peoples in Benin and Togo, were obsessed with the ...