{"id":32783,"date":"2019-02-21T22:32:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32783"},"modified":"2019-02-21T22:32:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:32:39","slug":"is-democracy-the-answer-to-nigerias-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32783","title":{"rendered":"Is democracy the answer to Nigeria&#8217;s woes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"84.3258196721\">\n<p>Millions of <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/nigeria.html\">Nigerians<\/a> finally get to vote for a new leader on Saturday after the election was postponed by a week.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever wins will have to address at least three pressing issues &#8211; the sluggish economy, security problems and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected to be a <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/interactive\/2019\/02\/nigeria-elections-2019-190207142404188.html\">tight race<\/a> between President Muhammadu Buhari, who is seeking a second term, and Atiku Abubakar, the main opposition candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari has promised to fight corruption, but his opponents have focused on what they say has been his failure to fix the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The main contenders made their final appeal for votes on the last day of campaigning on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Will elections make any difference?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Martine Dennis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Idayat Hassan &#8211; director of the Centre for Democracy and Development<\/p>\n<p>Antony Goldman &#8211; CEO of Promedia Consulting, former senior Africa analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit<\/p>\n<p>Fisayo Soyombo &#8211; winner of the 2017 Nigerian Investigative Journalist of the Year Award<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Nigerians finally get to vote for a new leader on Saturday after the election was postponed by a week. Whoever wins will have to address at least three pressing issues &#8211; the sluggish economy, security problems and corruption. It is expected to be a tight race between President Muhammadu Buhari, who is seeking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}