Nigeria’s 2023 Elections: A Youthful Revolution? – Analysis

By Charles A. Ray*

(FPRI) — Since its return to democracy in 1999, Nigeria has been ruled by a male gerontocracy. Muhammadu Buhari, the incumbent president, is eighty, and only 2.6 percent of the seats in Nigeria’s parliament are held by women. People under thirty constitute 70 percent of Nigeria’s population but, until...