Nigerian ex-minister and Chibok girls champion to run for president

Ezekwesili, 55, a former vice president for Africa at the World Bank, said she would run as the candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN). Nigeria's presidential election is scheduled to take place in February 2019. President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office in 2015, has been selected by the ruling party as its candidate while the main opposition People's Democratic Party selected former vice president Atiku Abubakar at its convention on Sunday.[L8N1WN0G8] "I want to run for, and win, the 2019 presidential election to serve and put the citizens first by mobilizing and taking decisive actions on a number of big ideas that will help all of us build an exceptional nation," Ezekwesili said in the capital Abuja.

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