The 2023 Nigerian presidential election will be held on 25 February 2023 to elect the president and vice president of Nigeria. Incumbent APC President Muhammadu Buhari is term-limited and cannot seek re-election for a third term.
Other federal elections, including elections to the House of Representatives and the Senate, will also be held on the same date while state elections will be held two weeks afterward on 11th March. The winners of the election will be inaugurated on 29th May 2023, the former date of Democracy Day.
Party primaries were scheduled for between 4th April and 9th June 2022 with the Peoples Democratic Party nominating former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on 28th May while the All Progressives Congress nominated former Governor of Lagos State Bola Tinubu on 8th June. For the less politically represented Labour Party and New Nigeria Peoples Party, former Governor of Anambra State Peter Obi was nominated on 30th May and former Governor of Kano State Rabiu Kwankwaso was nominated on 8th June, respectively. In the weeks after the primaries, vice presidential running mates were announced with Abubakar choosing Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on 16th June while his main opponents initially picked placeholder running mates before later substituting in substantive nominees. Obi selected former Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed on 8th July, Tinubu picked Senator Kashim Shettima on 10th July, and Kwankwaso chose pastor Isaac Idahosa on 14th July.