Oby Ezekwisili, a former World Bank vice president has moved from being  Nobel Peace Prize nominee to become the first high profile Nigerian woman to contest for the country’s presidency with the incumbent.

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Former Cabinet minister Oby Ezekwesili co-founded the “Bring Back our Girls”  campaign to help free the 276 girls kidnapped from Chibok in northern Nigeria in 2014.

She’s been endorsed by the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria as its presidential candidate in the election next February.

The 55-year-old believes support from the  youth, who make up the majority of voters in the west African country, will help her shade President Muhammadu Buhari and his former colleague Atiku Abubakar who’s gone back to the opposition People’s Democratic Party to contest the presidential poll.

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