President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Katsina State, from where he will travel to Daura, his hometown, to vote in the Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday.
Buhari’s plane touched down at Katsina’s Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua Airport at 4:40 p.m.
He is expected to vote in Daura for his preferred candidates later on Saturday.
Prior to leaving Abuja for Katsina on Thursday, Buhari convened a Security Council Meeting, where he met with heads of security agencies to brief them on the importance of protecting voters and ensuring smooth elections.
Buhari also met with the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, in Abuja, where he urged him to ensure free and fair elections.
He was also present on Wednesday at the International Conference Centre Abuja, where candidates for the 2023 presidential election signed a peace accord.
At the event, Buhari urged all candidates running in the elections to accept the results as the choice of the electorates.
In the run-up to the elections, Buhari, who is serving his final term as President, repeatedly stated that he would leave a credible and transparent electoral process.
The President signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law in February 2022.
Buhari was elected President in 2015, defeating his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, in a closely fought election.
He was elected on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC), a party formed in February 2013 by a merger of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), and the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), as well as a breakaway faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
On May 29, 2023, Buhari is expected to hand over the reins of power to his successor.
