{"id":133040,"date":"2023-01-30T09:19:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T09:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/?p=133040"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:51:53","slug":"despite-killer-floods-nigerian-presidential-frontrunners-dismiss-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afrikavuka.org\/fr\/despite-killer-floods-nigerian-presidential-frontrunners-dismiss-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite killer floods, Nigerian presidential frontrunners dismiss climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Last year, flooding across Nigeria killed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.munichre.com\/content\/dam\/munichre\/mrwebsitespressreleases\/natcat_stats_2022_factsheet.pdf\/_jcr_content\/renditions\/original.\/natcat_stats_2022_factsheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 600<\/a>\u00a0people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although climate change made this event\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldweatherattribution.org\/climate-change-exacerbated-heavy-rainfall-leading-to-large-scale-flooding-in-highly-vulnerable-communities-in-west-africa\/\">more likely<\/a>, the country\u2019s leading presidential candidates have so far failed to take the issue seriously on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>A month away from general elections, Nigerian climate expert professor Chukwumerije Okereke told Climate Home that, in spite of the extreme floods last year, climate change was still not a decisive issue in the country\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>The leading candidate in the latest polls,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/manifesto.obidatticampaign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Obi,<\/a>\u00a0has dismissed the importance of addressing the climate crisis, while the second place,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolatinubu.com\/manifesto\/renewed_hope-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bola Tinubu<\/a>, has supported coal expansion.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atiku.org\/_files\/ugd\/eef005_bed2250281af40468ebcb427c0db7ec0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atiku Abubakar<\/a>\u00a0is polling in third place.<\/p>\n<p>Okereke said that Obi was the only one to even visit flood victims.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling carried out before the floods showed that two-thirds of Nigerians had not heard of climate change.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":133041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-post"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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