The battle for the presidential
ticket of the main opposition
party, the All Progressives
Congress, APC, is now narrowed
down to the North- West geo-
political zone.
Political observers believe it’ll be a
direct combat between former
military leader, Gen Muhammadu
Buhari (rtd) and the incumbent
Kano State Governor, Alhaji Rabiu
Kwankwaso.
Ahead of its presidential
primaries, therefore, there are
also strong indications that the
2011 presidential candidate of the
defunct Congress for Progressive
Change, CPC, Gen. Buhari, and
incumbent Kano governor, Alhaji
Kwankwaso, will fight in what
political pundits have described as
a make or mar battle for the soul
of the party.
The last convention where the
party’s national executive
emerged showed that the North-
East might have been screened
out of the race for the presidential
ticket.
Former National Republican
Congress, NRC, National
Chairman, Chief Tom Ikimi, who
wanted to be the national
chairman of the party and, who
would have worked for the
emergence of former Vice-
President Atiku Abubakar as the
likely presidential candidate, was
schemed out, thus narrowing
down the race to the North- West
zone.
In the zone, the two prominent
aspirants are definitely Buhari and
Kwankwaso.
Indeed, many in the party’s top
hierarchy, especially those from
CPC, one of the parties that
merged to form APC, believe that
the choice of Buhari as the
presidential candidate in next
year’s election is a foregone
conclusion.
What also reinforced his choice is
the backing he received from the
former members of the Action
Congress of Nigeria, ACN, one of
the parties in the merger.
Political watchers believe that
former Lagos State governor and a
chieftain of the party, Senator
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is backing
Buhari. But if the pressure of a
Muslim-Muslim ticket would not
be too heavy on the party, Tinubu
plans to be Buhari’s running mate.
Interestingly, at the last
convention of the party, the
Buhari/ Tinubu group seemed to
have had an upper hand as they
succeeded in working out the
emergence of the former Edo
State governor, John Odigie-
Oyegun, as the national chairman.
Kwankwaso on his part is relying
on the ‘New PDP’ members that
left the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, and joined the APC as well
the governors of the party who
are insisting in controlling the APC
and have also vowed that one of
their own must emerge as the
presidential candidate.
Kwankwaso’s firm control of Kano
State which resulted in the party
winning all the local government
seats in the last council election is
also giving him an edge.
Most political watchers believe
that Buhari’s antecedent as a firm
Islamic believer and his age, now
over 79, may be defects, especially
in the South.
Many of Buhari’s supporters,
however, believe that he is the
pillar on which the hope of the
APC stands in 2015, with respect
to the North-West. They therefore
feel that any attempt to blackmail
him on the basis of the so-called
desire to transfer power to the
younger politicians would spell
doom for the APC.
It was further gathered that the
young elements in the party are
rooting for Kwankwaso who is
believed to have cut a niche for
himself as a former federal
minister and governor of Kano,
one of the states with the highest
votes in the country.
Buhari who was born on
December 17, 1942 is a retired
Major General in the Nigerian
Army and a former military Head
of State from December 31, 1983
to August 27, 1985.
He also ran unsuccessfully for the
office of the President in the 2003,
2007 and 2011 elections. A Fulani
Muslim, he is a native of Daura in
Katsina State.
Buhari first came into public
attention in 1976 when he became
the Minister (then Federal
Commissioner) for Petroleum and
Natural Resources under the then-
Head of State, General Olusegun
Obasanjo. Before then, he served
as governor of the newly created
North-Eastern State during the
regime of Murtala Muhammed.
Buhari, widely believed to be an
honest and painstaking individual,
is also perceived as an anti-
corruption crusader.
Kwankwaso, on his part, had been
governor of Kano State from 1999
to 2003, and was reelected for a
second term on April 26, 2011.
This politician, with a political
ideology known as the
Kwankwasiyya Movement, was
born in Madobi Local Government
Area on October 21, 1956.
He worked with Kano State
Government for 17 years and rose
through the cadre of the civil
service to the rank of Principal
Engineer.
In 1992, he left the state civil
service and vied for election into
the Federal House of
Representatives, and was elected
as the Deputy Speaker.
In 1994, he was elected as a
delegate to the Constitutional
Conference. In 1999, he was
elected the Executive Governor of
Kano under the platform of PDP
and served a four-year term from
1999- 2003. He sought reelection
and lost to Alhaji Ibrahim
Shekarau of the All Nigeria
Peoples Party, ANPP.
Kwankwaso was appointed
Minister of Defence from 2003
-2006 and was chosen as Special
Adviser to the President on Dafur
and Somalia in 2006 -2007. He was
later appointed as the
representative of the North-West
geo-political zone in the Niger
Delta Development Commission
(NNDC) from 2009 -2010.


http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/buhari-kwankwaso-in-make-or-mar-battle-for-apc-ticket/

Now I know who want to kill Buhari.

ajatuka ni ti agbaari

PhockPhockMan: Now I know who want to kill Buhari.

Look at yourself?! You wanna justify Asari Dokubo's assassination attempt!

donphilopus:

Look at yourself?! You wanna justify Asari Dokubo's assassination attempt!

Leave the messenger, face the message. With the zeroing of APC presidential ticket to North West, his only obstacle remains Buhari. Had it been he succeeded in killing him, he would have killed two birds with one stone, first, unopposed APC presidential ticket, second, massive sympathy votes for him. He has already been thinking on this line for long hence his frequent attack on the President.

APC and their basket Mouth

Any attempt to deny Buhari his long term ambition will be a nail in APC coffin.

Kwankwaso is a mole,time will vindicate me.

Must Apc presidential ticket go to Northerners?
is it their birthright or what
why won't yoruba or igbo fly apc presidential flag



I dont like buhari ,i dont like kwankwaso!
BOTH OF THEM ARE TERRORISTS!!!

PhockPhockMan: Now I know who want to kill Buhari.

Weren't you among those PDP voltrons who claimed that Buhari stage-managed the attack?

agamenon: Kwankwaso is a mole,time will vindicate me.

I believe you. Femi Fani Kayode on my mind.

VICTORCIZA: Must Apc presidential ticket go to Northerners?
is it their birthright or what
why won't yoruba or igbo fly apc presidential flag



I dont like buhari ,i dont like kwankwaso!
BOTH OF THEM ARE TERRORISTS!!!

I tire oo

HNosegbe:

Weren't you among those PDP voltrons who claimed that Buhari stage-managed the attack?

My argument then is that the attack on Buhari is either coincidence or APC internal war.
I'M RIGHT AFTER ALL.

The "Make Or Mar Battle" only exist in the Coven of the PDP and their supporters. The Department of Witches and Wizards in the Coven are now working over time.

PhockPhockMan: My argument then is that the attack on Buhari is either coincidence or APC internal war.
I'M RIGHT AFTER ALL.

After saying "Now I know who wants to kill Buhari", he's now saying "My argument then is that the attack on Buhari is either coincidence or APC internal war".

My guy, you're confused.

If Mohammadu Buhari was born in 1942, how does that make him to be over 79 years old? Hmmm, Nigerians I hail o. PDP things...

OseghaleEbosele: If Mohammadu Buhari was born in 1942, how does that make him to be over 79 years old? Hmmm, Nigerians I hail o. PDP things...

That 1942 is his official age.
We know his real age.

Buhari is a great-great-great-grand father!

HNosegbe:

After saying "Now I know who wants to kill Buhari", he's now saying "My argument then is that the attack on Buhari is either coincidence or APC internal war".

My guy, you're confused.

If you can understand my statement "Now I know" means that I've been guessing like other nigerians. I don't blame you, I blame Almajiri education that produced you.

PhockPhockMan: If you can understand my statement "Now I know" means that I've been guessing like other nigerians. I don't blame you, I blame Almajiri education that produced you.

Oh but of course. You partisan supporters on Nairaland make insane comments on a daily basis on this forum, only to pass them off as "guesses" when asked to substantiate them.

Just imagine. You were "guessing" that Kwankwaso wants to kill Buhari.

Might as well resurrect azikiwe to come and lead us again

careytommy: Might as well resurrect azikiwe to come and lead us again

In a country of over 160 million people, only a METHUSELAH is best APC, Nigerians will decide.

PhockPhockMan: Now I know who want to kill Buhari.

wit his foot soldier, abi?

careytommy: Might as well resurrect azikiwe to come and lead us again

OseghaleEbosele: If Mohammadu Buhari was born in 1942, how does that make him to be over 79 years old? Hmmm, Nigerians I hail o. PDP things...

Perhaps he wanted to say 1842?

F

HNosegbe:

Oh but of course. You partisan supporters on Nairaland make insane comments on a daily basis on this forum, only to pass them off as "guesses" when asked to substantiate them.

Just imagine. You were "guessing" that Kwankwaso wants to kill Buhari.

That's why Apc and it's followers are senseless. Simple explanation from the guy, he said that before this news, he was guessing but now "he knows",but your stupidity nature can never allow you to think right.