The Yorubas Who Worked For Buhari's
Victory


Right from 2013, poltical analysts positioned
the southwest as the region that will
determine the winner of the just concluded
2015 presidential election. This analysis
made political parties see the region as the
battle ground, a thing that made the ruling
party, PDP, wake up from its slumber of
marginalizing the region, though at a late
period.
Below are the key yoruba politicians who
helped ensure that the APC candidate,
muhammadu buhari, won the region even
though PDP gave them a run for it.

1. Lai mohammed

He is the national publicity secretary of the all
progressives congress who came up with
constructive criticism that ensured people
dwelled on national issues that would have
been swept under the carpet. He was among
those that made APC's campaign issue
based. He had the ability to make issues out
of nothing, and since most of his assertions
end up being correct, people cared less about
questioning whatever seemed like
propaganda coming from him. He was
always seen in one media outlet or another
and moving from state to state selling his
party and showing the nigerian democratic
setting what an opposition's voice ought to
sound like. No wonder he offered to school
PDP's olisa metuh on opposition politics.

2. Kayode fayemi

He is the ex-governor of ekiti state who, after
losing the chance for a second term, called to
congratulate his opponent, an act that later
became a trend in the just concluded
elections. He coordinated APC's transparent
presidential primaries that saw the
emergence of the candidature of general
buhari. His influence gave buhari the needed
25% in a PDP controlled ekiti state. His
coordination of the primaries that ended with
no rancour added a boost to the campaigns
of his party as many had thought the
primaries would lead to an implosion of the
party.

3. Babatunde fashola

He came to limelite in 2007 when he won the
gubernatorial election in lagos under the
defunct ACN. His vision for a better lagos and
the ability to make them come to fruition
made other SW states give his party a chance
to govern them cos they all wanted a piece of
the ideology that transformed lagos into a
mega city. His achievements in lagos helped
secure the state which had the 2nd highest
number of PVC's collected.

4. Abike dabiri

She's currently an honourable at the National
assembly. She was always present at the
presidential rallies of the APC and stood as a
representative of women, making it clear that
a buhari administration will be friendly to
women contrary to what his detractors say.
To cement that, she's currently tipped for a
ministerial role.

5. Bola tinubu

When most of the SW states became PDP
controlled, he ensured lagos state remained
an opposition force. He built the defunct ACN
and made it a bride lusted after by other
political parties and states. He was able to
spread the party's tentacles to other SW
states which positioned it as the party to beat
inorder to win the SW, this made the CPC and
a faction of APGA merge with it to form the
formidable APC that wrestled powers from
the PDP which ruled for 16yrs.

6. Olusegun obasanjo

The former president was very instrumental
in the victory of general buhari, as his
incessant verbal attacks on president
Goodluck jonathan helped reduce the
incumbent's popularity both locally and
internationally. Not only verbally, he wrote an
18 page letter called 'before it is too late' and
also published a book called 'my watch' in
which he came down heavily on president
Goodluck jonathan. He accepted the offer to
help navigate APC's agenda even as a card
carrying member of PDP. He later tore his
card in the presence of the media, an act that
other aggrieved PDP members followed.


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