Editor’s note: It has been almost a year Nigerians voted Muhammadu Buhari as the 4th democratically elected president. Though the road to the presidency wasn’t easy, there were a handful of men who made Buhari President.

This piece the writer takes a look at the roles and efforts they put in, making the 4th attempt of Buhari at the presidential election possible.

On March 28, 2015; exactly one year ago, 15 million Nigerians voted to elect Muhammadu Buhari president. Behind the scenes however, the process to make sure every single one of those votes counted was fraught with danger and state created booby traps.

Some of those pitfalls included the reluctance of the Goodluck Jonathan administration to sanction the registration of APC as a political party, the unwillingness of the then ruling PDP to accept the use of card readers during the elections and the legal fight to have Buhari disqualified over his lack of a school certificate. But Buhari’s road to the presidency has been a long march spanning over a decade and has seen some of his staunchest supporters fall to the wayside while many new ones joined the bandwagon.

A handful of people were however responsible to creating the conditions that made the 2015 election different from the previous three that Buhari had contested in. Naturally, there are those that helped shape the election but will never be known to public, yet they are better known to the president. There are also those that the president himself will never know the efforts they put in, in making his election possible. While the roles of some of these men were not visible to the public, an attempt can be made to pick out the few whose impacts on the election are apparent. Here is a list (in descending order) of the top men who made Buhari President and also shaped the 2015 election:


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1. James Entwistle

2. Prof. Attahiru Jega

The final election
results showed that it was a close contest and the
neutrality of INEC and the use of card readers was
the difference between winning and losing.

3. Bola Tinubu
Arguably, Bola Tinubu should be on top of the list of
those that helped make Buhari president. He was
running a one-man show as political leader of the
southwest.

4. Umar Ardo

5. Olusegun Obasanjo

Nobody did more to damage and discredit the image
of the Goodluck Jonathan presidency than Olusegun
Obasanjo. It started with his resignation as the Board
of Trustees chairman of the PDP

6. Justice Mahmud Mohammed
Had anyone other than Justice Mahmud
Mohammed been the Chief Justice of Nigeria, the
PDP would probably have succeeded in disqualifying
Buhari from the election or creating that conditions
that would have made the elections impossible to
hold.

7. Nasiru El-Rufai
Without El-Rufai’s persistence, Nigeria
today would probably still be ruled by PDP. But
getting Buhari to run again wasn’t all that he did. To
succeed, he first had to expose the contradictions
and inconsistencies of those that managed Buhari
prior to 2015.

8. 5 Governors & Atiku Abubakar
for the
very first time in its history, the PDP presidential
primary was uncontested, Jonathan was
unchallenged. When five of the governors, a good
number of federal lawmakers and former vice
president, Atiku Abubakar finally dumped the PDP,
the party came crashing down.

9. Goodluck Jonathan
The 2015 president election was Jonathan’s to lose
and incredibly, he lost it. Somehow, he had managed
to pick a fight with virtually everybody and left open
wounds even though he knew he wanted to be
reelected.

10. Femi Fani-Kayode

Right from his days as spokesman to former
president, Olusegun Obasanjo, Femi Fani-Kayode had
always been known to go to the extreme in the name
Fani-Kayode was helping or sabotaging Jonathan’s
cause in the build up to the presidential election.

Gej scored an own goal the day he made that cocaine and igbo pants sniffer dog called ffk his campaign manager.

Honourable mention must be given to the lion of APC DanFulani sule Rotimi Ameachi for matching Atiku forex to forex in bribing delegates. Atiku tabled $10,000 per delegates Ameachi doubled it to $20,000 per delegates. Without stolen forex from rivers, Buhari won't be president today.

Trace the lines and connect the dots and you see saint Buhari is a smooth criminal pretender.