•Alleged Buhari had pact with Kwankwaso to win Kano

By Taiwo Adisa, Abuja



Further details have emerged as to the last-minute strategies employed by some pro-Buhari grassroots campaigners to turn the minds of Northern voters against the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 presidential election.

Investigations by Sunday Tribune confirmed that some strategists from the camp of President Muhammadu Buhari got worried about the growing popularity of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar especially following the massive crowds that greeted his campaigns in most capitals of the Northern states.

It was gathered that the thinking within the president’s camp initially was that Atiku could not shake Buhari’s vote bank in the North but that intelligence reports later indicated to the contrary and that leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) were forced to agree with the projections about Atiku’s growing popularity following PDP’s campaigns in the North.

In view of the belief that the bounce in Atiku’s campaigns could upstage the president in the North, especially following the shutdown of Kano city when the former vice-president campaigned in the state, the Buhari strategists were said to have reached to the depth of their wits.

They were said to have designed some messages meant to circulate in the grassroots to ensure the Northern grassroots voters were weaned from Atiku.

One of the messages was that President Buhari had reached a pact with former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, that the former governor would allow his crowd to vote for Buhari in the presidential election, while the president would in turn enable a free and fair contest in the state for the governorship election.

It was also gathered that the grassroots campaigners went into the hinterlands of the North and told stories that the people should be wary of Atiku in view of the fact that he was said to have reached a pact with some pro-Biafran personalities, whom they said he planned to hand over the running of the affairs of his administration to.

It was gathered that the campaigners reminded the Northern voters that they should recall that the man who drove Nnamdi Kanu out of Kuje Prisons was Osita Chidoka, whom they said was playing critical roles in the Atiku campaign.

“The level of disinformation was massive against Atiku in the run-up to the presidential election. The people were simply told that a vote for Atiku would be a vote for the Biafran takeover of Nigeria and that the key leaders of the Atiku campaign were Biafran leaders.


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“They also spread the story that even Atiku’s running mate, Peter Obi also had a beer company, which they claimed had the Biafran flag on its logo,” a source said.

Besides the activities of some double agents who were in the Atiku campaign and who were also said to have orchestrated the disinformation activities, sources said that the strategists also turned the restructuring campaign by Atiku as a pact to hand over power to the South-East in 2023.

They even claimed that even before 2023, Atiku’s government would be largely run by alleged “pro-Biafran” elements.

Sources also said that the grassroots Northern voters were further told that as a mark of his faithfulness to the planned hand over of the government to “Biafra faithful,” Atiku had also planned to make his wife from the South-East the First lady.

“They went about claiming that even the Yoruba were no longer supporting Atiku, because the information had reached them that Jenifer Atiku would be the First Lady in the Atiku presidency. They Yoruba were said to be distraught with this and that they have vowed not to vote for the former vice-president,” the sources said.

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The strategy of tribal sentiments only paid off to those Almajiris and core Muslims illiterate residing in Borno and Yobe.

Kano voted massively for Atiku but thanks to baba "Integrity" who deployed every means of rigging tactics to get Kano.

Just like Osun, we are patiently waiting.

One aboki said he voted Buhari because atiku wanted to sell Nigeria.

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JasonScoolari:
The strategy of tribal sentiments only paid off to those Almajiris and core Muslims illiterate residing in Borno and Yobe.

Kano voted massively for Atiku but thanks to baba "Integrity" who deployed every means of rigging tactics to get Kano.

Just like Osun, we are patiently waiting.

Disinformation?, is that what you called PROPAGANDA AND BLACKMAIL this days?

Hmmm

kwakwanso scammed Ati'aku Frimpong El Cameroonian

Ok

One man gives one reason why he succeeded, while the other gives thousands of reason why he could not.

The information only worked for Borno and Yobe and parts of northeast...

Buhari rigged the election and that is it. If the Tribune has nothing to publish again..I have my childhood story for them

Illitracy na bastard, we told them to go to school, no they refuse, instead na to go road go beg, Bleep zombies Bleep almajeris.

and to that bastard below selling fix games, thunder fire ur left yansh

Political strategy. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that since all the politics that is played in Nigeria is based on ethnicity

Politics a game of personal interest

To think that the people of Borno state voted massively for Buhari made me give up on them.

Chai,i no wan hear say north sabi play politic sh1t talk here ooo.

We all know what happened in Kano state, It had nothing to do with knowing how to play politics, kwankwaso dump Atiku for Buhari, that was what happened.

For the case of Adamawa, it is simply the Atiku factor,nothing else.

JasonScoolari:
The strategy of tribal sentiments only paid off to those Almajiris and core Muslims illiterate residing in Borno and Yobe.

Kano voted massively for Atiku but thanks to baba "Integrity" who deployed every means of rigging tactics to get Kano.

Just like Osun, we are patiently waiting.

Buhari rigged Kano and Kwankwaso and his red cap squad didn't burn down Kano after the presidential election

Your brain needs to be restored to factory setting

JasonScoolari:
The strategy of tribal sentiments only paid off to those Almajiris and core Muslims illiterate residing in Borno and Yobe.

Kano voted massively for Atiku but thanks to baba "Integrity" who deployed every means of rigging tactics to get Kano.

Just like Osun, we are patiently waiting.

Cyfia pain is still disturbing you.

No matter what they will come up with to legitimise Buhari rigging, even if Buhari puppet at supreme Court said otherwise, we all know that Buhari rigged

These people are confusing me oo. I thought Atiku won on INEC server

Just like many people were ‘disinformed’ about Buhari’s purported plan to Islamise Nigeria.

It is laughable that anyone would believe that the Yoruba nation would vote for a candidate just because his Yoruba wife is not being chosen as a First Lady.

There was a popular video and social media message in the core north before election of Atiku going to sell NNPC... In other words many saw it as him wanting to sell Nigeria... Actually all this are normal during political campaign... Even in America they both cook up stories against each other... For this, it work against Atiku and for Buhari... And there was a general feeling that Buhari is more a northerner at heart and hold there interest in mind unlike Atiku....

Sounds like what all parties do for one another. Only that, some got hit worse than the other.

And when these things e
Were happening yet no paper could report.

Also, what do we call the ones spreading news that Buhari has been cloned.

davillian:
One aboki said he voted Buhari because atiku wanted to sell Nigeria.

Atiku did not help himself by shouting he was going to privatize nnpc....

Aboki must be an aboki... So many propagandists speak in the mosque and small radio they carry around

Bullshiit

We did not need anyone to tell us Atiku is a crook out to line his pockets and those of his cronies, he even said as much.

At no point was Buhari ever threatened by Atiku because the latter was never popular

As for crowds, even GEJ had a massive one in Kano. Crowd size is not a determinant of elections.

And if Atiku is such a prosperous commodity, how come it took him nearly 30 years of trying before he 'won' the primaries?

And what about the idiots that said Buhari was cloned and was in the process of islamizing the country. Smh
Sore flath..ead..ded losers

Ok