Buhari’s successors, their dreams and the reality (2) - Punch Newspapers

I was convinced that with a free and fair process, the APC presidential primary would only produce Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

The relevance, the reach and the advantage that Tinubu’s political structure gave him within APC generally and in the South-West, in particular, going into the 2022 presidential primary, weren’t equalled by any of the other contenders.

This means that with just 400 votes for him alone and the rest of the votes (maybe 300 each) shared equally among the other contenders, he nevertheless would have emerged the winner.

By playing the many intra-party roles he did as Leader, Tinubu accumulated...readmore