Two of Tinubu's most serious opponents come from the north: Atiku Abubakar from Adamwa in the north-east and Rabiu Kwankwaso in Kano in the north-west...
Rabiu Kwankwaso who came fourth polled 1...
But then-Kano governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the All Progressives Congress (APC) backed Sanusi who had months earlier been suspended as governor of Nigeria's Central Bank by President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP; AC Vol 55 No 13 Sanusi's political throne)...
It will be helped by the NNPP presidential candidate Rabi'u Kwankwaso who enjoys a national profile...
4%); and Rabiu Kwankwaso won 1...
Vol 64 No 2 |
- NIGERIA
- BRITAIN
The other two Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) speaking last month and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People's Party (NNNP) on 18 January failed to match Obi's spark...
Another disruptor is veteran Kano politician Rabiu Kwankwaso...
Neither does he have the capacity of Obi's first choice – Rabiu Kwankwaso former governor of Kano state – to attract millions of voters in the north...
The state APC chapter is now in the hands of Ibrahim Shekarau former governor of the state who alongside ex-Ganduje mentor Rabiu Kwankwaso is one of the three biggest political heavyweights in the state...
By then Sanusi had become Emir of Kano backed by Rabiu Kwankwaso then the outgoing governor of the state and an erstwhile contender for the presidency who lost his Senate seat last year (AC Vol 60 No 5 The stayaway election)...