Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso

All the likely successors to Buhari – Senate President Bukola Saraki former Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal and Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai – will bide their time in 2018...

Two contestants are already lining up for that contest: the former Governor of Kano State Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar are both preparing ill-concealed bids for the presidency...

Like Tambuwal Rabiu Kwankwaso a former Defence Minister and Kano State Governor may present himself as a compromise candidate...

These include Osinbajo's old patron Bola Ahmed Tinubu former Governor of Lagos State; Atiku Abubakar ex-Vice-President; Bukola Saraki Senate President; Nasir el-Rufai Kaduna State Governor; and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso ex-Governor of Kano...

Both Atiku Abubakar and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso ex-Governor of Kano State are mustering support to block such a move...

Other former PDP leaders due to play roles in the new government include former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former or serving state governors Abubakar Bukola Saraki Rabiu Kwankwaso and Rotimi Amaechi...

Buhari won 3 400 of 8 000 votes far ahead of his rivals former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso...

Rabiu Kwankwaso the outgoing Governor of Kano State argues that the party has to look to the new generation that he represents...

State security also intervened to stop Fayemi's fellow governors – Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) Adams Oshiomhole (Edo) and Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) – from going to Ekiti on the eve of the poll...

The kingmaker with the casting vote was Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso who last year defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) from the governing People's Democratic Party (PDP)...