Bayero is supported by Tinubu ally and former governor Abdullahi Ganduje who chairs the APC...

But Sanusi did not get along with Abdullahi Ganduje who became Kano governor in 2015...

Minister of State for Education Yusuf Tanko Sununu – a little-known gynaecologist from Kebbi State – got a spot thanks to Atiku Bagudu; Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory Mairiya Mahmud got one thanks to former Kano State governor and newly-anointed APC party chairman Abdullahi Ganduje; and Minister of Industry Trade and Investment Doris Uzoka-Anite secured a ministerial slot thanks to Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma her former boss (we hear Tinubu was rebuffed by former Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority head Uche Orji and other heavyweights he approached)...

Kwankwaso's dominance of Kano politics was confirmed by the NNPP's defeat of Governor Umar Ganduje and his son Abba in last month's national elections...

But doubtless Tinubu's allies in the north such as Abdullahi Ganduje governor of Kano state will do their best to reel in some of the more fungible votes...

That explains why Kano's governor Abdullahi Ganduje has been so assiduously courted by the rival candidates...

He hopes to counter that by wooing the governors of the high population states in the north-west such as Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State...

After being appointed as Emir of Kano in 2014 Sanusi clashed six years later with the governor of Kano State Abdullahi Umar Ganduje who contrived to dethrone him and bar him from the state (AC Vol 61 No 6 The Emir exits)...

There incumbent governor Abdullahi Ganduje expected to be Tinubu's running mate in a presidential campaign is under pressure...