That could damage the chances of another billionaire and former governor of Lagos State Bola Tinubu but it may benefit younger candidates such as Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Ekiti State governor Kayode Fayemi...

On that basis party veterans point to two frontrunners – ex-governor of Lagos Bola Tinubu for the APC and ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar (AC Vol 63 No 8 Vice-President Osinbajo's bid challenges APC leader Tinubu and bank governor Emefiele)...

This sets up a clash with some of the leading barons in the party who are backing ex-governor of Lagos and consummate political deal-maker Bola Ahmed Tinubu Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi and those some of whom are close to Buhari who are backing an unorthodox campaign by central bank governor Godwin Emefiele for the party nomination...

Here Osinbajo might benefit from the weaknesses of his main rivals: Bola Tinubu Rotimi Amaechi and Godwin Emefiele...

They reserve a particular contempt for the campaign of the former governor of Lagos State Bola Ahmed Tinubu...

That did not stop contenders such as Bola Ahmed Tinubu from rushing to the Presidential Villa at Aso Rock to announce his presidential ambitions to Buhari in front of a phalanx of television cameras...

The first name on that list is Bola Ahmed Tinubu elected as one of Lagos's three senators in 1993 then emerging as an activist in the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) that challenged Babangida's successor Gen Sani Abacha as he stepped up repression and grand corruption...

This has left the door open for APC national leader Bola Ahmed Tinubu who has the money name recognition and grassroots organisation to kickstart his presidential campaign (AC Vol 62 No 25 Tinubu fights for his legacy)...