It is all over.
Muhammadu Buhari has beaten Atiku Abubakar to the presidential ticket of
the All Progressives Congress (APC). It was a fairly predictable
outcome, but in politics 24 hours could make all the difference.
Fears in Buhari’s camp that Atiku could get the ticket had heightened as
the convention approached, but any doubt about where the pendulum would
swing disappeared on Wednesday when 12 governors met and endorsed
Buhari for the ticket.
Atiku had his own strategy, hoping that his extensive nationwide tour
and rounded experience in party primaries would swing the game in his
favour ─ moreso as there are only 14 APC governors, meaning other states
were there for the taking. But his strategy did not work out. Buhari
carried the day.
Atiku did not even come second – that slot went to Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso,
governor of Kano state, who surprised everybody by his big showing.
How did Buhari do it? Or, rather, how did Buhari’s supporters do it?
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