Unblockable:
Kwankwaso who couldn't win his reelection in Kano in 2003 after his first term in 1999 is threatening Buhari. Lol

Buhari single-handedly brought an unknown Shekarau to defeat Kwankwaso in 2003. Kwankwaso had to align himself with Buhari in 2011 by printing his pictures alongside that of Buhari on his posters for him to win the election.

Buhari has never lost election in Kano State. Even when PDP rigged the polls (even the late Yar'adua confirmed that) in 2007, they couldn't still win Kano State then.

In 2011, Buhari even defeated a sitting Governor Shekarau in his own State of Kano. GEJ came a distant third in Kano then. Lest i forget, CPC was formed less than five months to the general elections yet he still had such number of votes in Kano and the entire Northwest plus four States in the Northeast.

Kwankwaso should not deceive himself. A bedridden Buhari would defeat a combined PDP candidacy of Atiku/Kwankwaso/Tambuwal/Saraki/Makarfi/Lamido/Dankwambo in Kano State.

It will be a catastrophic decision for the myopic people in the APC to dismiss their former PDP defecting brides as "people of no electoral value".
Guess they were the same people saying "politics is a game of numbers when they were shamelessly poaching them in 2014.

HisSexcellency:
The hypocrisy of apc members stink to high heavens. Buhari contested elections in this country 4 times before he won in 2015, how do they now believe he can never lose in 2019 even with all the challenges all about this administration

oluwamile:
the truth is that neither u,saraki or Atiku can win the heart of Nigerians,although politics is a game of numbers..
bt saraki has a bid for presidency,markarfi too,Atiku,,kwankwaso,Tambuwal and lamido all wants to rule hence there defection,bt no one will want to give way for each other hence another political struggle and confusion in their midst,and all of them.re just looters forming saints.
i will go for buhari a 100times cox am sure he wont loot our money

Unblockable:
Kwankwaso who couldn't win his reelection in Kano in 2003 after his first term in 1999 is threatening Buhari. Lol

Unblockable:

Buhari single-handedly brought an unknown Shekarau to defeat Kwankwaso in 2003. Kwankwaso had to align himself with Buhari in 2011 by printing his pictures alongside that of Buhari on his posters for him to win the election.

Unblockable:

Buhari has never lost election in Kano State. Even when PDP rigged the polls (even the late Yar'adua confirmed that) in 2007, they couldn't still win Kano State then.

Unblockable:

In 2011, Buhari even defeated a sitting Governor Shekarau in his own State of Kano. GEJ came a distant third in Kano then. Lest i forget, CPC was formed less than five months to the general elections yet he still had such number of votes in Kano and the entire Northwest plus four States in the Northeast.

Unblockable:

Kwankwaso should not deceive himself. A bedridden Buhari would defeat a combined PDP candidacy of Atiku/Kwankwaso/Tambuwal/Saraki/Makarfi/Lamido/Dankwambo in Kano State.

Merimental:
Pdp will sweep d above mentioned clean n clear..

Welrez:
Following the defection of former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), his spokesperson, Binta Spikin, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will not win in Kano State in the 2019 general election.

She said this to PREMIUM TIMES while reacting to Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi’s comment on Mr Buhari’s chances.

According to Punch Newspaper, Mr Amaechi had on Friday said Mr Buhari will win in Sokoto, Kano and Bauchi States in the 2019 general elections even if he was taken to the states “on a sick bed”.

Mr Amaechi also said the governors of Sokoto and Kwara states, Aminu Tambuwal and Abdulfatah Ahmed, will leave the APC.

“On those that defected at the House of Representatives and Senate, where do they come from? They come from areas that the President is comfortable. Do you honestly believe that the President will lose election in Sokoto? We are not God, but it’s one of his comfort zones,” the Punch quoted the minister as saying.

Mr Amaechi heads Mr Buhari’s 2019 campaign organisation.

“If you bring the President on a sick bed to Bauchi and Kano, he will win and he has never lost election in Bauchi. But that is a bit arrogant on our side; we should not underestimate them,” he said.

In her response, Mrs Spikin said Mr Kwankwaso’s defection will not only affect the votes in Kano State but has brought down the APC.

“I think his defection will greatly affect the votes in 2019. His defection will not only affect the chances of the APC in Kano, his defection has brought down APC.

“If you look across Nigeria today, not Kano alone, there’s nowhere in Nigeria that you don’t have the presence of Kwankwasiyya (supporters of Mr Kwankwaso).

“Kano is his home base and he is well grounded in Kano. Even without the government, he had a 60 percent of the voters, so what do you think will happen now that he has joined forces with people like Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau?” she said.

She further said the government needs to know that there is a path that is blocked “even if you fight it.”

“Even if the government puts whatever in place, there is no way President Buhari will win in Kano, there’s no way.”

When asked if Mr Kwankwaso stands a chance of winning the 2019 general election should he officially declare his ambition to run for presidency, she simply said, “He stands a very good chance to win Buhari. We are covered.”

Mr Kwankwaso was one of the 15 senators who defected from the APC on Tuesday.

In his reaction, the governor of the state, Abdullahi Ganduje, had said the mass defection will not affect the party’s chances politically.

He also said Mr Kwankwaso’s exit will not be felt in the state: “I want you to go and study the situation on ground in Kano, his (Kwankwaso) defection does not change the political mood in the state. Nobody cares to be disturbed by their action,” Mr Ganduje said.

Mr Kwankwaso has been locked in a fierce political confrontation with Mr Ganduje. Over the past two years, several attacks and reprisal attacks between the supporters of the two politicians have been reported.

famology:
Sometimes I wonder the kind of naivety people display on this forum.They grow bitter everyday to the extent that they say buhari can't even win katsina. How can someone say buhari will lose kano?Hatred on nairaland doesn't translate to votes.You guys keep ranting here with so much political ignorance while the party continues to win elections on ground.After the defeat u come and cry rigging without verifiable proofs.Since ur bitterness here,the party has retained Edo,taken Ekiti,taken Ondo,came second in Anambra,set to retain Osun.

OfficialAPCNig:

It seems you don't know who Kwankwaso is. He lost in 2003 election because of his staunch support for Obasanjo, a Christian, the opposition headed by Buhari's APP pulled both the tribal and religious card and OBJ rewarded
him with Defence Minister.

In 2011, he won re-election with just 62k votes. It was at that point he started building the Kwankwasiyya movement aggressively.


Buhari was only popular because of his staunch support for Sharia and Kano is Pro-sharia. Kwankwanso lost because of his support for Obasanjo who repeatedly worked against Sharia.

Buhari didn't make Shekarau Governor, he only rode on the existing sentiment against Kwankwanso then.

You forgot to add how Shekarau pursued Buhari from ANPP.


He won in 2007 because he had Shekarau as Governor, in 2011 the NEF backed him against a Christian candidate (GEJ) and in 2015 he won Kano because of Kwankwaso.

Ganduje can't stand Kwankwaso + Shekarau combo in 2019.


In 2011, the North saw GEJ as a common enemy and adopted Buhari as a consensus candidate which Shekarau rebelled against, so the people voted against him in the North and Kwankwanso took advantage of that to become Governor under PDP with just 62k votes.

If Buhari is that strong in Kano on his own why didn't he win the Kano Governorship election for his boy Lawan Jafaru?

The only time he ran against Shekarau, Kwankwaso, he got only 7.2% of the total votes. He only won Kano in the Presidential election because of the reason I already mention above.


Only Kwankwanso + Shekarau can clip his wings. The only time he went heads on against the two simultaneously, he left Kano with only 7.2%.

Saraki will bury him in Kwara. Tambuwal in Sokoto and Atiku in the entire NE with Danjuma.

Buhari only won because of the defection of nPDP, Atiku, not even Tinubu.

Remove the 5 Governors that defected, the upset that happened in the Middle belt, a merger of CPC and CAN wouldn't have won the election.

Example:

In 2007, ANPP + ACN = 9 Million
PDP = 25 Million

2011, CPC + ACN = 15 Million
PDP = 22 Million

But in 2015 even with the mergers, the upsets in the Middle belt and the nPDP defection, he only won with 3 million votes.

So if you discount all these, you would see a merger of just CPC + CAN wouldn't have won the 2015 election.

Peacecore:
Na if Ganduje allow to enter kano first. A day dreamer!

MRSALT:

Can you stop making irrelevant comparison. In 2003 and 2007, he was overated. After his massive failure as a president, the scenario is now different. He can't deceive the electorates any more

Herdsmen:
Buhari will lose 2019 election..

Merimental:
Pdp will sweep d above mentioned clean n clear..

johnnyvid:
of course buhari will lose massively in the north central, middle belt state. the northerners are all tired of miyetti allah Apc party that refused to stop the herdsmen crisis.Senator Kwankwaso supporters burning brooms in Kano to symbolize their defection from APC to PDP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC5LiahB4Es

Welrez:
Following the defection of former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), his spokesperson, Binta Spikin, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will not win in Kano State in the 2019 general election.

She said this to PREMIUM TIMES while reacting to Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi’s comment on Mr Buhari’s chances.

According to Punch Newspaper, Mr Amaechi had on Friday said Mr Buhari will win in Sokoto, Kano and Bauchi States in the 2019 general elections even if he was taken to the states “on a sick bed”.

Mr Amaechi also said the governors of Sokoto and Kwara states, Aminu Tambuwal and Abdulfatah Ahmed, will leave the APC.

“On those that defected at the House of Representatives and Senate, where do they come from? They come from areas that the President is comfortable. Do you honestly believe that the President will lose election in Sokoto? We are not God, but it’s one of his comfort zones,” the Punch quoted the minister as saying.

Mr Amaechi heads Mr Buhari’s 2019 campaign organisation.

“If you bring the President on a sick bed to Bauchi and Kano, he will win and he has never lost election in Bauchi. But that is a bit arrogant on our side; we should not underestimate them,” he said.

In her response, Mrs Spikin said Mr Kwankwaso’s defection will not only affect the votes in Kano State but has brought down the APC.

“I think his defection will greatly affect the votes in 2019. His defection will not only affect the chances of the APC in Kano, his defection has brought down APC.

“If you look across Nigeria today, not Kano alone, there’s nowhere in Nigeria that you don’t have the presence of Kwankwasiyya (supporters of Mr Kwankwaso).

“Kano is his home base and he is well grounded in Kano. Even without the government, he had a 60 percent of the voters, so what do you think will happen now that he has joined forces with people like Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau?” she said.

She further said the government needs to know that there is a path that is blocked “even if you fight it.”

“Even if the government puts whatever in place, there is no way President Buhari will win in Kano, there’s no way.”

When asked if Mr Kwankwaso stands a chance of winning the 2019 general election should he officially declare his ambition to run for presidency, she simply said, “He stands a very good chance to win Buhari. We are covered.”

Mr Kwankwaso was one of the 15 senators who defected from the APC on Tuesday.

In his reaction, the governor of the state, Abdullahi Ganduje, had said the mass defection will not affect the party’s chances politically.

He also said Mr Kwankwaso’s exit will not be felt in the state: “I want you to go and study the situation on ground in Kano, his (Kwankwaso) defection does not change the political mood in the state. Nobody cares to be disturbed by their action,” Mr Ganduje said.

Mr Kwankwaso has been locked in a fierce political confrontation with Mr Ganduje. Over the past two years, several attacks and reprisal attacks between the supporters of the two politicians have been reported.