How frontrunners scheme to outdo one another for Northwest’s vote

The pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to join the campaign trail of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was the need to turn over the famed Buhari’s vote-bank warehousing not less than 12 million ballots.

The outgoing President ever since he ventured into electoral contests after his stint as Nigeria’s military head of state, had been returning a steady vote tally of 12million. From his debut in 2003, when he sought to disrupt the incumbent president Olusegun Obasanjo’s second term aspiration, Buhari garnered substantial votes from the entire Northern region.