Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso

The other two Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) speaking last month and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People's Party (NNNP) on 18 January failed to match Obi's spark...

Another disruptor is veteran Kano politician Rabiu Kwankwaso...

Neither does he have the capacity of Obi's first choice – Rabiu Kwankwaso former governor of Kano state – to attract millions of voters in the north...

The state APC chapter is now in the hands of Ibrahim Shekarau former governor of the state who alongside ex-Ganduje mentor Rabiu Kwankwaso is one of the three biggest political heavyweights in the state...

By then Sanusi had become Emir of Kano backed by Rabiu Kwankwaso then the outgoing governor of the state and an erstwhile contender for the presidency who lost his Senate seat last year (AC Vol 60 No 5 The stayaway election)...

Two of them Bukola Saraki of Kwara and Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano lost their Senate races...

His PDP rival Abba Kabir Yusuf is the son-in-law of a popular grassroots figure former governor now Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso...

Although the ruling party has broadly united behind Buhari's candidacy – all the serious challengers such as Sokoto governor Aminu Tambuwal and the former state governors Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) and Bukola Saraki (Kwara) have defected to the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) – there are big political fights at state level...

However Governor Tambuwal of Sokoto and former Kano governor Rabiu Kwankwaso have defected to the PDP and although they probably will not deliver a win for Atiku in their states they may well keep the APC machine from inflating the numbers and deliver the 25% that Atiku needs as well as possibly winning gubernatorial races there...

Former APC governor of Kano and Defence Minister Rabiu Kwankwaso also defected to the PDP (AC Vol 54 No 14 The governors and the insurgency)...