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Late former President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, Yusuf Buhari, has picked the All Progressives Congress, APC, ticket for the Sandamu/Daura/Mai’adua Federal Constituency.
Buhari polled 5,849 votes to defeat Auwal Lawal Daura, who got 21 votes.
As a result of the development, Yusuf Buhari has emerged the APC candidate for the Sandamu/Daura/Mai’adua Federal Constituency seat for the 2027 general elections.
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The Eastern Updates reports that the APC House of Representatives primary elections are taking place across the country on Saturday.
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has insisted that there is no alliance between the Allied People’s Movement, APM, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The minister was responding to questions on the reported alliance between the PDP and the APM.
The minister said there was no existing alliance between the two political parties, describing it as the imagination of certain politicians.
There were reports of an alliance between the two parties prior to the announcement of the presidential ambition of the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde.
“Luckily, the PDP has issued a press statement. There is no alliance between the PDP and the Allied People’s Movement or any other political party as the case may be. INEC also knows that there is nothing called the PDP-APM alliance,” he added.
On the current situation involving Rivers State Governor Sim Fubara, who was rumoured to have left the APC for another party but recently issued a public declaration of allegiance to the APC, Wike said he was not aware of the governor having any unpleasant experience in his party because he was not a member of it.
He added that he preferred to answer questions and solve problems relating to his own party, the PDP.
Rabiu Kwankwaso has offered the most direct explanation yet for why he and other northern politicians in the Nigeria Democratic Congress accepted the party’s decision to zone its 2027 presidential ticket to the South — and the answer reaches back 16 years to the hospital bed where Umaru Musa Yar’adua died and left Nigeria’s power rotation arithmetic permanently tangled.
“We believe the best way to go now is to take it to the south so that we can eliminate the confusion, the confusion that emanated from the death of our brother, our friend, Umar Musa Yar’adua. That actually introduced the confusion into the system,” Kwankwaso said in an interview on Arise TV on Monday.
The argument is structurally simple even if its political implications are anything but. Yar’adua, a northerner, won the presidency in 2007 and died in office in May 2010 having served less than a full term. His deputy, Goodluck Jonathan from the South-South, completed the remainder and then won a full term of his own in 2011 before losing to Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. Buhari served two full terms from 2015 to 2023. Bola Tinubu, a southwesterner, has been president since then.
The problem, as Kwankwaso acknowledged, is that none of those facts produce a universally agreed answer to the question of whose turn it is. “One can argue that from 1999 to date, the south has done more years than the north. But it depends on how it suits you,” he said — a remarkably candid admission that the zoning debate is as much about the starting point of the calculation as the calculation itself.
The NDC’s resolution was to pick the starting point that generates the least argument among its own members. “What worked now is counting from Buhari,” Kwankwaso said. Under that framework, Buhari’s eight northern years create an obligation for southern succession — meaning Tinubu is currently serving the South’s first term under this counting methodology, and a second southern term in 2027 would complete the cycle before the North’s turn returns.
It is a clean formula precisely because it ignores everything before 2015, which is also why people who count differently find it convenient rather than principled.
