APC Finally Dumps Gen Buhari As Their 2015 Presidential Candidate.

APC Considers Kwankwaso of kano state for the APC Presidential Ticket instead of Buhari

. prominent former military generals, traditional and religious leaders, politicians across the country said that Buhari is too old for the job. There are indications that Kano State governor, Rabi’u Kwankwaso who dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC), could emerge as the presidential candidate of the opposition APC in the 2015 general elections. This follows the decision of the party to dump former Head of State, Gen.

Muhammadu Buhari

and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from the race to pick its presidential and vice presidential candidates for the 2015 presidential election. The governors of the APC favour Kwankwaso as a result of the recent local government elections in Kano where the party garnered over two million votes, winning all the 44 local government chairmanship positions and all the councillorship seats, although the result is considered not to be free and fair.