The more than 1.9 million votes President Muhammadu Buhari received in Kano State during the 2015 presidential election will not be won by any one candidate in the upcoming election, according to Labour Party (LP) vice-presidential candidate Datti Baba-Ahmed.
In the most populous state in the North, Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) defeated Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party with 1,903,999 votes, but the LP vice presidential candidate said that Kaduna and Katsina were additional battlegrounds in the region.
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He also saw the increase of youth in his native state of Kaduna, the growing consciousness of Nigeria’s unity, and the non-indigenous population throughout Northern and Central Kaduna as positive aspects for his party.
“The northern Nigerian votes that were waiting to make up the difference which either of the two other runners-up were hoping to get, [it] turned out that they are not getting it,” Baba-Ahmed said during a live appearance on Channels Television’s special election programme The 2023 Verdict on Tuesday.
“The heavy punchers – Kano, for example – is now a watershed of what its votes used to be. In 2015, the 1.9 million votes of Kano, nobody can aspire to have that which of course Buhari punched Jonathan with the final blow. Nobody is going to get that in Kano.”
“We have pulled a lot of weight beyond the comprehension of the two runners-up,” he added.
