A source close to the meeting said, “There is no doubt that we shall reach a consensus. Nobody is holding any hard line. Even Ribadu has expressed his willingness to step down, but Tinubu still wants to be vice president and Buhari is not as against it as he once was.” However, by yesterday afternoon, things had taken a less amenable turn for the alliance. The problem began over which platform the alliance’s candidate should contest on. While there was no doubt that Muhammadu Buhari would fly the group’s flag, Bola Tinubu reportedly insisted that the former head of state did so under the ACN banner. Mr Buhari, however, allegedly complained that this would confuse his supporters in the north who have been primed to vote for the CPC.
Riding high
The parties had delayed more talks on the alliance until after the parliamentary elections in order to better gauge their mutual support base. The results proved conclusively that the ACN, which swept the west and Edo State, would be invaluable to Mr Buhari if he hoped to win the 25 percent of votes in two-thirds of the 36 states in order to become president. The source said that although Mr. Buhari was fairly certain that he could get the majority vote by winning the northwest — which boasts the largest voting bloc, and some north-central states — he was not so certain that he would get the required spread.
Last Saturday’s election also emboldened the ACN, which was riding high on its victory over PDP in the southwest. The CPC, which had not shown a similar dominance in the north, was, however, sure that its fortune would increase tremendously with Saturday’s election.
“We have never pretended that our joker is the personality of General Buhari himself. And he is the one that most of our supporters are waiting to vote for,” said a source in the CPC.
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