The former president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has explained why his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), and its presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections, Bola Tinubu, were unsuccessful in Katsina, Buhari’s home state.
Buhari admitted that his party may have underestimated the importance of the election in his state and assumed an easy victory.
Buhari stated this in a memoir titled “Working with Buhari: Reflections of a Special Adviser, Media and Publicity (2015 – 2023)”, written by former Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina.
“My state, Katsina, showed the beauty of the whole system. In the Presidential poll, the APC lost, but they came back to win the governorship.
“Maybe they took things for granted earlier because it was my state, and they thought they would win easily. People do not like being taken for granted,” he said.
The presidential candidate of the APC, Tinubu, was not successful in Katsina, as he was defeated by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Nevertheless, Tinubu managed to win the overall presidential election by defeating Atiku and Peter Obi of the Labour Party.
