APC’s plans to win 2015Presidency revealed

Leaked documents have indicated that
the newly formed opposition political
party, the All Progressives’ Congress
(APC) is approaching the 2015
elections with all seriousness hav
ing
mapped out a formidable strategy to
dislodge the ruling Peoples’
Democratic Party (PDP) from power.
Despite that the opposition party has,
for some time, blocked avenues of
information leakage as a result of the
embarrassing experience it had over
the issue of its registration, some
members of the party who are
uncomfortable by possible flocking of
PDP members into the APC unwittingly
revealed the grand plan to this paper.
According to the plan, the opposition
has created a geopolitical map of
Nigeria with marking of areas of its
strength and weaknesses. The first
approach, which is already in operation,
is the targeting of the major electoral
and population centres of the federation
with a view to securing plurality
advantage over the ruling party’s
candidate in 2015 such as Kano and Lagos
states, as the two most populous in the
country with a likely combined strength of
between 12 and 14 million votes.
As the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)
already controls Lagos, the opposition is
reported to be investing heavily in
snatching Kano from the ruling party, a
reason said to be behind the on-going push
to get the Kano State governor to defect
to the APC
Insight into the plan also revealed that
the pressure on Governor Rabiu Musa
Kwankwaso to defect has grown so much that
the governor is alleged to be in
communication with General Muhammadu
Buahri. A defection by Kwankwaso, it was
gathered, would leave the opposition with
the control of three dominant political
caucuses in Kano State, namely the Buhari
group, the Ibrahim Shekarau group and the
Kwankwasiya group of Governor Kwankwaso.
With such control,the opposition, with
could then claim close to 80 per cent of
the votes in the state. While the governor
is yet to embrace the signals, reports
indicated that collaboration may have gone
far ahead as recent interactions among the
trio of the state governor, Buhari and
Senator Bola Tinubu indicated.
The map, aside focusing on the population
centres, also reportedly identifies the
core North, spreading from upper North-
East to North-West and the South-West,
including parts of Edo and Delta axis as
zones of influence. The listed states
include Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Jigawa,
Borno, Yobe, Niger, Kano, Katsina, Kaduna,
Bauchi and Gombe, including parts of
Adamawa. The document indicates that the
opposition is banking on the cult, like
support of General Buhari and planned
defection by some PDP chieftains to its
fold.
For the South, the political map is said
to include the six states of the South-
West, namely Osun, Oyo, Ogun, Lagos, Ekiti
and Ondo, in addition to Edo and a
substantial part of Delta State where the
document believes opposition support is
growing on a daily basis. The expectation
is that the alleged marginalisation of the
Yoruba in the Goodluck Jonathan-led
government will dissuade any Yoruba voter
from supporting him come 2015, just as the
strategists also hold that the core North
will politically work against the
president as a group.
It was also learnt that the optimism of
the opposition on the South-West has been
strengthened by the rift between the
president and former President Olusegun
Obasanjo. The opposition is said to
believe that the anger within Obasanjo
group in the South-West will work to its
(opposition’s) advantage.