" Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was against Buhari's emergence as our party candidate in 2015... Behind the scene, he was pressurising some of our leaders not to use Buhari as our candidate... It got to a point when Bola Ahmed Tinubu had to confront him thus: ' it is not fair sending me to Buhari. Buhari was one of your junior officers in the army , why don't you call Buhari and let him know how you feel about his intention to be president.    " Some Northern elites and monarchs even warned  APC against fielding Buhari. An aristocratic leader from the North came to Oshogbo , the state capital , to persuade the then governor Rauf Aregbesola , to prevail on them to drop Buhari.     " We decided to go ahead with Buhari because of his charisma and the support he had garnered in his previous attempts."  Chief Bisi Akande