[tonsoyo]

IBB has large followership why? because he has stole much and always willing to share his loot, trust Nigerians to want a piece of the national cake in his custody. There is nothing spectacular about IBB, it is just like throwing crumbles of bread in the midst of the pigeons at the Trafalgar Square in London, of course you will be surrounded by hundreds of them. Those he cannot give he creates enabling environment for them to steal.
Saraki looms large in Kwara for the same reason, Adedibu the nuisance of Ibadan for the same reason, with so much atrocities of the Uba clan in Anambra for the same reason, even Adebayo Success the chief thug for NPN in Lagos in 1983 had followership!

Nigeria is an improverished society any manner of character that is willing to share will be treated as a king.

The difference with IBB is that he has a wider reach, and a deeper pocket.