In January he held a presidential breakfast at Aso Rock to which he invited business moguls state governors (including Rivers State's Peter Odili under investigation for corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the subject of a new damning report by Human Rights Watch) politicians officials and a smattering of young millionaires who have thrived during the Obasanjo years...
' Sources at the presidency have indicated that Obasanjo may have passed over El-Rufai Babagana Kingibe Adamu Mu'azu (Bauchi State Governor) Peter Odili (Rivers) Ahmed Makarfi (Kaduna) and other mooted favourites in favour of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua the Governor of Katsina state and brother of the late Shehu Musa Yar'Adua who served as Obasanjo's deputy in the 1976-79 military regime...
Lining up Then there is a raft of mainstream candidates who have already picked up their presidential nomination forms from the PDP's secretariat in Abuja: former Minister of Information and Obasanjo advisor Jerry Gana (Niger State); Governor Ahmed Makarfi (Kaduna); Governor Peter Odili (Rivers); former Military Administrator for Lagos State Gen...
' He says he has a file on Rivers State Governor Peter Odili who has been enjoying foreign trips and inviting foreign journalists to film him...
Rivers' Governor Peter Odili's budget for the year gives a fair idea of his government's priorities...
Among the state governors his favoured candidates include: Peter Odili (Rivers State); Ahmadu Adamu Mu'azu (Bauchi); Donald Duke (Cross River); and Ahmed Makarfi (Kaduna)...
He may yet withdraw from the third term debacle and throw his weight behind a younger candidate such as former Lagos State Governor Brigadier Buba Marwa Bauchi State Goveror Adamu Muazu or even Rivers State Governor Peter Odili...
If he is excluded a strong candidate he might approve of is Peter Odili...
Obasanjo's personal favourite is understood to be the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nasir el-Rufai and he might also want to promote the chances of his ally Rivers State Governor Peter Odili...
Rivers: Peter Odili (PDP) was for but this week spoke out against; close to Obasanjo; corruption allegations...
The political allegiances of its state governors range from full support for President Obasanjo from Rivers State's Peter Odili through qualified support from Cross Rivers' David Duke to long-standing animosity (with ambiguity) from Delta State's James Ibori...
Reporters kept receiving mysterious e-mails from a group claiming to represent Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari the Rivers State militant whose hatred for Governor Peter Odili prompted the 2004 Delta crisis...
