Atiku Abubakar

And former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has once more thrown his hat in the ring...

Atiku Abubakar Vice-President from 1999 to 2007 who ran for the PDP in 2019 (after seeking the APC nomination four years earlier) may be past his sell-by date...

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar who ran against Buhari in the 2019 elections donated 50 million naira (US$128 000) and suggested that an abandoned cancer centre in Abuja be converted to an isolation camp...

That means the frontrunners will be multi-millionaire and last year's failed candidate Atiku Abubakar or someone close to Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike who last year backed Sokoto State governor Aminu Tambuwal...

Also missing was former Vice-President and PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar silent since losing his petition challenging Muhammadu Buhari's re-election at the Supreme Court in October (AC Vol 60 No 8 Atiku takes his beef to DC)...

If Bola Tinubu and the Alake can be relied on to back the current management at Oando they face a powerful foe in Gabriel Volpi a major shareholder in the company and also a former business associate of opposition presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar...

Another leading shareholder in Intel is former vice president Atiku Abubakar a serial presidential contender...

Atiku Abubakar is sticking by his claims of fraud in the Nigerian presidential election...

Promising to call evidence from forensic scientists statisticians and psephologists the People's Democratic Party presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar filed his petition challenging the official results of the 23 February election that gave Muhammadu Buhari another term in the presidency (AC Vol 60 No 5 The stayaway election)...

Although Muhammadu Buhari comfortably defeated his main challenger Atiku Abubakar in presidential elections on 23 February voter turnout was just 35...

The furore comes just as signs are appearing that opposition presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar has been gaining ground on Buhari in recent weeks...