Ignoring exchange rate fluctuations Buhari's successor – whether Bola Tinubu (APC) Atiku Abubakar (People's Democratic Party) or Peter Obi (Labour Party) – could inherit an official debt stock more than double – in nominal terms – the N35...
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Atiku Abubakar one of Tinubu's main rivals joined calls to give people more time...
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Vol 64 No 2 |
- NIGERIA
- BRITAIN
The other major candidate Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) is yet to respond to Chatham House's invitation ahead of the elections on 25 February (AC Vol 64 No 1 Election noise louder but signals weaker)...
A widespread view of Tinubu and the PDP's Atiku Abubakar as oligarchs profiting from decades of professional politics could rebound against them...
Of the presidential hopefuls former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar for the People's Democratic Party (PDP) not only promises major privatisations exchange rate reform and gradually to remove the fuel subsidy he also says he is prepared to request Nigeria's creditors agree to 'debt forgiveness or cancellation' and could suggest a 'flexible payment plan' for domestic creditors...
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The multi-billion dollar campaign platforms launched in the week-ending 22 October of the presidential candidates from the two biggest parties Bola Tinubu for the ruling All Progressives' Congress and Atiku Abubakar for the People's Democratic Party have met with widespread scepticism from voters and civil society organisations...
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Political grandees are backing either Bola Ahmed Tinubu or Atiku Abubakar respectively the presidential candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...
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The flurry of secret meetings between senior Nigerian politicians in Paris and London this week points to trouble for presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and his Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)...
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1 million by Nigeria's former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar in his unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 2019 (AC Vol 58 No 22 Kinshasa-on-the-Potomac)...
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The PDP's presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar was accused of deleting social media posts condemning the murder after he was told such comments could cost him millions of votes...