Atiku Abubakar

Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has long maintained that he should be the natural choice of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) to take over from President Olusegun Obasanjo...

Atiku Abubakar's choice Abubakar could leave the PDP and use another party...

While President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar sling mud at each other the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) an official anti-corruption body led by Nuhu Ribadu has given Nigerians a taste of more to come and of the manner in which the political elite has operated state accounts in recent years...

The real rivalry is the battle of wits between the President and the two leading presidential would-bes in his party Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and the former military leader General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida...

More plausibly two presidential frontrunners Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former military leader Ibrahim Babangida applauded the Senate's courage...

The third-term campaign sharpened that perception and helped northern candidates who opposed Obasanjo especially Vice-President Atiku Abubakar with whom Obasanjo shares a deep mutual loathing...

A decade later it backed the re-election ticket of President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar because of 'the need for continuity' according to Nigerian Stock Exchange Director General Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke...

Yar'Adua's friend and business associate Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has inherited his political network and is implacably opposed to Obasanjo's continued rule...

President Olusegun Obasanjo's advisors openly demanded the immediate resignation of Vice-President Atiku Abubakar after he publicly opposed the campaign to change the constitution to allow Obasanjo to stand for a third term in the national elections in 2007...

Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says weapons are coming 'from abroad' namely from Brazil and China...

This was strange considering the enmity between the two men and Ibori's supposed closeness to Obasanjo's arch-foe Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...

Allegations against Obasanjo's political rivals - Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Babangida - bring the anti-corruption campaign into line with the presidential campaign...