That may be linked with the fact that Oando Chairman Major General Mohammed Magoro is a close friend of both Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and is a member of the governing People's Democratic Party's Board of Trustees...
He wants both to make his anti-corruption campaign credible and to scupper the presidential ambitions of his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
He hopes to run for the vice-presidency in 2007 on a ticket headed by Atiku Abubakar...
Hopes of a ceasefire or even a deal between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar have evaporated despite high level attempts at reconciliation (AC Vol 46 No 18)...
Locked in a deadly embrace President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Atiku Abubakar look like two men struggling on a cliff edge as they try to hurl each other into the ravine below...
If the battle between President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Atiku Abubakar is fired by the presidential race in 2007 what will happen if neither of them runs...
Already there are complaints over the alleged favour shown to Obasanjo-supporters the marginalisation of northern interests and in particular the absence of supporters of Obasanjo's estranged Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
It's conceivable that both former military leader Ibrahim Babangida and current Vice-President Atiku Abubakar might be persuaded to cooperate given certain assurances of a political and personal kind...
No law yet regulates the 36 opulent state governors who are formidable enemies since most prefer Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to Obasanjo...
Ogbeh's supporters strongly back Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the party's presidential candidate for 2007...
Obasanjo won this latest trial of strength in the ruling party but Ogbeh still has influence there and through the political network that Atiku Abubakar inherited from the late Shehu Musa Yar'Adua...
Vol 46 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Battle lines for 2007 are already being drawn between Vice President Atiku Abubakar former President Ibrahim Babangida and Mohammed Buba Marwa with little popular enthusiasm...
