General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua's shadow looms large over Nigeria's April presidential elections...
Shehu Musa Yar'Adua the Tafidan Katsina (a title inherited from his father) signed up to civilian politics in 1987 with the formation of the People's Front of Nigeria (PF) at the beginning of the extended and ultimately failed transition programme of then military ruler Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93)...
' Unlikely pair Atiku went into business with Shehu Yar'Adua in the late 1980s and later became one of his most trusted political associates...
Buhari was Shehu Yar'Adua's oldest friend and Shehu named his second son after him (his first son Murtala was named after Murtala Mohammed with whom Yar'Adua served in the 1967-70 civil war and on whose behalf he helped organise the 1975 coup against Yakubu Gowon)...
Such a rapprochement would be very much in Shehu Yar'Adua's style of politics a curious blend of the inclusive and the opportunistic...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Three contenders All three are closely linked to General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Obasanjo’s deputy in the military government in the 1970s who later turned to politics and died in a prison cell under General Sani Abacha’s regime ten years ago...
Three contenders All three are closely linked to General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Obasanjo’s deputy in the military government in the 1970s who later turned to politics and died in a prison cell under General Sani Abacha’s regime ten years ago...
' 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...
He keeps his hold on the PDP because its largest component the People's Democratic Movement (PDM) was launched by him and the family of the late General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua poisoned in gaol under the Sani Abacha regime...
The event was held at the Shehu Musa Yar'Adua centre named after the late General who was deputy leader of Obasanjo's military regime from 1976-79...
Katsina: Usman Shehu Yar'Adua (PDP)...
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...
His comeback was helped by his relationship with the late Shehu Yar'Adua as a business partner in the Yakon Group of Companies and later as a political aide during the transition period of Gen...
This could weaken Atiku's presidential chances and calls into question his value as a northern vote-getter and heir to the late Shehu Musa Yar'Adua's political empire...
Atiku controls the political machine set up by the late Brigadier Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Obasanjo's Chief of General Staff in the 1976-79 military government who was murdered in jail by the Abacha regime...
