Buhari's calculus was based on his formidable support in the northern states – and the power vacuum there after Abacha had ordered the murder of Shehu Musa Yar'Adua in jail...
Before his struggle with Obasanjo Atiku led the influential People's Democratic Movement (PDM) which was originally built by Shehu Musa Yar'Adua President Umaru Yar'Adua's elder brother who was murdered by General Sani Abacha's assassins in prison in 1997 (AC Vol 38 No 25 After Yar'Adua)...
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Under the Goodluck Jonathan and Shehu Musa Yar'Adua governments the National Assembly failed even to vote on draft legislation...
Within minutes of their storming out they were addressing a press conference at the nearby Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Centre (AC Vol 47 No 9 Monster party & Veteran rebels)...
President Goodluck Jonathan from Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta faces a strong challenge from former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar the consummate political networker whose collaboration with the late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua in the 1990s laid the foundations of the PDP...
President Goodluck Jonathan from Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta faces a strong challenge from former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar the consummate political networker whose collaboration with the late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua in the 1990s laid the foundations of the PDP...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s return to the PDP is an attempt to regain control of the People’s Democratic Movement the network set up by the late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua which lay the basis for the PDP...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s return to the PDP is an attempt to regain control of the People’s Democratic Movement the network set up by the late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua which lay the basis for the PDP...
Baba is so loyal to the family that he got himself imprisoned with the late President Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Umaru’s elder brother who was gaoled by Abacha on a fictitious coup charge...
Baba is so loyal to the family that he got himself imprisoned with the late President Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Umaru’s elder brother who was gaoled by Abacha on a fictitious coup charge...
Ahead of the 1999 elections he assumed the leadership of the governing People's Democratic Party after the death of Shehu Musa Yar'Adua whose political machinery made up its core...
Shehu Yar'Adua brother of the incumbent President wanted to be the SDP's presidential candidate and Anenih became National Director of his campaign...
Sani Abacha who put Shehu Yar'Adua in gaol where he died of poisoning...
In Buhari's hierarchy of infamy Babangida and Obasanjo rank far higher than Yar'Adua the younger brother of his school friend Shehu Musa Yar'Adua...