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...
He faces problems on many fronts starting with a bruising battle to win the presidential nomination of the governing People's Democratic Party (PDP) against his rival former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
On paper that could favour any of the northern contenders for the PDP’s nomination: ex-military leader Babangida former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former head of military intelligence Aliyu Mohammed Gusau...
Although Jonathan's office dismissed Okah's claims as fantasy the political temperature is rising ahead of the ruling People's Democratic Party's primary elections that will pit Jonathan against three northern candidates - former military leader General Ibrahim Babangida former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former head of military intelligence Aliyu Mohammed Gusau...
All of the candidates have held power and the two frontrunners – former military leader General Ibrahim Babangida (aka IBB) and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar – had controversial tenures which saw them forced from power...
The three other competitors for the PDP ticket are former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar Kwara State Governor Abubakar Bukola Saraki and retired Lieutenant General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau now a former National Security Advisor...
The PDP primaries pitting Jonathan from the Niger Delta against two northern candidates General Ibrahim Babangida and Atiku Abubakar are likely to be almost as hard fought as the final election...
Two rivals from northern Nigeria – former military leader General Ibrahim Babangida and ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar – have already announced that they will contest the ticket...
There is little love lost between him and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar who was a failed presidential candidate for the AC...
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...
So would Atiku Abubakar former Deputy Director of Customs and Excise now returned to the PDP...
