Vice-President Atiku Abubakar insists that he remains a candidate in April's presidential elections despite what he describes as 'every effort to destroy' him...
If Atiku Abubakar has been correctly indicted for embezzlement he is not eligible to stand as a candidate in April's presidential elections...
Buhari has the backing of five other smaller parties including Vice-President Atiku Abubakar's Action Congress...
Atiku Abubakar embattled Vice-President and standard-bearer of the Action Congress was his political protégé and business partner...
The three main parties all have their candidates with Vice-President Atiku Abubakar the last to take a running mate in the shape of former Anambra State Deputy Governor Okechukwu Ude...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Yet the key focus will be on the presidency with three leading contenders: from Katsina in the far north Umaru Yar’Adua who stands for the governing People’s Democratic Party; Muhammadu Buhari for the All Nigeria People’s Party; Atiku Abubakar President Olusegun Obasanjo’s estranged deputy and like his rivals a Muslim northerner picked up the Action Congress nomination in late December...
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar launched his campaign for the presidency in Abuja on 25 November insisting that he could win elections due next April despite the open hostility of the incumbent Olusegun Obasanjo his suspension from the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and pending corruption charges...
This is a big change from the position before the 2003 elections when Obasanjo relied heavily on the good offices of his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and his powerful northern network to bring in the critical support from state governors for his renomination as the PDP's presidential candidate...
Obvious legal complications surround the personality war between President Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
As the net closes in on those state governors accused of corruption and fraud President Olusegun Obasanjo's position has strengthened markedly against his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and most other would-be presidential candidates in next year's national elections...
