Atiku Abubakar

This is partly because three of the main contenders – Bukola Saraki former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Lagos State ex-Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu – have been the subject of detailed corruption investigations...

Both Atiku Abubakar and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso ex-Governor of Kano State are mustering support to block such a move...

The main fissure is between Buhari's supporters and those of former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...

Like many of the PDP party barons such as Atiku Abubakar and Saraki Tinubu failed to get his acolytes into ministerial jobs but he remains a force within the regional APC party...

Other former PDP leaders due to play roles in the new government include former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former or serving state governors Abubakar Bukola Saraki Rabiu Kwankwaso and Rotimi Amaechi...

Buhari won 3 400 of 8 000 votes far ahead of his rivals former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso...

In the wings with an even more fluid view of party alignments is Atiku Abubakar who was PDP Vice-President in 1999-2007...

Former Vice-President and now a leading APC activist in the APC Atiku Abubakar has interests in Oando PLC through his oil services company Intels Nigeria...

Volpi is rumoured to be close to the Angolan political elite and also to former Nigerian Vice-President Atiku Abubakar whom the United States accuses of major money laundering...

His key partners are former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar (from Adamawa State in the north-east) and Abubakar Bukola Saraki (Kwara in the Middle Belt)...

They bring with them the political firepower of the original breakaway governors from northern states – Sule Lamido (Jigawa State) Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu (Niger) Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara) Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano) and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto) – as well as influential former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...

On 5 September ‘General' Reuben Wilson of Bayelsa State head of the Leadership Peace and Cultural Development Initiative issued a statement warning both Atiku Abubakar and Rotimi Amaechi to stop undermining the President...