Abubakar Bukola Saraki

Despite their promises, northern PDP heavyweights such as Ibrahim Babangida, Aliyu Mohammed Gusau and Abubakar Bukola Saraki failed to back Atiku...

Aliyu Mohammed Gusau and Kwara State Governor Abubakar Bukola Saraki - were going to slug it out at the national convention...

The best hope for the other two candidates, Kwara State Governor Abubakar Bukola Saraki and the former National Security Advisor, Lieutenant Gen...

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...

Few rate the chances of Kwara’s Bukola Saraki for the nomination, although he served as Chairman of the Governors’ Forum and should have been able to mobilise the all-important governors’ support for the contest...

We hear that those northern governors with the best chance of launching a credible presidential campaign voted against Jonathan's candidacy: Abubakar Bukola Saraki, one of the wealthiest contenders (Kwara State); Sule Lamido, another ally of Obasanjo (Jigawa); and Ibrahim Shema, who had a difficult relationship with Yar'Adua (Katsina)...

The presidential ambitions of Bukola Saraki, Chairman of the Governors’ Forum, are as strong as ever...

* The Governors’ Forum, headed by Kwara State Governor Bukola Saraki, insists that the PDP’s presidential candidate be a northerner...

The most likely candidates include Kwara State Governor Abubakar Bukola Saraki (who has cleverly distanced himself from Yar'Adua), Jigawa State Governor Suleu Lamido, Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda and Ribadu as a long shot...

After months of inaction, the Chairman of the Governors’ Forum and Kwara State Governor Abubakar Bukola Saraki in February backed a formal transfer of authority from the ailing Yar’Adua to Jonathan...

We hear Governors Isa Yuguda (Bauchi State), Bukola Saraki (Kwara), Usman Sa’idu Dakingari (Kebbi), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina) and Mohammed Danjuma Goje (Gombe) met Yar’Adua’s group to warn of the heightening political tension over the power vacuum...

The possible candidates for Vice-President remain pretty much the same: state governors Abubakar Bukola Saraki (Kwara), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Isa Yuguda (Bauchi), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina), as well as former director of military intelligence Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (AC Vol 50 No 25)...

On 4 February, all 36 governors, led by Kwara State Governor Bukola Saraki, agreed to urge the National Assembly to pass a motion recognising Jonathan as Acting President...