However with his own supporters in Kaduna uneasy over the prospective choice in 2007 between Atiku Abubakar the current Vice-President and retired general and former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida no one is ruling out Buhari's chances of standing again or even of an appeal for popular support against the current government...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Frontrunners vying to take over the governing People's Democratic Party after Obasanjo are Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former military leader Ibrahim Babangida...
At last weekend's conference of the governing People's Democratic Party in Abuja Obasanjo lashed out at ambitious lieutenants such as Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Governor Orji Kalu now campaigning for the presidential ticket in 2007...
Vol 44 No 22 |
- GHANA
- NIGERIA
Kupolukun's rival for the top job Greg Ero was close to Obasanjo's critic Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
' On 27 October UN chiefs held an urgent meeting with Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to seek government intervention to end the 'impasse around vaccine safety'...
El-Rufai's supporters say the committee's verdict reflects the interests of the Senate hierarchy plus those of Obasanjo and his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar with whom he is increasingly at odds...
Ngige was kept in a hotel room from which he managed to alert Vice-President Atiku Abubakar using a smuggled telephone...
Many argue convincingly that Obasanjo would not have needed to rig the elections to win but the imperatives of Nigeria's naira politics masterminded by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar demanded it...
The ANPP reported gains in other northern states including Kaduna and in Vice-President Atiku Abubakar's home state of Adamawa where his own electoral ward is said to have voted ANPP...
Obasanjo's fightback at the presidential primaries (unexpectedly boosted by his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar) was the riposte to the party campaign against him...