Atiku Abubakar

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...

Adding further weight to the rebels were former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki a former Kwara Governor who had been eyeing the presidency...

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and other senior politicians have entertained similar notions...

Another would be his former Vice- President Atiku Abubakar with whom he fell out spectacularly a decade ago...

In early February former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar who may run for the top job in the 2014 elections praised China’s engagement in Nigeria adding that early warnings about exercising caution with Beijing have since died down...