That makes Yar'Adua particularly vulnerable to the petitions launched against him by his presidential rivals General Muhammadu Buhari and sacked Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
Vol 48 No 23 |
- NIGERIA
- ANALYSIS
The most important case is the complaint by opposition presidential candidates Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar against the election of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua...
Yet many other ex-military politicians such as former generals Ibrahim Babangida and Muhammadu Buhari are far from reconciled to his presidency...
The opposition All Nigeria People's Party candidate General Muhammadu Buhari was particularly embittered because he had received personal assurances from Obasanjo that the elections would be free and the electoral commission properly accountable...
6 million; Muhammadu Buhari and the All Nigeria People's Party 6...
General Muhammadu Buhari presidential candidate of the All Nigeria People's Party is widely regarded as a competent and responsible if austere candidate after his stint as military leader from 1983-85...
In Katsina there is fierce opposition to the choice for gubernatorial candidate PDP Deputy Chairman Ibrahim Shema; Katsina is the home State both of Yar'Adua and of his rival General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Nigeria People's Party...
Both the leading candidates Umaru Yar'Adua and Muhammadu Buhari harbour doubts about the primacy given to market-oriented policies by the Obasanjo government...
Muhammadu Buhari standing for the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) was Shehu's best friend at school and joined the army with him in 1962...
' Former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85) standing for the All Nigeria People's Party has put in a strong early showing and is understood to have opened a dialogue with his former nemesis but key power broker Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93) who toppled him in 1985...