Atiku Abubakar

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...

They say that since Atiku Abubakar is back in the party he helped to found the contest will not be democratic...

• Atiku Abubakar was Obasanjo’s Vice-President...

The shortcomings of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government have been pointed out by northern grandees such as Generals Muhammadu Buhari Ibrahim Babangida and Aliyu Mohammed Gusau and civilian politicians such as Atiku Abubakar...

Relations remain poor with South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma who is close to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar a sworn enemy of Jonathan’s...

Tinubu has financed the ACN whose presidential candidate in 2007 was Atiku Abubakar...

Jonathan and his campaign team used all the advantages of presidential incumbency against his rival for the nomination Atiku Abubakar...

President Goodluck Jonathan from Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta faces a strong challenge from former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar the consummate political networker whose collaboration with the late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua in the 1990s laid the foundations of the PDP...

He faces problems on many fronts starting with a bruising battle to win the presidential nomination of the governing People's Democratic Party (PDP) against his rival former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...

On paper that could favour any of the northern contenders for the PDP’s nomination: ex-military leader Babangida former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former head of military intelligence Aliyu Mohammed Gusau...