Muhammadu Buhari military ruler (1983-85) and candidate of the All Nigeria People's Party and Atiku Abubakar ex-Vice-President (1999-2007) and candidate of the Action Congress are asking the court to order a re-run of the election on grounds of fraud and corruption...
Vol 49 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Losing candidates Muhammadu Buhari military ruler in 1983-85 and standard-bearer of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) and Atiku Abubakar Vice-President in 1999-2007 who stood for his own Action Congress have petitioned the Court demanding a rerun...
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...
Atiku Abubakar with 2...
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...
They note that while in office he failed to secure the impeachment of his estranged deputy Atiku Abubakar was unable to change the constitution to allow a third term could not impose his favoured choice as the PDP presidential candidate and did not stop Atiku from running for a rival party...
Supporters of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar believe a newly independent judiciary will be unable to endorse the flawed April elections...
Those who are on the run or out of the country include Joshua Dariye (Plateau State) who was once thrown out of Government House by Obasanjo arrested in London then impeached at home; Boni Haruna (Adamawa) a political godson of outgoing Vice-President Atiku Abubakar (now in the USA); Chimaroke Nnamani (Enugu) and Saminu Turaki (Jigawa)...
Kingibe blocked the nomination of Shehu Yar'Adua's then protégé Atiku Abubakar as running mate in 1992-93...
6 mn; and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and the Action Congress 2...
CRACKS IN THE GRANITE Estranged Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and his Action Congress (AC) control a swing vote according to the US poll analysis...
The new Action Congress (AC) has developed beyond its role as a vehicle for Vice-President Atiku Abubakar after his split with the PDP...
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar insists that he remains a candidate in April's presidential elections despite what he describes as 'every effort to destroy' him...