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...
If Atiku Abubakar has been correctly indicted for embezzlement he is not eligible to stand as a candidate in April's presidential elections...
Buhari has the backing of five other smaller parties including Vice-President Atiku Abubakar's Action Congress...
Atiku Abubakar embattled Vice-President and standard-bearer of the Action Congress was his political protégé and business partner...