A decade later it backed the re-election ticket of President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar because of 'the need for continuity' according to Nigerian Stock Exchange Director General Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke...
Yar'Adua's friend and business associate Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has inherited his political network and is implacably opposed to Obasanjo's continued rule...
President Olusegun Obasanjo's advisors openly demanded the immediate resignation of Vice-President Atiku Abubakar after he publicly opposed the campaign to change the constitution to allow Obasanjo to stand for a third term in the national elections in 2007...
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says weapons are coming 'from abroad' namely from Brazil and China...
This was strange considering the enmity between the two men and Ibori's supposed closeness to Obasanjo's arch-foe Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
Vol 47 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Allegations against Obasanjo's political rivals - Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Babangida - bring the anti-corruption campaign into line with the presidential campaign...
That may be linked with the fact that Oando Chairman Major General Mohammed Magoro is a close friend of both Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and is a member of the governing People's Democratic Party's Board of Trustees...
He wants both to make his anti-corruption campaign credible and to scupper the presidential ambitions of his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
He hopes to run for the vice-presidency in 2007 on a ticket headed by Atiku Abubakar...
Hopes of a ceasefire or even a deal between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar have evaporated despite high level attempts at reconciliation (AC Vol 46 No 18)...
Locked in a deadly embrace President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Atiku Abubakar look like two men struggling on a cliff edge as they try to hurl each other into the ravine below...