If the battle between President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Atiku Abubakar is fired by the presidential race in 2007 what will happen if neither of them runs...
Already there are complaints over the alleged favour shown to Obasanjo-supporters the marginalisation of northern interests and in particular the absence of supporters of Obasanjo's estranged Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
It's conceivable that both former military leader Ibrahim Babangida and current Vice-President Atiku Abubakar might be persuaded to cooperate given certain assurances of a political and personal kind...
No law yet regulates the 36 opulent state governors who are formidable enemies since most prefer Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to Obasanjo...
Ogbeh's supporters strongly back Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the party's presidential candidate for 2007...
Obasanjo won this latest trial of strength in the ruling party but Ogbeh still has influence there and through the political network that Atiku Abubakar inherited from the late Shehu Musa Yar'Adua...
Vol 46 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Battle lines for 2007 are already being drawn between Vice President Atiku Abubakar former President Ibrahim Babangida and Mohammed Buba Marwa with little popular enthusiasm...
He is thought to be on poor terms with Vice-President Atiku Abubakar (AC Vol 45 No 2)...
However with his own supporters in Kaduna uneasy over the prospective choice in 2007 between Atiku Abubakar the current Vice-President and retired general and former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida no one is ruling out Buhari's chances of standing again or even of an appeal for popular support against the current government...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Frontrunners vying to take over the governing People's Democratic Party after Obasanjo are Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former military leader Ibrahim Babangida...
At last weekend's conference of the governing People's Democratic Party in Abuja Obasanjo lashed out at ambitious lieutenants such as Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Governor Orji Kalu now campaigning for the presidential ticket in 2007...