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Nigeria

Atiku Abubakar

Date of Birth: 25 November 1946


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Gaius says goodbye

Kupolukun's rival for the top job Greg Ero was close to Obasanjo's critic Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...


Polio politics

' On 27 October UN chiefs held an urgent meeting with Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to seek government intervention to end the 'impasse around vaccine safety'...


No end to the affair

El-Rufai's supporters say the committee's verdict reflects the interests of the Senate hierarchy plus those of Obasanjo and his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar with whom he is increasingly at odds...


Mob rule

Ngige was kept in a hotel room from which he managed to alert Vice-President Atiku Abubakar using a smuggled telephone...


The naira republic wins again

Many argue convincingly that Obasanjo would not have needed to rig the elections to win but the imperatives of Nigeria's naira politics masterminded by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar demanded it...


North-south divide

The ANPP reported gains in other northern states including Kaduna and in Vice-President Atiku Abubakar's home state of Adamawa where his own electoral ward is said to have voted ANPP...


Outgunning the opposition

Obasanjo's fightback at the presidential primaries (unexpectedly boosted by his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar) was the riposte to the party campaign against him...


The battle in the states

Obasanjo and his running mate Atiku Abubakar secured support from the 21 PDP state governors by a mix of promises and threats...

The North-East Atiku Abubakar from Adamawa wields influence in the north-east...


A victory for the generals

There they agreed on a strategy to back Ekwueme and to persuade the current Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to stand as his running mate...


Election year

The two main candidates for the PDP nomination will be the incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo 65 whose running-mate will be the current Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and a former Vice-President from the Second Republic Alex Ekwueme 70 a respected Igbo elder statesman...


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