Vol 44 No 22 |
- GHANA
- NIGERIA
Kupolukun's rival for the top job Greg Ero was close to Obasanjo's critic Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
' 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'...
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...
Ngige was kept in a hotel room from which he managed to alert Vice-President Atiku Abubakar using a smuggled telephone...
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...
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...
Obasanjo's fightback at the presidential primaries (unexpectedly boosted by his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar) was the riposte to the party campaign against him...
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...
There they agreed on a strategy to back Ekwueme and to persuade the current Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to stand as his running mate...
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...