Political grandees are backing either Bola Ahmed Tinubu or Atiku Abubakar respectively the presidential candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...

The flurry of secret meetings between senior Nigerian politicians in Paris and London this week points to trouble for presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and his Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)...

The PDP's presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar was accused of deleting social media posts condemning the murder after he was told such comments could cost him millions of votes...

The establishment insists that Obi stands no chance against the two main parties' septuagenarian candidates Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar veteran politicians who each have at least a hundred times more wealth at their disposal than Obi (AC Vol 63 No 15 Presidential race tightens after flagbearers pick running mates)...

The longest-ever presidential election campaign in Nigerian history is into its next more intense phase after the three leading candidates – Atiku Abubakar Peter Obi and Bola Ahmed Tinubu – have named their running mates...

A month after their emergence as presidential candidates the economic programmes of Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar extolling the virtues of untrammelled market economics face more serious scrutiny than their chequered business histories (AC Vol 63 No 12 Rival parties set up a battle of the oligarchs)...

His supporters are targeting Atiku Abubakar candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) which takes most of its votes from the south-east and the south-south...

They shut down trading at Alaba market in Lagos one of the biggest in the country to allow the workers to register and have used similar tactics across the south-south and south-east always targeting those younger voters unimpressed by the front-running candidates Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar...

The ease with which Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar defeated their rivals to win their parties' presidential nominations for next February's elections highlights their similarities – super-rich politicians who have spent three decades building up their national networks...