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As INEC announced the delay delegates for the opposition People's Democratic Party were converging on Abuja to hold their convention which chose former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as their presidential candidate late on 28 May...
But in the wake of Atiku Abubakar's emergence as the main opposition candidate some officials around the Presidency in Aso Rock have started pushing the candidacy of Senate President Ahmad Lawan as a strong contender for the APC...
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That suggests that former Vice-President and billionaire businessman Atiku Abubakar from Adamawa state in the north-east is set to win the party nomination again...
On that basis party veterans point to two frontrunners – ex-governor of Lagos Bola Tinubu for the APC and ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar (AC Vol 63 No 8 Vice-President Osinbajo's bid challenges APC leader Tinubu and bank governor Emefiele)...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar a multi-millionaire with extensive trading and oil logistics interests is ahead of the field for the PDP nomination...
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That is bad news for the PDP's top presidential contenders from the north former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar from Adamawa State and Sokoto State governor Aminu Tambuwal...
Obasanjo wants to shape the next elections after reluctantly backing his former deputy Atiku Abubakar in a failed run in 2019...
And former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has once more thrown his hat in the ring...
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Atiku Abubakar Vice-President from 1999 to 2007 who ran for the PDP in 2019 (after seeking the APC nomination four years earlier) may be past his sell-by date...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar who ran against Buhari in the 2019 elections donated 50 million naira (US$128 000) and suggested that an abandoned cancer centre in Abuja be converted to an isolation camp...
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That means the frontrunners will be multi-millionaire and last year's failed candidate Atiku Abubakar or someone close to Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike who last year backed Sokoto State governor Aminu Tambuwal...
Also missing was former Vice-President and PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar silent since losing his petition challenging Muhammadu Buhari's re-election at the Supreme Court in October (AC Vol 60 No 8 Atiku takes his beef to DC)...
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