Atiku Abubakar

The biggest party-political game-changer will be the effect of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar's defection to the opposition PDP on whose presidential ticket he wants to run...

Even former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar currently a member of the APC is said to be considering a switch back to the PDP to run for president in 2019...

Two contestants are already lining up for that contest: the former Governor of Kano State Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar are both preparing ill-concealed bids for the presidency...

The Arewa Youth-Kanu dispute was serious enough to prompt swift condemnation from key political figures such as Information Minister Lai Mohammed Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai Emir of Katsina Abdulmumini Kabir Usman (who made an impassioned call to protect Igbo citizens in the north) and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...

Senate President Bukola Saraki and Atiku Abubakar the former Vice-President (1999-2007) are the wealthiest and have the richest friends...

A decade ago Shehu was Spokesman for Atiku Abubakar then Vice-President to Olusegun Obasanjo...

These include Osinbajo's old patron Bola Ahmed Tinubu former Governor of Lagos State; Atiku Abubakar ex-Vice-President; Bukola Saraki Senate President; Nasir el-Rufai Kaduna State Governor; and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso ex-Governor of Kano...

This is partly because three of the main contenders – Bukola Saraki former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Lagos State ex-Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu – have been the subject of detailed corruption investigations...

Both Atiku Abubakar and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso ex-Governor of Kano State are mustering support to block such a move...

The main fissure is between Buhari's supporters and those of former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...

Like many of the PDP party barons such as Atiku Abubakar and Saraki Tinubu failed to get his acolytes into ministerial jobs but he remains a force within the regional APC party...

Other former PDP leaders due to play roles in the new government include former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former or serving state governors Abubakar Bukola Saraki Rabiu Kwankwaso and Rotimi Amaechi...