Yet the naira crisis could disrupt all the frontline candidates in the presidential elections: Tinubu as well as Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the previously insignificant Labour Party...

Ignoring exchange rate fluctuations Buhari's successor – whether Bola Tinubu (APC) Atiku Abubakar (People's Democratic Party) or Peter Obi (Labour Party) – could inherit an official debt stock more than double – in nominal terms – the N35...

The other major candidate Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) is yet to respond to Chatham House's invitation ahead of the elections on 25 February (AC Vol 64 No 1 Election noise louder but signals weaker)...

A widespread view of Tinubu and the PDP's Atiku Abubakar as oligarchs profiting from decades of professional politics could rebound against them...

Of the presidential hopefuls former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar for the People's Democratic Party (PDP) not only promises major privatisations exchange rate reform and gradually to remove the fuel subsidy he also says he is prepared to request Nigeria's creditors agree to 'debt forgiveness or cancellation' and could suggest a 'flexible payment plan' for domestic creditors...

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)...