President Olusegun Obasanjo's advisors openly demanded the immediate resignation of Vice-President Atiku Abubakar after he publicly opposed the campaign to change the constitution to allow Obasanjo to stand for a third term in the national elections in 2007...
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says weapons are coming 'from abroad' namely from Brazil and China...
This was strange considering the enmity between the two men and Ibori's supposed closeness to Obasanjo's arch-foe Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
Vol 47 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Allegations against Obasanjo's political rivals - Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Babangida - bring the anti-corruption campaign into line with the presidential campaign...
That may be linked with the fact that Oando Chairman Major General Mohammed Magoro is a close friend of both Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and is a member of the governing People's Democratic Party's Board of Trustees...
He wants both to make his anti-corruption campaign credible and to scupper the presidential ambitions of his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
He hopes to run for the vice-presidency in 2007 on a ticket headed by Atiku Abubakar...
Hopes of a ceasefire or even a deal between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar have evaporated despite high level attempts at reconciliation (AC Vol 46 No 18)...
Locked in a deadly embrace President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Atiku Abubakar look like two men struggling on a cliff edge as they try to hurl each other into the ravine below...
If the battle between President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Atiku Abubakar is fired by the presidential race in 2007 what will happen if neither of them runs...
Already there are complaints over the alleged favour shown to Obasanjo-supporters the marginalisation of northern interests and in particular the absence of supporters of Obasanjo's estranged Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...