El-Rufai's supporters say the committee's verdict reflects the interests of the Senate hierarchy plus those of Obasanjo and his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar with whom he is increasingly at odds...
Ngige was kept in a hotel room from which he managed to alert Vice-President Atiku Abubakar using a smuggled telephone...
Many argue convincingly that Obasanjo would not have needed to rig the elections to win but the imperatives of Nigeria's naira politics masterminded by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar demanded it...
The ANPP reported gains in other northern states including Kaduna and in Vice-President Atiku Abubakar's home state of Adamawa where his own electoral ward is said to have voted ANPP...
Obasanjo's fightback at the presidential primaries (unexpectedly boosted by his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar) was the riposte to the party campaign against him...
Obasanjo and his running mate Atiku Abubakar secured support from the 21 PDP state governors by a mix of promises and threats...
The North-East Atiku Abubakar from Adamawa wields influence in the north-east...
There they agreed on a strategy to back Ekwueme and to persuade the current Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to stand as his running mate...
The two main candidates for the PDP nomination will be the incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo 65 whose running-mate will be the current Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and a former Vice-President from the Second Republic Alex Ekwueme 70 a respected Igbo elder statesman...
Most recently suspicions have shifted to Vice-President Atiku Abubakar who has been accused of (but denies) covertly backing the National Assembly...
In Anambra State factions backed by Emeka Offor boss of Chrome Energy and business fixer for Vice-President Atiku Abubakar are fighting the incumbent Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju...