Economic policy is steered by on one hand Chief Philip Asiodu former Petroleum Minister and now Chief Economics Advisor to the President and by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on the other...
Vol 41 No 10 |
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Contract terms: to arrange meetings for Vice-President Atiku Abubakar during his visit to IMF and World Bank...
Now the National Assembly can assert itself: it has already cried foul about the proposed sale of the state equity in the African Petroleum distribution company to Chief Okocha's Sadiq Petroleum: the government rejected Okocha's bid because it was too low but Assembly members didn't like it because of his purported friendship with Vice-President Atiku Abubakar...
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar led negotiations with the governors and persuaded them to back down - at least for now...
The proposal for a regional state of emergency was made not by Obasanjo but by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar a northerner closely allied to ex-General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau the National Security Advisor...
It seems at first that Obasanjo was neutral though his Vice-President Atiku Abubakar favoured Okadigbo...
At the FT conference Vice-President-elect Atiku Abubakar said the incoming administration was not in a position to prevent such activities but pledged a review once the new government was in place...
As a south-westerner himself with his running mate Atiku Abubakar from the north-eastern Adamawa State the gaps are obvious: key roles must be found for candidates from Igboland in the south-east from the emirates of the north-west from the powerful and vocal Middle-belt of the country and from the oil-producing Niger Delta the so-called ‘South-South’...