An unintended consequence of the malfeasance on 11 November is that it has encouraged the two main opposition parties – the People's Democratic Party under Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party under Peter Obi – to open discussions about cooperation and merger in the face of the APC juggernaut...
Wike who serves as minister of the federal capital had led a group of four rebel PDP governors against the party's presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar insisting that Atiku ought not to have contested because he was a northerner and it was the turn of the south to produce the President (AC Vol 64 No 16 Amid protests over spiralling prices Tinubu names new team)...
The case brought before the Supreme Court by rival presidential candidates Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi challenging Tinubu's election had already been thrown out by the Elections Petition Court in September (AC Vol 64 No 5 Tinubu's last trick: from godfather to Kabiyesi)...
A similar petition from the other leading presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar was expected to meet the same fate in the Appeal Court...
Wike became disillusioned with the PDP before this year's election claiming he was rigged out of its presidential nomination by supporters of Atiku Abubakar...
Despite some grouses from rival presidential candidates Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party opposition politicians haven't organised any effective pushback to the reforms...
Ending the fuel subsidy was a policy plank on which the top three candidates – Tinubu Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi – agreed...
8 million votes against the PDP's Atiku Abubakar with 6...
Makinde is a member of the G-5 governors' grouping which is at loggerheads with the PDP's presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar...
At one end of the stage stands the official winner Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose victory was announced in the darkest hour before dawn on 1 March; at the other the thwarted opposition candidates Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi who are railing against systemic electoral fraud and threaten legal appeals to the Supreme Court (Dispatches 28/2/23 Tinubu edges to Presidential win as opposition and activists dispute the results)...
Older and more conservative voters are said to favour the veteran candidates Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose official age is 70 of the ruling All Progressives' Congress or Atiku Abubakar 76 of the opposition People's Democratic Party...