Everything worked in favour of the penitent Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as it regained its national political stamina through a successful special national convention and presidential primary that threw up Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Atiku's election was both historical and instructive, because he became the second vice president elected on the party's platform to run for the office of president.
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