Nigeria: How Atiku Emerged As Buhari's Main Challenger

8 October 2018

Former Vice President Atiku Abubarkar yesterday emerged as the candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), making him the main challenger to President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 presidential election.

At the party's national convention which held at the Adokie Amiesiekema Stadium in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Atiku polled 1,532 votes to defeat his closest rival Sokoto State Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal who scored 693 votes.

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