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Nigeria: PDP Leaders Divided Over Atiku's Running Mate
Daily Trust, 31 May 2022
The battle for who becomes the running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential election is… Read more »
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Nigeria: Elite Compact in Doubt As Atiku Abubakar's Emergence Blows Presidential Race Wide Open
CFR, 31 May 2022
The outcome of party presidential primaries appears to signal the end of post-military elite political consensus. Read more »
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Nigeria: Atiku Emerges PDP Presidential Candidate for 2023 Election
Premium Times, 29 May 2022
Atiku polled 371 votes while his closest rival, Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, scored 237 votes. Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has again emerged as… Read more »
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Nigeria: Atiku 2023 - Race to Rescue Nigeria Has Began - Oborevwori
Vanguard, 30 May 2022
DELTA State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Governorship flagbearer and Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Sheriff Francis Orohwedor Oborevwori, Sunday, said the race to… Read more »
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Nigeria: Atiku's Emergence, Affront On South - Southern, Middle Belt Leaders
Vanguard, 29 May 2022
LEADERS of thoughts, elder statesmen from four of the six geo-political zones of the country, under the aegis of Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum, SMBLF led by South-South… Read more »
Choice of Atiku Abubakar by Nigeria's PDP Upends Rotation Pact
Nigeria's main opposition, the People's Democratic Party, has selected former vice president Atiku Abubakar as its standard bearer for the 2023 presidential elections. By choosing the 75-year-old politician from the northwest region, the party upended an unwritten understanding among the country's ruling elite to rotate the presidency between the north and south.
Abubakar, who is making his sixth shot at the top post, lost to incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 in the last election, which he claimed was rigged. The PDP governed Nigeria for a decade and a half before then-president Goodluck Jonathan was ousted in 2015 by Buhari, another northerner, who was the candidate of the newly formed the All Progressives Congress.
The next Nigerian president will need to grapple with persistent inflation, slow growth, and high unemployment as the country struggles to recover from its worse recession in four decades in 2020. Bandits and Islamic insurgents also continue to pose a deadly threat.
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has formally declared his intention to contest the presidential election on Read more »
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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered all his ministers who wish to contest the next year's election to resign by May 16. The move could have an impact on the ru Read more »
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected a presidential nomination form bought for him by a group from northern Nigeria. Jonathan's Media Adviser, Ikechukwu ... Read more »
Atiku Abubakar, former Nigerian vice president emerges as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
