Atiku Abubakar, former Vice-President, has pledged to give 40 percent of appointments in his cabinet to the youth if he wins the 2019 presidential election.He made the pledge on Sunday at the inauguration of the national and state executives of a pro-Atiku group, Intellectual Think-Tank for Atiku (ITTA).Atiku, who was represented by Oladimeji Fabiyi, chairman of All Atiku Support Group [...]
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BY REMI OYEYEMI"Great ambition is the passion of a great character" - Napoleon Bonaparte, French EmperorI have met His Excellency, the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar several times. He had come across as someone who actually believes that it is either we save Nigeria now or we allow it to wither. Pinpointing that the choice is obvious, he insisted that [...]
Atiku Global Support Group (AGSG) has appealed to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to concede the 2019 presidential ticket to the former Vice-President.The national pro-Atiku group said on Sunday that the business mogul was the only hope for despaired Nigerians.Atiku Abubakar would ensure unity, safety and provide job opportunities, if he becomes the next president of Nigeria, the group said.Gambo [...]
Aminu Atiku, son of Atiku Abubakar, former Vice-President, allegedly took his son away from ex-wife, Fatima Bolori, after losing custody of his two children on Wednesday.Atiku was said to have snatched his son from the mother, locked him in his car and drove off.The Nation reports that the incident happened around 1:59pm at the Tinubu's Magistrate Court in Lagos, minutes [...]
As the nation groped in fuel darkness during the Yuletide season, the Nobel laureate's distraught words perhaps best described the shame and tragedy of it all. The authorities in Abuja would rather indulge in the profanity of buck-passing, lamented Professor Wole Soyinka. That climate of shame would appear to have grown even more inclement and the midnight children of impunity more [...]
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has threatened to sue Paul Unongo, a leader of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF).Unongo had accused Atiku financing Miyetti Allah, an association of cattle breeders.In a letter addressed to Unongo, Mahmud Magaji, counsel to Atiku, said the accusation "has gravely defamed" his client.He said the former vice-president has served in various capacities and his interests are [...]
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the only party that will transform the country and take its economy back to prosperity.Speaking through Aliyu Ibn Abbas, chairman, Atiku Care Foundation, Abubakar said the PDP would redeem the common man from the "fraudulent practices" of the All Progressives Congress (APC).Abbas was in Kaduna to represent Abubakar at a [...]
Babafemi Ojudu, special adviser to the president on political matters, says former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar is playing his last political card.Ojudu said this when he appeared on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme.Describing the former vice-president as a serial defector, he accused Abubakar of being desperate with his presidential ambition.Abubakar had defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after accusing [...]
Atiku is a founding father of the PDP, the ACN and the APC. The promiscuity is legendary. If he wasn't rich enough to dole his way to the heart of things every time he has had to move in with one of his 'offsprings', he would quite easily have been the most hated politician in Nigerian politics. It was barely [...]
Sometimes we are exasperated by the internal politics of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that we forget that there will be no way to simply ask PDP to shake off the stench.That PDP’s convention was riven by disagreements over “unity list” shouldn’t be a surprise, the architects of power in the grand old party have lived by swords and stones [...]
I do have nothing against the man Atiku Abubakar—as he switches political parties as a diaper. Politicians all over the world are fond of switching political parties to achieve their political dreams and aspirations. Even in the United States of America, politicians do switch political parties, so vilifying Atiku for returning to the party he once called “irredeemable” four (4) [...]
Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo state, says Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), seems to be crying more than the bereaved over an issue relating to the party's presidential ticket in 2019.Addressing reporters in Akure, Ondo state capital, last month, Tinubu disagreed with Okorocha, who had earlier said 34 governors had endorsed Buhari's re-election.The national leader said [...]
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to focus on sacking a government that "deceived Nigerians" to get power.He said this while congratulating Uche Secondus over his emergence as national chairman of the PDP.The former vice-president said Nigerians look up to the PDP to rescue them from the "misgovernment" of the All Progressives Congress (APC)."Our great party, the [...]
Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar says the All Progressives Congress (APC) promised to fight corruption but instead has delivered a war on the opposition.Atiku said this on Saturday at the PDP's national elective convention at Eagle square Abuja.The former vice-president said under current APC administration, the country is not working and the people are jobless.He said the PDP has a lot [...]
Timi Frank, deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar left the ruling party because of John Oyegun, national chairman.Frank said this in reaction to a comment credited to Oyegun that Atiku's exit from APC won't lead to a massive defection from the ruling party.In a statement on Wednesday, Frank said the chairman [...]
Last week, I argued that the media was very instrumental to the rise of former president Goodluck Jonathan from grass to grace, and his fall from grace to Otuoke. The same media was responsible for the framing of President Muhammadu Buhari, the general who became the perfect sweetheart needed to kick Jonathan out of office.I showed how Buhari went from [...]
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