Doubts aside, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) is yet to recover from its loss to the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the 2015 polls. The PDP lost the presidency and also had its numerical strength shrunken in government houses, national parliament and state assemblies across the nation. For a party which was on a smooth sail during the first 16 …

I’ve paid quite some attention in recent years to espousing the person, ideals and vision of Atiku Abubakar. A colourful and outspoken politician and statesman, he was the first Vice President of the present Fourth Republic who was in office from May 1999 to May 2007 and deputy to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He has been celebrated in places for …

The Presidency and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar at the weekend engaged exchange of words over the state of the economy, particularly on currency fluctuation and poverty. Atiku, who was the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last year’s general elections, said that the “wrong policies of the (Bola) Tinubu administration continue to cause untold pain …

Amid the soaring rate of inflation, the Presidency on Sunday claimed that Nigerians are enjoying the lowest living costs in Africa. It also said the administration of President Bola Tinubu was focused on “solving our economic and security challenges”, and while admitting that his reforms would cause “immediate pains, but will usher in an era of prosperity in the medium …

The Presidency as described as “reckless” the statement of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s statement accusing President Bola Tinubu of “playing fiddle while Nigeria is drowning in the ocean of insecurity” and economic challenges. “To imagine that the Commander-in-Chief is on a so-called private visit while kidnappers kill a nursing mother and grandmother in Abuja for …

A spokesman for the campaign organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in last year’s presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Barrister Daniel Bwala has refuted claims that his declared support for President Bola Tinubu portrayed a betrayal to his former principal. “It’s absolute nonsense for somebody to say because I said I will support President Bola Tinubu, therefore, I …

Leadership is not a pleasure but a deep and heavy responsibility – George Orwell From the get-go, he set his eyes on the horizon, visualizing the big portrait that would later show him to the world as a leader, mentor, politician, businessman, and fulfilled family man. The journey was often punctuated by bumps, some of which were big enough to …

His best efforts to observe his birthday quietly as has been his preference over time differed from the thinking of many others. I had indeed asked him two weeks before the date if he would approve of a public presentation of my handy, newly published compendium of essays on him, as part of the event. He intoned that the President …

The Labour Party (LP) has described the merger proposal by 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as a good proposal that should be considered. But the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) said it could only accept the proposal if Atiku would support its 2023 presidential candidate, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, to wrest power from the ruling …

There appears to be a grand design to ruin the judiciary and the protagonists are, in my opinion, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 25th February, 2023 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; and his Labour Party counterpart, Mr. Peter Obi. Both men lost the election to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola …