In August 2018, Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, said former President Olusegun Obasanjo “knelt” before ex-vice-president Atiku Abubakar in 2003. Naturenex recalls that the renowned playwright said Obasanjo begged Atiku in a bid to emerge as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer and run for re-election in the 2003 election. Soyinka made the Read more…
In his latest onslaught against the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, Governor Nyesom Wike has sealed off the Rivers State Atiku/Okowa campaign office. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers had written an application seeking approval to use the office premise for its political activities. The application had Read more…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has told President Muhammadu Buhari not to waste precious time campaigning for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as it is manifestly clear that Nigerians across the board have roundly rejected him. Read more…
The Federal Government has slammed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for saying he would reopen all Nigerian borders if elected as Pres… The Federal Government has slammed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for saying he would reopen all Nigerian borders if elected as President of Nigeria in 2023. Atiku had, Read more…
Lagos, Nigeria – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has run for president five times. His current bid to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023 will make his sixth attempt. In an interview published by Financial Times, Atiku said his bid to become Nigeria’s president is a lifelong ambition that he Read more…
The former Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Femi Falani Kayode, says that nobody can stop the IGBOs from producing the President of Nigeria. FFK made this statement while reacting to the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, saying that he is Read more…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, says he will form a government of national unity that will include opposition politicians if elected in 2023. Atiku who describes himself as a unifier made this known in an interview published by Financial Times on Monday, December Read more…
Tragedy was averted when the private jets used by Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign with which it went to campaign in Anambra State caught fire shortly before take-off at the Anambra State International Airport to exit the state. Though the incident happened on Thursday December 15, 2022, it came to public Read more…
Despite its internal crisis, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) loyalists have dismissed the possibility of Governor Nyesom Wike turning his back on the party ahead of the 2023 general election. The main opposition party was reacting to the insinuations that the Rivers state governor and his four other colleagues known Read more…
Like his colleague in the All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) suffered a gaffe at his campaign rally in Jos, Plateau state. At the rally which took place in Rwang Pam township stadium in Jos, the former vice president of Nigeria while Read more…
Fresh information has emerged that there might be a problem brewing in the camp of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Naturenex gathered that former President Olusegun Obasanjo was reported to have slammed some members of a PDP delegation sent to seek his blessings ahead of the election. Party sources who confided in The Nation said Read more…
The Atiku/Okowa Presidential CampaignOrganization has raised alarm over an alleged plot by the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, to incite violence in order to derail the 2023 elections. The spokesperson of the campaign, Kola Ologbodiyan, raised the alarm in a statement he issued in Abuja, on Read more…
There is fresh panic in the camp of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over his chances in the February election, following the latest verbal attack on some of his key allies by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo, at a recent meeting with a PDP delegation at Read more…
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has said that it is not in alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The party is reacting to a report credited to the Secretary of the Board of Trustees. Engr. Buba Galadima, with the claim that the NNPP may go into alliance with Read more…
Some unknown gunmen on Thursday morning, December 8, attacked the resident of Senator Lee Maeba, in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital. Maeba is the River state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council, The Punch reported. Details of the attack on the residence of Lee Maeba, PDP Read more…
Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been dragged to court by Jezie Ekejiuba, a lawyer based in Onitsha, Anambra state, for violation of his rights. The Punch reported that the lawyer is asking the court to disqualify Atiku from contesting the 2023 presidential elections. Read more…
The vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed appeared in an interview on Channels television today where he said that PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu don’t have enough time to finish spending the money they’ve both ‘kept’. According to Channels Television, Read more…
The presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party, Peter Obi and of New Nigeria Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, have shown up for the town hall organised by Arise TV. Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, was listed as one of the participants but Read more…
Obinna Nwosu, a member of the African Democratic Party, ADC and ADC’s House of Representatives candidate for the Ikwuano/Umuahia Federal Constituency come 2023 has revealed why he thinks that the All Progressives Congress and the People’s Democratic Party see Peter Obi as their only opposition ahead of the 2023 presidential Read more…
Data consulting firm, Statisense has released an analysis that shows how three of the leading presidential candidates, Peter Obi, Atiku, and Tinubu have grown on Twitter followers since they declared their presidential ambition. The stat also provided details of the growth in their monthly followers from February to November 2022. Read more…
As the crises facing the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rages on, the party’s presidential candidate is said to have arrived at a far-reaching decision over the party leadership in the southwest region. According to Sun Newspaper, Atiku may have resolved to adopt the new governor of Osun, Ademola Adeleke, Read more…
The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has mocked the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party, Peter Obi. Tinubu lashed out at his competitors during an engagement with Niger Delta stakeholders in Gbaramatu, in Delta State on Friday. On Atiku, Read more…
Daniel Bwala, the spokesperson of the Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign council, has dismissed the claim that non-support of Governor Nyesom Wike for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 election would affect his chances. Wike and 4 other governors known as G5 have been at loggerheads Read more…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Tuesday said then President Goodluck Jonathan pleaded with former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to support his re-election bid in 2015 but the Adamawa-born politician rejected the entreaties of the former Bayelsa governor. Wike stated this when Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State commissioned the Read more…
Efforts by Atiku Abubakar, the presidential flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to enlist the support of former President Goodluck Jonathan in resolving the party’s crisis have hit a brick wall. Atiku, in company with Ifeanyi Okowa, his running mate, had visited Jonathan at his Abuja home on the Read more…
Ahead of the the2023 general election, a new survey conducted in 12 states across the federation has revealed that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar is leading in the north-west and north-east with 59.8% and 50.3% respectively. Naturenex reports that the survey, which was conducted by a Read more…
Members of the G5 governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other aggrieved leaders of the opposition party have said that they are still open to reconciliation with the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Vanguard reports that the aggrieved PDP members agreed that there is a Read more…
• The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has mounted surveillance on politicians and political parties over campaign funding and spending • Also, the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) said it tracked suspicious transactions amounting to N150 trillion in three months • NFIU said the transactions were reported Read more…