PDP's Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar. |
At
the end of the count of the votes at the presidential primary of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar polled 1,532 to
clinch the ticket.
The
Fulani-born Waziri of Adamawa, businessman and politician beat 11 other
contestants to face another tribesman, incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari in
the February 2019 presidential election.
His
closet rival, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state, scored 693 votes.
Atiku,
a native of a Fulani village of Jada in Adamawa state, was earlier at the end
of votes sorting declared the winner of the primary by his agents Messrs Gbenga
Daniel and Ben Bruce.
With
the win, Atiku Abubakar would have to face incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari
of APC and Mr Donald Duke of Social Democratic Party (SDP) and some others in
the February 2019 presidential election.
About
3,274 delegates were at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt and
took part in the primary which produced the following results.
Atiku
Abubakar – 1,532
Aminu Tambuwal – 693
Bukola Saraki – 317
Sanator David Mark – 35
Sule Lamido – 96
Kabiru Turaki – 65
Donald Jang – 19
Datti Ahmed – 5
Attahiru Bafarawa – 48
Ibrahim Dankwanbo – 111
Ahmed Makarfi – 74
Rabiu Kwankwanso – 158.
Aminu Tambuwal – 693
Bukola Saraki – 317
Sanator David Mark – 35
Sule Lamido – 96
Kabiru Turaki – 65
Donald Jang – 19
Datti Ahmed – 5
Attahiru Bafarawa – 48
Ibrahim Dankwanbo – 111
Ahmed Makarfi – 74
Rabiu Kwankwanso – 158.
72-year-old
Abubakar, a businessman, who served as the second elected vice-president of
Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP), with President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Abubakar
worked in the Nigeria Customs Service for twenty years, rising to become the
Deputy Director before he retired in April 1989 to go into politics.
He
ran for the office of governor in the Gongola State (now Adamawa and Taraba
States) in 1991, and for the Presidency in 1993, placing third after MKO Abiola
and Babagana Kingibe in the Social Democratic Party (SDP) primaries.
In
1998 he was elected Governor of Adamawa State. While still Governor-Elect he
was selected by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate
Olusegun Obasanjo as his running mate.
The
duo went on to win elections in February 1999, and Abubakar was sworn-in as
Nigeria’s second democratically elected vice president on 29 May 1999.
Abubakar’s
second term as Vice President was marked by a stormy relationship with
President Obasanjo.
Abubakar
ran for presidency on the platform of the Action Congress, having quit the PDP
on account of his issues with President Obasanjo.
Abubakar
lost the election, placing third after Umaru Yar’Adua and Muhammadu Buhari of
the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).
He
joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and sought the party’s ticket
in 2014 but lost to President Muhammadu Buhari at the primary held in Lagos.
Abubaker
defected again in May to PDP where he on Sunday clinched the ticket to tackle
incumbent President Buhari in the 2019 presidential election.
Abubakar
is a co-founder of Intels, an oil servicing business with extensive operations
in Nigeria and abroad and founder of the American University of Nigeria (AUN).
•Sourced from NAN.
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