Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has declared his intention to run in the 2015 presidential election. His media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, said on Friday that Atiku will formally announce his intention to run for the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday, September 24. “This is not about me, it is about our young people.

It is about Nigerians. It is their future, not the past. It is about reforming government, securing the people and reconciling the nation,” Atiku said in a statement released by Shehu. The media said Atiku is of the view that 2015 “is special” and is a potential turning point in Nigeria’s history.

“We need to seize the moment, to give every Nigerian a chance to help re-define Nigeria as a place for them and their children to prosper and feel safe. He says a change is needed now, and he is ready to lead that change,” Shehu added.

The campaign organisation will be headed by Professor Babalola Borisade, former minister of education. Borisade is a long-term associate of Atiku, having been a key member of the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), the platform established by the late Gen. Shehu Musa Yar’Adua. Yar’Adua was deputy to head of state, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, from 1976 to 1979, and made an unsuccessful bid for presidency in 1992. His younger brother, Umaru, was president of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010, when he died in office.

The PDM was celebrated as the brain behind Obasanjo’s ride to power in 1999, with Borisade acknowledged as the “chief strategist”.

Dead on arrrival.

Atiku should go and park well. He has absolutely nothing good to offer this country. He is too desperate!

Same old brain. No influence in Nigeria yet he wants to become the president. I wish another good competent president come in but if Atiku/Buhari/Kwankwaso will be contesting for APC, then I will rather vote for GEJ.

Airtiku still dreaming about Aso rock since 2007. when he was vice president what did he do?? nothing, he only looted our money, he does not have anything reasonable to offer this country.

The right man for the job. We are with you Atiku.
Ride on Turaki, You are the people's choice.

lilprinze: Airtiku still dreaming about Aso rock since 2007. when he was governor of Adamawa state what did he do?Nothing, when he was vice president what did he do?? nothing, he only looted our money, he does not have anything reasonable to offer this country.

You were the one that swear-in Atiku as Governor abi? You no get sense nwanne

Atiku has right to aspire but APC faithfuls has right to deny him the ticket. He should pls sue the person that made him believe that he stands a chance. That person is his worse enemy

alabiyemmy: Dead on arrrival.

Exactly oo , make I follow Obj dey laugh ... ''I dey laugh oo'' !

barcanista: You were the one that swear-in Atiku as Governor abi? You no get sense nwanne

lilprinze:
In 1998 he was elected Governor of
Adamawa State.

Oga he was never a governor even though he was elected. Read your two previous posts again.

lilprinze: if you don't know anything politics please shut up.
Atiku Abubakar (born 25 November
1946) is a Nigerian politician,
businessman and philanthropist, who
served as the 2nd 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,
as the second highest position in the
Service was then known. He retired in
April 1989 and took up full-time
business and 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 May 29, 1999.
Abubakar's second term as Vice
President was marked by a stormy
relationship with President Obasanjo.
His bid to succeed Obasanjo did not
receive the latter's support, and it took
a judgment of the Supreme Court to
allow Abubakar contest after he was
initially disqualified by the Independent
National Electoral Commission on the
grounds that he had been indicted for
financial misconduct by an
investigating panel set up at Obasanjo's
behest. The Supreme Court decision
ordered the electoral commission to
restore Abubakar's name onto the
presidential ballot. Abubakar ran on the
platform of the Action Congress , having
quit the PDP on account of his issues
with President Obasanjo. Atiku lost the
election, placing third after Umaru
Yar'Adua and Muhammadu Buhari of
the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).

Take the correction, Atiku was never sworn in as a governor in Adamawaa