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MEET NEXT NIGERIA PRESIDENT ALHAJI ABUBAKAR ATIKU (WAZIRI OF ADAMAWA) ● Background Atiku Abubakar was born on November 25, 1946 to a Fulani trader and farmer Garba Abubakar, and his second wife, Aisha Kande, in Jada village of Adamawa State. Atiku Abubakar became the only child of his parents when his only sister died at infancy. Atiku’s father and mother divorced before his father died in 1957 and his mother remarried. Eventually, his mother died in 1984 of heart attack. Atiku Abubakar could not start school when he ought to because his father was opposed to him obtaining western education. When his not going to school was noticed, his father was arrested and jailed until he paid a fine. Consequently, Atiku Abubakar got registered into Jada Primary School at the age of eight. After his primary school, Atiku was admitted into Adamawa Provincial Secondary School Yola in the year 1960. He later finished his Secondary school in 1965 after he made Grade Three in West African School Certificate Examination. Atiku Abubakar then proceeded to Nigerian Police College, Kaduna. He left the college for a work as Tax Officer in the Regional Ministry of Finance. Later he got admission to study at the School of Hygiene Kano in 1966. In 1967, he graduated with a Diploma. That same year, Atiku Abubakar was admitted for a Law Diploma at Ahmadu Bello University on a scholarship. He graduated in 1969 and got employed in the Nigerian Custom Service that same year. ● Marriages and family While at Idi-Iroko, Abubakar met nineteen-year-old Titilayo Albert, who he secretly married in December 1971, in Lagos, because her family was initially opposed to the union. On 26 October 1972, Titilayo delivered a baby girl they named Fatima. She later gave birth to Adamu, Halima and Aminu. In January 1979 he married Ladi Yakubu as his second wife. "I wanted to expand the Abubakar family. I felt extremely lonely as a child. I had no brother and no sister. I did not want my children to be as lonely as I was. This is why I married more than one wife. My wives are my sisters, my friends, and my advisers and they complement one another," Abubakar has said. He has six children with Ladi: Abba, Atiku, Zainab, Ummi-Hauwa, Maryam and Rukayatu. In 1983 he married his third wife, Princess Rukaiyatu, daughter of the late Lamido of Adamawa. She gave birth to AIsha, Hadiza, Aliyu (named after her late father), Asmau, Mustafa, Laila and Abdulsalam. His fourth wife, Fatima Shettima, followed in 1986. Fatima gave birth to her first child Amina (Meena), Mohammed and two sets of twins Ahmed and Shehu, Zainab and Aisha then her last daughter Hafsat. Abubakar later divorced Ladi, allowing him to marry, as his fourth wife (the maximum permitted him as a Muslim), Jennifer. ● Business Abubakar started out in the real estate business during his early days as a Customs Officer. In 1974 he applied for and received a 31,000 naira loan to build his first house in Yola, which he put up for rent. From proceeds of the rent he purchased another plot, and built a second house. He continued this way, building a sizeable portfolio of property in Yola. In 1981 he moved into agriculture, acquiring 2,500 hectares of land near Yola to start a maize and cotton farm. The business fell on hard times and closed in 1986. "My first foray into agriculture, in the 1980s, ended in failure," he wrote in an April 2014 blog. He then ventured into trading, buying and selling truckloads of rice, flour and sugar. His most important business move came while he was a Customs Officer at the Apapa Ports. Gabrielle Volpi, an Italian businessman in Nigeria, invited him to set up Nigeria Container Services (NICOTES), a logistics company operating within the Ports. NICOTES would go on to provide immense wealth to Abubakar. Conflict of interest accusations have since trailed him on account of his involvement in business while a civil servant, who exercised supervisory authority. On his part, Abubakar has defended the decision, saying his involvement was limited to the ownership of shares (which government rules permitted), and that he was not involved in day-to-day running of the business. NICOTES would later be rebranded INTELS, and go on to feature prominently in accusations of money laundering levelled against Abubakar by the U.S. government during his Vice Presidency. Abubakar's business empire also includes a beverage manufacturing plant in Yola, as well as an animal feed factory. ● Politics Abubakar's first foray into politics was in the early 1980s, when he worked behind-the-scenes on the governorship campaign of Bamanga Tukur, who at that time was managing director of the Nigeria Ports Authority. He canvassed for votes on behalf of Tukur, and also donated to the campaign. Towards the end of his Customs career, he met Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, who had been second-in-command of the military government that ruled Nigeria between 1976 and 1979. Abubakar was drawn by Yar'Adua into the political meetings that were now happening regularly in Yar'Adua's Lagos home. In 1989 Abubakar was elected a National Vice-Chairman of the Peoples Front of Nigeria, the political association led by Yar'Adua, to participate in the transition programme initiated by Head of State Ibrahim Babangida. Abubakar won a seat to represent his constituency at the 1989 Constituent Assembly, set up to decide a new constitution for Nigeria. The People's Front was eventually denied registration by the government (none of the groups that applied was registered), and found a place within the Social Democratic Party, one of the two parties decreed into existence by the regime. ■■ First governorship run (1990) On 1 September 1990, Abubakar announced his Gongola State gubernatorial bid. A year later, before the elections could hold, Gongola State was broken up into two – Adamawa and Taraba States – by the Federal Government. Abubakar fell into the new Adamawa State. After the contest he won the SDP Primaries in November 1991, but was soon disqualified by government from contesting the elections. ■■ First presidential run (1992) A similar fate – disqualification by the military – would befall Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, Abubakar's friend and political mentor, in his 1992 bid for the presidential primary of the SDP. With no chance of contesting for the presidency, Yar'Adua decided to push Abubakar forward as the focal point of SDP's ambitions. Abubakar came third in the convention primary. But because MKO Abiola, the winner, had won by only about 400 votes a run-off was due. Abubakar stepped down for Abiola, asking his supporters to cast their votes for him, with an unwritten agreement that Abiola would announce Abubakar as his running mate. Abiola won the SDP ticket, and announced Babagana Kingibe, the runner-up, as his running mate. ■■ Second governorship run (1998) In 1998 Abubakar launched a bid for the governorship of Adamawa State on the platform of the People's Democratic Party. He won the December 1998 elections, but before he could be sworn in he was tapped by the PDP's presidential candidate, former Head of State Olusegun Obasanjo, as his vice-presidential candidate. The Obasanjo-Abubakar ticket won the 27 February 1999 presidential election with 62.78 percent of the vote. ■■Vice Presidency (1999–2007) Abubakar was sworn in as Vice-President of Nigeria on 29 May 1999. He presided over the National Council on Privatization, overseeing the sale of hundreds of loss-making and poorly managed public enterprises. In 1999 he, alongside South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma, launched the South Africa Nigeria Binational Commission. In 2006, Abubakar was involved in a bitter public battle with his boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, ostensibly arising from the latter's bid to amend certain provisions of the constitution to take another shot at the presidency (for the third consecutive time). In a November 2013 interview Abubakar is quoted as saying, regarding Obasanjo's alleged attempts to justify his third term bid: "He informed me that 'I left power twenty years ago, I left Mubarak in office, I left Mugabe in office, I left Eyadema in office, I left Umar Bongo, and even Paul Biya and I came back and they are still in power; and I just did eight years and you are asking me to go; why?' And I responded to him by telling him that Nigeria is not Libya, not Egypt, not Cameroun, and not Togo; I said you must leave; even if it means both of us lose out, but you cannot stay." The debate and acrimony generated by the failed constitutional amendment momentarily caused a rift in the People's Democratic Party. The Nigerian National Assembly eventually voted against any amendments allowing Obasanjo to run for another term. The Abubakar-Obasanjo face-off damaged the personal relationship between both men. ■■ Second presidential run (2006–2007) On 25 November 2006 Abubakar announced that he would run for president. On 20 December 2006, he was chosen as the presidential candidate of the Action Congress (AC). On 14 March 2007, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) released the final list of 24 aspirants for 21 April presidential election. Abubakar's name was missing from the ballot. INEC issued a statement stating that Abubakar's name was missing because he was on a list of persons indicted for corruption by a panel set up by the government. Abubakar headed to the courts on 16 March to have his disqualification overturned. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on 16 April that INEC had no power to disqualify candidates. The ruling allowed Abubakar to contest the election, although there were concerns that it might not be possible to provide ballots with Abubakar's name by 21 April, the date of the election. On 17 April, a spokesman for INEC said that Abubakar would be on the ballot. According to official results, Abubakar took third place, behind PDP candidate Umaru Yar'Adua and ANPP candidate Muhammadu Buhari, with approximately 7% of the vote (2.6 million votes). Abubakar rejected the election results and called for its cancellation, describing it as Nigeria's "worst election ever." He stated that he would not attend Umaru Yar'Adua's inauguration on 29 May due to his view that the election was not credible, saying that he did not want to "dignify such a hollow ritual with my presence." ■■ Third presidential run (2018) Atiku declared his candidacy under the People's Democratic Party of Nigeria and won the presidential ticket on October 7, 2018. He won the ticket with 1, 532 delegate votes ● Honours and awards In 1982 Abubakar was awarded the chieftaincy of the Turaki of Adamawa by Adamawa's traditional ruler, Alhaji Aliyu Mustafa. The title had previously been reserved for the monarch's favourite prince in the palace, as the holder is in charge of the monarch's domestic affairs. In 2011, while celebrating the 50th anniversary of the US Peace Corps in 2011, the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) – an independent nonprofit organisation, separate from the Peace Corps, that serves as an alumni association for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers – honoured Abubakar with the Harris Wofford Global Citizen Award. At the presentation of the award, the National Peace Corps Association described Abubakar as one individual who contributed to the development of higher education on the continent of Africa. "No private businessman in Africa has worked harder for democracy or contributed more to the progress of higher education than Atiku Abubakar," the NPCA said. In June 2017, Abubakar was awarded the chieftaincy title of the Waziri of Adamawa, and his previous title of Turaki was transferred to his son, Aliyu. ● Social media Abubakar has been active on Twitter since the 2011 elections, but stepped up his engagement in May 2013. In August 2013, he became the only second Nigerian politician to be verified, after Lagos State Governor Tunde Fashola. As at November 2015, he had more than 390,000 followers. He currently has 450,000 Facebook fans. Also in 2013, he launched a blog. In an August 2013 post, he shared his views on the role and relevance of social media to governance and democracy in Nigeria. |
Tambuwal collapse your structure into Atiku's own we got work to do! |
docadams:Now you will start to believe me but hold on, 2019 beckons........ ![]() |
Buterflyle0:So you can still foam at the mouth with your shu shu shu wey you dey talk anyhow all these while.....shameless boy you go cry tire |
Jokerman:Atiku is our next President in 2019! |
Atiku is it! Only man the cap fits......whatever the outcome, it will be victory for democracy. |
slivertongue:You can say that again! Tinubu's fall is imminent. |
DID TINUBU ACTUALLY DESERVE ANYONE'S LOYALTY? HE BIT THE AFENIFERE FINGER THAT FED HIM! In case you have forgotten, Bola Tinubu, as governor of Lagos State, used THREE deputy governors in FOUR years. And I will give you the background to this. After the death of Abacha in 1998, Tinubu and others in exile returned home. These included Tinubu. When he came, Funsho Williams had prepared to become governor and his structures were all over Lagos. Tinubu wanted Senate seat. Still basking on the euphoria of seeing the end of Abacha and the credibility of their NADECO activities, Afenifere leaders like Baba Abraham Adesanya, Ayo Adebanjo, Ganiyu Dawodu and others "decreed" that the AD (Alliance for Democracy) guber ticket be given to Tinubu. He did NOT win the primaries. Williams won. They didn't tell me. I was one of the reporters who covered the exercise across the state. Afolabi Gambari can bear witness. We were together in THISDAY that period in 1998. There was furore. Williams kicked. Till today, votes from FOUR local governments where Williams won (which would have given him the ticket) were NEVER counted. In Ondo State. Mrs. Mobolaji Osomo was poised to pick the AD ticket but the Afenifere leaders kicked against her because she once served as minister under Abacha. Osomo was a commissioner under the late Adekunle Ajasin between 1979 and 1983. She was an old Action Grouper! Back to Lagos. Kofo Buknor-Akerele was made the deputy to Tinubu but he was never happy with the choice. He stripped the office of any appurtenances. In fact, the woman, at a point, had two cars in her fleet: a dispatch car and her official car. She could not spend even N10,000. Don't believe me. Do your findings and prove my lie. At the end of the day, Tinubu had to force Afenifere to allow him decide his own deputy. That was how Femi Pedro came in. But it didn't last long between them. By 2003, he finished his first term with Abiodun Ogunleye. Immediately, he got second term, he began the decimation of Afenifere. Not only did they not have any input into his government, and backed by massive Lagos cash, he started wooing over anyone loyal to the old men. That was how Mandate Group became powerful. That was how Tinubu elevated money politics and sees it as the only weapon to buy loyalty! Today, same Tinubu wants to decide even the councillor that would represent even the most remotest corner of Lagos. * He denied Mamora ticket of going back to the Senate. But his wife is going for THIRD TERM. *Solomon Adeola Yayi was busy gunning for Ogun governorship. He practically abandoned Lagos. But when he failed, Tinubu had handed him ticket for Senate again. All those who have been preparing to contest were told to forget it. Playing God is easy. Only that you can never be... Samuel O. Ajayi https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156656208694144&id=736149143 |
BankeSmalls:My dear they are not afraid of him but simply playing mind games so that PDP can field a weaker aspirant against their lord and master, Buhari but as a politician we know their tricks. This election will be hot and only a hot head like Atiku or Kwankwanso can face this beast called Buhari. I know we shall succeed |
BankeSmalls:Not exactly my dear but the truth is at this juncture, only a full aboki or core northerner or call it Mallam will be accepted and that's the only person that can divide Buhari's votes up North. |
Definitely, Atiku |
krendo:Stop dreaming, Saraki is a small Fry in this knotty and serious equation. No true Northerner will vote Saraki. In Southwest, his votes will go more to Buhari even in his native Kwara he is not loved. Copy that? |
BankeSmalls:As much as I see you a worthy comrade here I think you are so wrong on your Saraki choice. Saraki is a Yoruba man and at this juncture only a fellow core northerner can face the monster called Buhari. Let's choose wisely. |
ashacot:Keep snoring with saliva all around your face. Buhari is no longer wanted come 2019 |
Funny funny deceivers always deceiving the gullible. |
I laugh in Spanish at APC and Okorocha |
They must huff and puff like miserable lots just because Atiku is getting wider coverage across all quarters on the social media but when this sane social media was scoring their god, Buhari, high on social media high in 2015 they were masturbating on the excitement of the news back then. Despicable lots..... |
This is politics where anything is possible! |
After collecting the dough this monster kept Osun people in the dark |
............and a Senator? Only in Nigeria and Africa you see this irritating thing happening. |
Yambee:Like seriously? so we still have miserable monitoring spirits like you wasting away knowing if Tomakint's topics hit the front page or not? not even demons are doing this type of job again. Anyway stay on topic mr monitoring spirit |
Ambode on a mission. Head or tail he will win |
Interesting times ahead....... |
Yambee:That's why you folks don't go far in your endeavours just to use 10 mins of your time to digest this fantastic piece na lie but to dey talk anyhow that you go sabi. Push am go America now |
Transcript of His Excellency Alhaji ATIKU ABUBAKAR GCON Presidential Nomination Media Chat under the auspices of The United Nigeria Group (TUNG) at the Silverbird Galleria in Abuja on Sunday, 30th September, 2018 Why do you want to be President? I want the job of the President of Nigeria because more than at any other time since the advent of our democracy, I think we need a leadership that has the experience, that has the capacity and that has the knowhow. And our most challenging issue in the country today is the issue of unemployment and creation of jobs, unity in the country and states. I believe I am more suitable to handle all these. As a civil servant I have worked 20 years in the federal bureaucracy, as a politician I served successfully for 8 years as the Vice President and in that position I chaired the economic team of that administration. I brought so many innovations to our administration that led to the creation of jobs, creation of wealth and prosperity and relative peace and stability. Again if you go back to my private sector experience I have been a farmer. I am still a farmer and am still an investor. If you put all these experiences together, that gives me the advantage over some of my contemporary. Not that they don't have something to put on the table, each and everyone of them have something to put on the table, but some can put more on the table than the others. So I believe this country requires all of these that I enumerated. In fact since the civil war I have not seen Nigeria in such a bad shape. Our unemployment rate is the highest, over 12 million men and women are unemployed. Our growth is at its lowest, when PDP administration was in power GDP growth rate was about 6%. But they took it over and crashed it; and dragged the nation into recession. We are trying to come out of recession at about 1.6 % growth, but consider the growth of our population. Any country that its economic growth is below its population growth is in danger. That is the danger that is facing our country today. So, anyone who can come and lift up our economy to a level where our GDP growth will surpass our population growth, I think is the leader we should at this point in time support and give the opportunity to take our country out of this crisis. And that is what I stand for. Why should PDP delegates vote for you? You see as I said, currently the country is doing very bad in terms of jobs, in terms of economic growth, in terms of prosperity, in terms of the unity of our country, in terms of security. I believe I have the experience and the capacity to deal with these issues more than any one of them, because I have dealt with them before. I assembled the best economic team (as Vice President) with that we did well and Nigerians attested to what we did in those 8 years. We liberalised the economy, we expanded the private sector's participation and tried to limit government to the necessary issues. If these policies we started were continued, today we will have been in a better country. I believe we need somebody who can come and continue with these policies so that we can bring back our prosperity, create more jobs for our unemployed youths. The most important thing is who can put this country back on the path of growth? I am sure that I am that person. If you get the ticket how will you rally the other 12 aspirants to support you? There is no single aspirant that I have not been to, to ask for his support and also to work together. Fortunately, each and everyone of them bring something to the table different from the other. And I believe it will not be a problem for me bringing them together to participate with me in government and also in whatever capacity they feel they can support the government. Government is such a very big deal in Nigeria even though my dream is that by the time I leave office government will be smaller. There is room to accommodate everyone of them, so I am talking to them and we are still interacting. How will you manage the economy and create more jobs for Nigerians youth that are unemployed? When we came in 1999 a barrel of crude oil was less than 10 Dollars in the market, we met less than 5 Dollars billion in our foreign reserve. With all that, we are still able to manage the economy of the country to the extent that we paid all our foreign debt and became debt free. In terms of managing our economy, we must embark on economic reform policies. Part of it is opening up the country to foreign investors. It is extremely important to open up the country to foreign investors; management of the micro economy policies is also very important. We were able to turn around the economy then, so I don't think it is an impossible task to do now. If given the opportunity, I believe it is doable. The delegates from each geo political zones will like to know your idea of restructuring? There is need to restructure the polity, unless we restructure the polity and give more power and resources to the geo political zones you are not likely to see much. If you concentrate all the powers in the federal government just like we are seeing now, then you are going to stifle growth and initiative. I think the best way to get geo political zones developed and prosper is to give more powers and resources to the geo political zones. Definitely, we need to review our political structure to ensure diversification of the economy growth across the country. It is obvious you cannot achieve this without the national assembly, so how will you go about it to restructure the country? It requires political skill and I have done it before. During our administration I was in charge of dealing with the National Assembly, and we did not encounter any challenge as we have it today. There were differences of political parties, and other differences were there and they will continue to be there. It requires someone with the skills and experience to deal with the National Assembly to achieve the restructuring agenda. I will work perfectly with the National Assembly to achieve those fundamental issues like restructuring, economic growth, diversification, unity, security and many more. You talked about political skills to handle the National Assembly, what are these political skills? It all depends on how you relate with these members of National Assembly. I have done that before for our administration, even when the Presidency was faced with an impeachment I negotiated with members of the National Assembly. What do you have for the youth and women? What I have for the youth is job and education. Our education has witnessed serious setback, in the sense that we are producing graduates that are not employable in the labour market. We should have entrepreneurship as a fundamental issue in our syllabus. I have seen it work in the university (AUN) that I founded where whatever course you are studying, you must also take entrepreneurship course. That is why graduates from AUN are the biggest job creators. As soon as they graduate, they create jobs. To employ about 12 million youths there is need to bring investors into the country so that they can absorb those graduates. But we also have to train them on how to be self employed. Today, I see the government giving some people 10,000 naira, how can someone set up a business with that? I own one of the most successful Microfinance bank in this country. I am working with people from Bangladesh because they are the best when it comes to microfinance system. We have since moved 45,000 families out of poverty by the interventions of the bank. And what is the best way to move a family out of poverty? It is to empower the woman. Because of this, I directed the bank to give 80% of their loans to women. They have been implementing that policy and today we are one of the most successful microfinance banks in Nigeria. The women repay, take more loans and look after their families. I am a product of that kind of woman, because I lost father at a very tender age and my mother was doing all kinds of businesses to look after me before I became what I am today. The best policy to move families out of poverty is to empower women. If you do that you will see how fast you will get out of poverty, particularly now that Nigeria has been designated as the capital of extreme poverty in the world we need to engage our women to turn it around for good. What will you do about the issue of insecurity, especially that of the North East? The general security situation in the North East is regrettable. Honestly I cannot understand why? I always try to look back at history, even though we have abandoned history which is very important for us to grow. I always try to compare what is taking place in the north east and when we fought the civil war. When we fought the civil war it lasted for 30 months and with a harsher environment. And here we are in a semi desert or desert region fighting untrained militia for 9 years. I want to know why? I really want to know why and I cannot know why until I am inside. During our administration 2001 and 2003, such thing tried to come up in Yobe state and we immediately crushed it. I really want to know why we have been fighting a group of untrained youths for 9 years. A whole powerful Nigeria, it will be difficult to say this is what I will do, until I go inside and find out why we are fighting this war for more 9 years. The situation is completely unacceptable and that does not even make sense. Look at the huge Nigeria army that is well trained, with all the sophisticated equipments and look at the young men untrained with AK 47, yet we cannot defeat them. I really want to know why. Something must be happening. You have moved from one political party to another, how do you intend to convince the delegates who probably think that you have not been consistent on a political platform? Tell me one political leader who has been consistent on a political platform. There is none that has not changed parties. But changing party is not the issue, have you been consistent in what you believe in, in your policies? I think that is the most important thing. Changing party is part of our political development process. Why is there no ministerial appointment for Abuja indigenes? In 1994/1995 when I served in the constitutional assembly to draft the present constitution, what we made provision for FCT was a mayor. But when it was review by the military regime, they dropped the areas we recommended and substituted it with what you call area councils. As far as I am concerned, it is an error that can be corrected. There is absolutely no law that says that an FCT indigene cannot be appointed as Minister of Abuja. With the constitutional amendment going on, if we want to build a nation we must remove this issue of indigene and replace it with residency. So, any resident of Abuja could be elected a mayor, when that is corrected it. END |
CilicMarin:Your deliverance is imminent and it shall surely come. Bloodletting, hardship, mindless looting, inconsistencies in governance, neglect and other wickedness happening under your Buhari are not enough proofs to open your eyes but here you are at your 40 something years on earth always on the dark side celebrating? I repeat, your deliverance shall come soon. |
Printerscanner:Don't be a slave of Tinubu that's why God created you in his own image with a mind of your own to think for yourself. Thank me later! |
buhariguy:If you really believed the bogus 10 million votes in your mumu organised primaries in 12 States then I can only pity you in advance but seriously are you a Mallam? |
buhariguy:Fear not my fearful friend, it's a settled dream. |
The Court of Law will address this daylight robbery! |
Awol1:Not true about the VP thing for Wike he is going for his second term as a governor in Rivers |
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