Nigeria’s main political opposition on Saturday said it had been forced to cancel a key presidential campaign rally in the capital Abuja, and blamed President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling party.

With exactly a week to the Presidential elections, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is upbeat of his chances at the polls. For him and members of the National Working Committee, NWC, of his party, the coast is finally clear to march steadily to Aso Rock, the nation’s seat of power.

The Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that the claim by the All Progressives Congress, APC, party that it will garner 12 million votes during the coming general elections is admission by the party that it has perfected plans to rig the polls.

“It is my desire to run for the Office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, not because I have a bag full of promises but because I am prepared to lead,” Atiku while unveiling his campaign manifesto, “Let’s Getting Nigeria Working Again.”

ABUJA- Members of the Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM, a political group founded by late former Chief of General Staff (Supreme Headquarters), General Shehu Yar’Adua, have, Friday in Abuja, unanimously adopted Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as PDM’s consensus candidate for the 2019 Presidential election.

By Dennis Agbo Seven states have given strong support to Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s endorsement of Atiku Abubakar as Igbo preferred candidate for next Saturday’s Presidential election. Presidents of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in the seven states at a crucial meeting in Enugu, Friday, said it reviewed exhaustively the State of Nigeria, especially in relation to the general elections […]

Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari and that of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar have taken their campaign trains to each other’s hometowns in Adamawa and Katsina states, respectively.

By Charles Agwam – Bauchi Last Tuesday, the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium in Bauchi witnessed an unprecedented crowd of supporters who thronged the overstretched stadium in support of the candidature of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Bauchi State was, before now, what many would call a ‘Buhari territory’. But […]

Peoples Democratic  Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, raised the alarm over an alleged plot to arrest some of his key associates in the run-up to the election.

Peoples Democratic  Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, raised the alarm over an alleged plot to arrest some of his key associates in the run-up to the election.