The Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has come down hard on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over what he described as huge abuse of financial procedures in the running of the state oil company, alleging that the $1bn voted in the 2019 budget to fund Petrol-Price-Under Recovery was simply a slush fund to finance President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election campaign.

THE  exchange of words between the campaign teams of President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenger over the 2019 Federal Government budget assumed another dimension, yesterday.

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the 2019 budget presented to the national assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari is “fundamentally flawed”.

The PDP Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO) says it’s Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has perfected a blueprint that will eliminate multiple taxation, slash income taxes, as well as commodity tax rates and increase government funding to small and medium enterprises, in key sectors of the economy.

Following last week statement by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha that the South-East will get its turn in 2023 after President Muhammadu Buhari second term in office; Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has warned the two geo-political zones to take their destinies in their hands by doing the right thing in the 2019 general elections.

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has punctured some of the claims made by Presudent Muhammadu Buhari during his budhet presentation to the joint session of the National Assembly last week.

…Says they’re not killers …Says Buhari has nothing to do with herdsmen By Anthony Ogbonna The National Coordinator of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, Garus Gololo, has said that the association is disappointed in the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, saying the former vice president has already started dividing […]

With less than two months to go, concerns by the opposition that next year’s general elections would not be free and fair, appear to be getting louder by the day. The voice of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has, so far, dominated the complaints.

The Federal Government has described as an “act of desperation’’, the statement credited to the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, that “killings will continue if President Muhammadu Buhari is re-elected’’.

The Federal Government has described as an “act of desperation’’, the statement credited to the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, that “killings will continue if President Muhammadu Buhari is re-elected’’.