THE English playwright John  Webster, in ‘The Duchess of Malfi’, was the one who said “Ambition… is a great man’s madness” -impliedly suggesting that the urge to achieve is more the affliction of those who already have achieved, than it is the malady of commoners who should have every reason to want to achieve. If ‘ambition’ is more to the ‘great man’ than it is to the ‘commoner’, the question then arises, ‘why should ‘greatness’ allow itself to be troubled by the wearisome aspiration to be even greater?

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar is  visiting his erstwhile principal, President Olusegun Obasanjo today very reliable sources disclosed last night.

Kaduna—One of the aspirants in the just-concluded presidential primaries of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former chairman of the caretaker committee of the party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has promised to join force with the party’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to return Nigeria to greatness.

Deputy Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. Friday Ossai Osanebi, yesterday, said the emergence of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has brought hope to Nigerians, expressing confidence that he has the reach to wrestle power from President Mohammadu Buhari in 2019.

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, Governors Wednesday said that they were not jittery over the emergence of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the main opposition candidate to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari in next year’s presidential election.