Atiku Abubakar
Atiku Abubakar is a Nigerian politician and businessman who served as the vice president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 during the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo. He ran for the office of governor of Adamawa State in 1990 and 1996 unsuccessfully, but won in 1998. Before he was sworn in, he was selected as running mate to former military leader, Olusegun Obasanjo, during the 1999 presidential election and was re-elected in 2003.
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Jun 15, 2026
Lean Right
Atiku, as ADC presidential candidate, picked former Rivers governor Rotimi Amaechi as his running mate.
APC views Atiku's alliance with Amaechi, a former APC stalwart, as a sign of desperation and an attempt to hijack opposition grievances, but it fragments the PDP further.
Jun 15, 2026
Center
The ADC announced Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate for the 2027 election, with Rotimi Amaechi as running mate.
The Centre perspective sees Atiku's choice of the ADC as risky given the party's legal status, and questions the viability of this opposition alliance.
Jun 10, 2026
Lean Left
Atiku's aide publicly declared that Tinubu's biggest achievement has been making Nigerians poorer, citing economic instability and naira collapse as the core evidence.
PDP views this attack as a disciplined and credible indictment, positioning Atiku as the alternative economic manager who warned against the fuel subsidy removal shock and the reckless forex liberalization.
Jun 9, 2026
Center
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar publicly dismissed allegations made by former SGF Babachir Lawal, calling them a cocktail of bitterness and political revisionism.
The centre views this PDP internal war as damaging to opposition credibility, with two senior northern political figures trading accusations instead of building a coherent challenge to APC governance failures.
Jun 9, 2026
Lean Left
Atiku publicly challenged former SGF Babachir Lawal to produce concrete evidence of rigging at the ADC presidential primary, dismissing Lawal's claims as the bitterness of a failed political actor.
PDP supporters view Atiku's aggressive pushback as necessary credibility defense ahead of 2027, though the ADC primary controversy raises uncomfortable questions about opposition coalition management.
Jun 8, 2026
Far Right
Atiku publicly attacked former SGF Babachir Lawal, accusing him of spreading divisive and ethnically charged rhetoric in recent public statements.
APC hardliners view this spat as confirmation that PDP's flagship figure is consumed by internal score-settling rather than governance alternatives, exposing the opposition's structural decay ahead of 2027.
Jun 8, 2026
Center
The PDP figure praised the military rescue of 360 abductees in Borno while calling for the release of remaining kidnap victims, and LP's Datti Baba-Ahmed declared his 2027 presidential chances limited.
Centrists view Atiku's statement as politically opportunistic, using a security win he had no hand in to boost visibility, while Datti's assessment underscores PDP's structural inability to consolidate opposition ahead of 2027.
Jun 8, 2026
Lean Left
Atiku issued a statement welcoming the release of 360 Borno kidnap victims while demanding the federal government urgently rescue all remaining abductees still in captivity.
PDP sees Atiku's statement as sharp, timely opposition leadership, contrasting his proactive voice on security with Tinubu's administration appearing to respond only after crises escalate.
Jun 5, 2026
Center
A media aide to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar raised formal concerns about INEC's impartiality, signalling that the PDP's leading 2027 presidential hopeful is already framing the electoral environment as compromised.
From the Centre, Atiku's pre-emptive attack on INEC is read as both a legitimate concern given past controversies and a strategic move to build a grievance narrative early, with the risk that it undermines public confidence in elections regardless of outcome.