Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
Malik Yahya/
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will contest in the 2023 presidential election.
Atiku was the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential election where he lost to President Muhammadu Buhari.
His son, Adamu Abubakar, confirmed this today while speaking at the presentation of his scorecard as Commissioner for Works and Energy in Adamawa State.
He said: “Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with my father contesting for the presidency.
“In 2023, my father will be aspiring to the number one office in the land because he has been an astute, strategic, master politician for almost four decades.”
Atiku Abubakar served as the Vice President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 during the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo.
He was a presidential candidate of the Action Congress in the 2007 presidential election.
He also contested the presidential primaries of the People’s Democratic Party during the 2011 presidential election.
In 2014, he joined the All Progressives Congress ahead of the 2015 presidential election and contested the presidential primaries losing to Muhammadu Buhari.
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