Browsing: Atiku Abubakar

In a statement by his media office in Abuja, the former vice president said the PDP crisis is an internal family disagreement, which should not give anybody the right to arrest those who have dissenting voices

Reviewing the state of affairs in the country in the democratic order, Abubakar stated that leaders should not seek elective offices simply for the sake of power if they lack the vision to push economic growth, which in turn creates employment and greater prosperity for the citizens

The purported largest party in Africa is unlikely to achieve in the six decades it plans to ride the Nigerian horse without opposition, which is what it has been unable to do over the last decade of steering the country’s ship of state. The Seven renegade PDP governors led by Atiku Abubakar are a potent opposition, which is operating from inside the ‘purported largest party’ PDP itself. What a fantastic good fortune for Nigeria

He recalled that in 2006, in took riots by Igbo traders in the Federal Capital Territory to force the government at that time to investigate, arrest and charge police officers that allegedly killed six Igbo traders they branded as armed robbers

In a statement by his media office in Abuja, the former vice president said he was full of joy that the kidnap saga came to an end

The President of USOSA, Kabir Nuhu, represented by the National Assistant Secretary, Salim Ibrahim, made the announcement at the inauguration of the BoT of FEGOCOOKOSA endowment fund

He said Nigerians should ask Atiku why he has not visited the United States since he left office, if he has no case to answer

There was no briefing after the secret meeting but sources said it was a preparatory to a crucial meeting scheduled for Tuesday night with the aggrieved seven governors that have joined the ‘New PDP’, said to be the brainchild of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar

The former vice president, who is currently in China leading a private economic trade mission at the invitation of the Chinese government, declared the police invasion of the party’s office has no justification in law, but was rather borne out of political control

Reacting to the position of former warlords under the aegis of Leadership Peace and Cultural Development Initiative, who made the threat at the weekend, Frank said the position depicted the ignorance of the group and only showed total lack of understanding of the crisis in the PDP

The ACF said in a statement in Kaduna on Sunday in its reaction over the threat barring Atiku Abubakar from entering into the Niger Delta region, that the ex-militants are by their misguided action crossing the fiducial mark that is alien to democratic tenets

According to the former vice president, the over-reliance on oil revenues has virtually destroyed the initiatives by the state governments to double efforts towards improving their internally generated revenue sources

Therefore, we have a responsibility to see how we can reform our great party so that those lofty ideals, lofty goals can be achieved

Sources told The Eagle Online that Abdulkadir’s sack was to serve as a deterrent to others perceived not to be fully loyal to President Goodluck Jonathan

Girgir told Abubakar that their visit was to seek his support on ways to elevate the party in the North-East and to proffer solutions to the mirage of problems confronting the party in the zone

The AUN recently received a Presidential Citation from the American Library Association for its International Innovative Library Projects

While acknowledging that many of his political associates are involved in registering the PDM, Abubakar explained that he had no powers to stop adults with common interests from coming together to form a party

Things could happen the way they are foretold by people endowed with the gift to foresee them. Not everything foretold is however known to have come to pass

The former Vice President noted that this kind of political rascality should not be tolerated at the expense of governance and service delivery issues crying for attention

In a good will message to mark the beginning of the 30-day long Ramadan fasting by Muslims, the former Vice President appealed to the Boko Haram insurgents to permanently abandon any form of violence against innocent people