Breaking: Atiku emerges PDPs Presidential candidate Agents
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he ran for the office of governor in the gongola state now adamawa and taraba states in 1991 and for the presidency in 1993 placing third after mko abiola and babagana kingibe in the social democratic party sdp primaries1 the chief agent of former vice president atiku abubakar otunba gbenga daniel has confirmed that his candidate has won the presidential primary of the peoples democratic party pdp1 also senator ben bruce another agent of atiku emerged from the vote sorting platform to say that atiku has won1 other aspirants were governor of sokoto state aminu tambuwal governor of gombe state ibrahim dankwambo a former governor of kano state senator rabiu kwankwaso a former governor of sokoto state alhaji attahiru bafarawa1 others are the president of the senate senator bukola saraki a former president of the senate senator david mark a former minister of special duties and inter-governmental relations alhaji tanimu turaki san and a former governor of plateau state senator jona jang1 also in the race are a former governor of kaduna state senator ahmed makarfi a former governor of jigawa state alhaji sule lamido and dr. datti baba-ahmed1 72-year-old atiku abubakar a businessman who served as the second elected vice-president of nigeria from 1999 to 2007 on the platform of the peoples democratic party pdp with president olusegun obasanjo1 abubakar worked in the nigeria customs service for twenty years rising to become the deputy director before he retired in april 1989 to go into politics1 he said even before the count of the votes that i have not doubt that atiku abubakar has worn the primary1 in 1998 he was elected governor of adamawa state. while still governor-elect he was selected by the peoples democratic party pdp presidential candidate olusegun obasanjo as his running mate1 the duo went on to win elections in february 1999 and abubakar was sworn-in as nigerias second democratically elected vice president on 29 may 19991 abubakars second term as vice president was marked by a stormy relationship with president obasanjo1 abubakar ran for presidency on the platform of the action congress having quit the pdp on account of his issues with president obasanjo1 abubakar lost the election placing third after umaru yaradua and muhammadu buhari of the all nigeria peoples party anpp1 he joined the ruling all progressives congress apc and sought the partys ticket in 2014 but lost to president muhammadu buhari at the primary held in lagos1 abubaker defected again in may to pdp where he on sunday clinched the ticket to tackle incumbent president buhari in the 2019 presidential election1 abubakar is a co-founder of intels an oil servicing business with extensive operations in nigeria and abroad and founder of the american university of nigeria aun1