‘I’m driven by passion to serve my people’
ATIKU’S PLAN FOR NIGERIA: *Vows to run a lean government *Explains how to handle NNPC and subsidy *Discusses insecurity, federalism, PDP and Gov Wike ATIKU Abubakar is a man, who has been around. He’s in the legion of Nigerians, whose first name is easily recognisable because there are no two similar reputational standing: Gani (Fawehinmi); Fela (Anikulapo Ransome-Kuti); Beko (Ransome-Kuti); Rashidi (Yekini); and the list goes on. The name Atiku can only be followed by Abubakar in contemporary Nigerian political conversation. Secondly, only Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s President and Commander-in-Chief, has contested for the country’s presidency as much as Atiku. Whereas, Buhari emerged candidate on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in 2003; All Peoples Party, APP, in 2007; Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in 2011; and finally on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2015, when he won; Atiku also has his history of pursuit steeped in disappoi...