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In Saturday’s presidential elections, Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president of Nigeria, is running once more for the position.
Abubakar has attempted to run for president of Nigeria six times over the course of three decades.
The 76-year-old is running for the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) against Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s unexpected third-place front-runner.
Abubakar and the current president Muhammadu Buhari are both Muslims of the Fulani ethnic group.
Abubakar was a prosperous businessman prior to entering politics in the 1990s.
Up until 2007, Abubakar served as the president Olusegun Obasanjo’s deputy executive.
He has attempted to win the presidential nomination for several parties since leaving office, including the APC in 2015.
In order to win the 2019 election, he joined the PDP once more and ran under the slogan “Get Nigeria Working Again.”
Abubakar made five promises to address during the campaign. These include investing in education, reducing insecurity, the economy, restoring Nigeria’s unity, and giving more authority and resources to the federation’s various regions.
Nigeria is still recovering from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the consequences of the war in Ukraine, which have driven up the cost of food and fuel.
In 2022, the World Bank estimates that five million more Nigerians—a total of 95 million people—were living in poverty as a result of inflation.
29 children and two wives are born to Abubakar.
