FORMER VICE PRESIDENT ATIKU ABUBAKAR, DECLARES HIS PRESIDENTIAL AMBITION ON THE PLATFORM OF THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC) IN ABUJA ON WEDNESDAY 24/9/14).

Highlights Of Atiku.

Born 25 November 1946

Politician, Businessman and Philantropist

Worked in the Nigeria Customs Service for twenty years, rising to become the Deputy Director.

Elected Vice-President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, on the platform of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP). He served with Olusegun Obasanjo with whom he had a cold relationship towards the end of their tenure.

Ran for the office of Governor in the Gongola State (now Adamawa and Taraba States) in 1991.

Ran for the Presidency in 1993, placing third after MKO Abiola and Babagana Kingibe in the Social Democratic Party (SDP) primaries.

Political trajectory: People’s Democratic Party (1998–2006, 2009–2013) Action Congress (2006–2009)
All Progressives Congress (2013–present)

Family

Wife: Titi (Albert) Abubakar
Kids: Fatima, Adamu, Halima and Aminu

Wife: Ladi (Yakubu) Abubakar (Divorced)
Kids: Abba, Atiku, Zainab, Ummi-Hauwa, Maryam and Rukayatu

Wife: Princess Rukaiyatu Abubakar (daughter of the late Lamido of Adamawa).
Kids: Aisha, Hadiza, Aliyu, Asmau, Mustafa, Laila and Abdulsalam.

Wife: Fatima (Shettima) Abubakar
Kids: Amina (Meena), Mohammed Ahmed and Shehu (Twins), Zainab and Aisha (Twins) and Hafsat.

Wife: Jennifer (Iwenjora), aka Jamila Atiku-Abubakar
Kids: Abdulmalik, Zara and Faisal.

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