Former Nigeria’s vice president Atiku Abubakar has been elected as the People’s Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the next general elections. Abubakar wins the election with 1, 532 votes with the governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, coming a distant second with 693 votes. He returned to the PDP in 2010 and contested, again, for the presidency, standing against Goodluck Jonathan in 2011. He subsequently defected to PDP, where he has now to picked up the presidential ticket. He has recruited Gbenga Daniel, a former Ogun State governor, who lost the bid to lead the PDP, to chair his campaign.

Source: The Guardian October 07, 2018 10:53 UTC