In line with analysts’ prediction, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was on Wednesday announced the winner of the presidential ticket of the African Democratic Congress for the 2027 general election, the fourth time he won a presidential ticket since 2007 when he contested the presidential election on the platform of the Action Congress. Will Atiku realise the ambition he has been nursing since 1993, when he contested the presidential primaries of the Social Democratic Party? Ejiofor Alike asks
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was last Wednesday announced winner of the presidential ticket of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) after he polled 1,846,379 votes to defeat his closest rival, former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, who scored 540,117 votes to come second.
An economist, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, came a distant third with 177,120 votes.
Atiku’s victory in the presidential primaries of the ADC is not the first time he emerged as the presidential candidate of a major opposition party.
The former vice president was the presidential candidate of the Action Congress in the 2007 presidential election.
