Atiku Abubakar

Who is Atiku Abubakar?

Atiku Abubakar is a Nigerian politician, businessman and philanthropist, who served as the 2nd elected Vice-President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, under President Olusegun Obasanjo. In 1993 he came third in the Social Democratic Party presidential primaries. In 1999 he was elected Governor of Adamawa State in North Eastern Nigeria, but was selected by PDP presidential candidate Obasanjo to be his running mate. He was sworn-in as Vice President in May 1999. He contested and lost the presidential elections on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria in 2007. In 2011 a second presidential attempt ended when he lost the Peoples Democratic Party primaries.