PDP Presidential Nominee - Atiku Abubakar

Atiku Abubakar was born on 25 November 1946 in a small town which was then under the organization of the British Cameroons - the region later got together with the Federation of Nigeria in the 1961 British Cameroons mandate. His dad, Garba Abubakar was a Fulani merchant and rancher, and his mom was Aisha Kande. He was named after his fatherly granddad Atiku Abdulqadir who hails from Wurno, Sokoto State and relocated to Kojoli town at Jada, Adamawa State, his maternal granddad called Inuwa Dutse moved to Jada, Adamawa State from Dutse, Jigawa State he turned into the lone offspring of his folks when his main sister passed on at early stages. In 1957, his dad kicked the bucket by suffocating while at the same time crossing a waterway to Toungo, an adjoining town to Jada.

Atiku Abubakar is a Nigerian Politician and a businessman who served as the vice president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 during the administration of Olusegun Obasanjo.

He was once a governor of Adamawa State in 1990 to 1997. Since joining politics in 1989, Atiku Abubakar unsuccessfully contested five times for the Office of President of Nigeria in 1993, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019. 

In 1993, he contested the Social Democratic Party presidential primaries losing to Moshood Abiola and Baba Gana Kingide. He was a presidential candidate of the Action Congress in the 2007 presidential election coming in third to Umaru Yar'Adua of the PDP and Muhammadu Buhari of the ANPP. He contested the presidential primaries of the People's Democratic Party during the 2011 presidential election losing out to incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.

In 2014, he joined the All Progressives Congress ahead of the 2015 presidential election and contested the presidential primaries losing to Muhammadu Buhari. In 2017, he returned to the Peoples Democratic Party and was the party presidential candidate during the 2019 presidential election, again losing to incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari.

In 2022, he won the  as Peoples Democratic Party primary election and he became the party candidate ahead of 2023 Nigerian presidential election.