By joshua 
… APC Scared of former Vice President’s Rising Profile, Acceptability.
The Coordinator General of Coalition of Atiku Support Coordinator General, Hon. Comr. Obinna Obiwuru Okorie has described the insinuation making the rounds about the qualification of Alhaji Abubakar Atiku to contest the 2023 Presidency as a figment of the imagination of those scared of his winning the Election.
Speaking on the misconception by Abubakar Malami, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, the CASGI CG lamented that the matter on the former Vice President’s qualification had sinced being settled by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Mr Obinna pointed out that it is unfortunate that a matter that has been dispensed with by the Supreme Court in 2019 would be made a matter again at a court of lower competent jurisdiction.
The CG urged the public to only laugh at the incompetence of the nation’s Chief Lawmaker, pointing out that it is most unfortunate that such can happen in the country.
He described the former Vice President as the man to beat in 2023, urged those scared of his rising profile to rather than dessipate energy on adventures, wait for the general election.
While noting that all over the country the deafening calls and following the former Vice President is enjoying has become the fear of the ruling APC, said Alh. Abubakar Atiku is eminently qualified as a bonafide Nigerian to run in 2023.
He assured that nothing except the people would stop the former Vice President from winning, described the 2023 Atiku Abubakar project as a divine mandate.
*WHO IS ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR*
Atiku Abubakar GCON (born 25 November 1946) is a Nigerian politician and businessman who served as the Vice President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 during the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo.
He twice ran as Governor of Adamawa State in 1990 and later, in 1998, being elected before becoming Olusegun Obasanjo’s running mate during the 1999 presidential election and re-elected in 2003.
Since his entry into politics in 1993, Atiku Abubakar has unsuccessfully contested six times for the Office of President of Nigeria in 1993, 1998, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019.
In 1993, he contested the Social Democratic Party presidential primaries losing to Moshood Abiola and Baba Gana Kingibe.
In 1998, he showed interest in contesting for the presidency United Nigeria Congress Party losing out to General Sani Abacha, who forced all the five political parties then to endorse him.
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.
Atiku Abubakar was born on 25 November 1946 in Jada, a village which was then under the administration of the British Cameroons – the territory later joined with the Federation of Nigeria in the 1961 British Cameroons referendum.
His father, Garba Abubakar was a Fulani trader and farmer, and his mother was Aisha Kande.
He was named after his paternal grandfather Atiku Abdulqadir and became the only child of his parents when his only sister died at infancy.
In 1957, his father died by drowning while crossing a river to Toungo, a neighbouring village to Jada.
His father was opposed to the idea of Western education and tried to keep Atiku Abubakar out of the traditional school system.
When the government discovered that Abubakar was not attending mandatory schooling, his father spent a few days in jail until Aisha Kande’s mother paid the fine.
At the age of eight, Abubakar enrolled in the Jada Primary School, Adamawa. After completing his primary school education in 1960, he was admitted into Adamawa Provincial Secondary School in the same year, alongside 59 other students.
He graduated from secondary school in 1965 after he made grade three in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination.
Following secondary school, Abubakar studied a short while at the Nigeria Police College in Kaduna. He left the College when he was unable to present an O-Level Mathematics result, and worked briefly as a Tax Officer in the Regional Ministry of Finance, from where he gained admission to the School of Hygiene in Kano in 1966.
He graduated with a Diploma in 1967, *having served as Interim Student Union President at the school*.
In 1967 he enrolled for a Law Diploma at the Ahmadu Bello University Institute of Administration, on a scholarship from the regional government.
After graduation in 1969, during the Nigerian Civil War, he was employed by the Nigeria Customs Service.
Abubakar has four wives and twenty eight children.
Atiku explains: “I wanted to expand the Abubakar family. I felt extremely lonely as a child. I had no brother and no sister. I did not want my children to be as lonely as I was. This is why I married more than one wife. My wives are my sisters, my friends, and my advisers and they complement one another.”
In 1971, he secretly married Titilayo Albert, in Lagos, because her family was initially opposed to the union. His children from her include: Fatima, Adamu, Halima and Aminu.
In 1979, he married Ladi Yakubu as his second wife. He has six children with Ladi: Abba, Atiku, Zainab, Ummi-Hauwa, Maryam and Rukaiyatu. Abubakar later divorced Ladi, allowing him to marry, as his fourth wife (the maximum permitted him as a Muslim), Jennifer Iwenjiora Douglas.
In 1983, he married his third wife, Princess Rukaiyatu, daughter of the Lamido of Adamawa, Aliyu Mustafa. The children from her are: Aisha, Hadiza, Aliyu (named after her late father), Asmau, Mustafa, Laila and Abdulsalam.
In 1986, he married his fourth wife, Fatima Shettima. Her children include: Amina (Meena), Mohammed and the twins Ahmed / Shehu, the twins Zainab / Aisha, and Hafsat.