“Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with my father
contesting for the presidency. In 2023, my father will be aspiring to the
number one office in the land because he has been an astute, strategic, master
politician for almost four decades,” Mr Abubakar who currently serves as
commissioner for works and energy in Adamawa State was quoted saying by the
Punch.
He made this known while marking the one-year performance of
his ministry under the leadership of Governor Ahmadu Finitiri of Adamawa state.
The commissioner also expressed the possibility of he
running for his constituency senatorial seat.
Abubakar’s presidential runs
The former vice-president has had five failed presidential
runs between 1993 and 2019, switching between four parties. The closest to this
record is the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari, who had contested for the
seat thrice before he won in his fourth attempt.
His first attempt for the presidential ticket was in 1993
under the Social Democratic Party (SDP)
where he came third behind MKO Abiola and Babagana Kingibe in the party
primaries.
Mr Abubakar also contested twice for Adamawa governorship
seats before he won in his second attempt under the umbrella of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
Before his inauguration as governor in 1999, he opted to run as vice-presidential candidate to the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, the seat he occupied for eight years.
Amidst a rift with Mr Obasanjo, Mr Abubakar defected to the Action Congress of Nigeria, got the party’s ticket and took third in the 2007 election behind the PDP candidate, Umar Yar’Adua, and the ANPP candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.
He returned to the PDP and lost the party’s presidential
ticket in 2011 to the then incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan.
He joined the APC in 2014 and lost the party’s ticket to President Buhari. Back in PDP, he contested yet again to be president but lost to Mr Buhari.
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