Obasanjo has made it clear that Atiku Abubakar, the Vice President and the arrowhead of the anti-third term coalition, will not succeed him. But this has not stopped Abubakar, a formidable political operator, from launching his presidential bid, despite uncertainty over whether he will fight it out with his boss for control of the PDP machinery or decamp to another political party.
Obasanjo ha dicho con claridad que Atiku Abubakar, Vicepresidente y punta de flecha de la coalición contra el tercer mandato, no lo sucederá, pero no por ello ha dejado Abubakar, gran maniobrero político, de lanzar su candidatura a la presidencia, pese a la incertidumbre sobre si disputará a su jefe el control de la burocracia del PDP o se largará a otro partido político.