"ABUBAKAR ATIKU:THE TRUE POLITICAL REBEL INSIDE THE PDP OF NIGERIA"

(i). Abubakar Atiku served as the Nigerian vice-president for two terms or a total of 8 years under the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo. The first rebel in Abubakar Atiku came out around 2002 when his political boss, Olusegun Obasanjo started to nurse the political ambition of a second term as the President of Nigeria. Many reliable sources in the top echelon of the then PDP said that Abubakar Atiku was simultaneously nursing his own ambition to challenge his boss for the presidency of Nigeria with the solid backing and the full loyalty of the majority of the then PDP state governors. Olusegun Obasanjo was said to have lost all hope for a second term and he had to go personally to prostrate before Abubakar Atiku to save him from the political disaster by dropping his own political ambition for the presidency and supported him through the PDP governors who were loyal to Abubakar Atiku at that time. 

(ii). The second rebel in Atiku Abubakar showed up again in 2007 at the end of Olusegun Obasanjo's second term when he was prevented by his boss from contesting for the presidency of Nigeria under the PDP. Abubakar Atiku left PDP his own political party as the seating vice-president of Nigeria and joined the opposition party, the Action for Democracy (AD) and contested for the presidency of Nigeria which he lost. (iii). The third rebel in this politician was seen last Saturday at the PDP mini-convention in Abuja when Abubakar Atiku led the 7 PDP rebel governors to stage a walk-out from that convention and then announced the formation of a new parallel PDP that has now factionalized the ruling political party in Nigeria at the national level for the first time since the formation of the PDP. This rebellion is now the biggest political nightmare and obstacle for President Jonathan Goodluck of Nigeria who nurses a second term presidential ambition in 2015. Will the PDP and Jonathan Goodluck survive this political revolution engineered by Abubakar Atiku as the year 2015 draws closer? Time alone will tell.