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Atiku Abubakar (born November 25, 1946) is the former vice president of Nigeria. He has four wives from three different ethnic groups in Nigeria, and 27(?) children. Atiku Abubakar was born in Jada, Adamawa state of northeast Nigeria, to Garba Atiku and Aisha Kande Abubakar. Despite the death of his father who was the breadwinner of their home, Atiku was determined to get an education. He attended Jada Primary School from 1954 to 1960. He thereafter attended Adamawa Provincial Secondary School, Yola, from 1961 to 1965 where he graduated with Advanced Level Certificate in Economics, British Economic History, Government and Hausa language. From 1966 to 1967, he attended the School of Hygiene, Kano, graduating with the Royal Society of Health Diploma. He then proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, in 1967, graduating with a Diploma in Law in 1969. His interest in leadership began at the School of Hygiene in Kano, where he was elected President, Students Union, during the radical students' union politics of the 1960s. At the ABU, he was elected Assistant Secretary General and Deputy Speaker of Parliament of Institute of Administration, Kongo Campus, Ahmadu Bello University Students Union.

Career On graduation, Atiku joined the Customs and Excise Department in 1969, serving in Kano, Maiduguri, Kaduna, Seme, Ibadan and Lagos. He rose to the rank of Deputy Director before retiring meritoriously in 1986. During and after his service, he acquired additional training and education. He attended courses in Leadership Management, Drug Enforcement and Control, in Finland, Egypt and United States of America. On retirement, he went into private business, with interests in Oil Services, Agriculture, Food and Beverages, Print Media, Banking, Insurance and Pharmaceuticals. Atiku employs thousands of Nigerians through his businesses, and is the second largest employer of labour in Adamawa State after the State Government. Politics

Atiku embraced active politics in 1989 under the influence of soldier-turned-politician, Shehu Musa Yar'Adua. One of Nigeria's loudest opponents of military rule, Atiku played a prominent role in the pro-democracy movements of the 90s. He was elected into the National Constitutional Conference of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, representing Ganye/Mayo Belwa constituency in Adamawa State from 1994 to 1995. His insistence on the exit of the military led to an assassination attempt during the brutal military regime of Sani Abacha. Having survived that, Atiku was harassed and chased into exile in 1995. He lived briefly in the United States and tried to ensure that his businesses stayed afloat despite the military regime's attempts to ruin them. He contested and won the Governorship Election of Adamawa State in 1999. However, just before he could be sworn in as Governor, he was nominated as the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. He was thereafter elected Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and sworn in on May 29, 1999. He was re-elected for a second four year term as Vice President and sworn in on May 29, 2003.

Holding both a Royal Society of Health and a Law degree, he was an early promoter of the People's Democratic Movement (PDM), the progenitor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as he pursued a career both in public and private life, culminating in his being twice elected as Vice President of Nigeria, always refusing to serve in Nigeria's military dictatorships. Frustrated with the inability of the PDP to enthrone internal democracy as an integral party policy, Atiku parted ways with the party he had helped found to pitch tent with the progressives under the umbrella of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Having lost to President Muhammadu Buhari and conceded defeat in the contest for the party's presidential primaries, Atiku Abubakar has left no one in doubt as to why he is a democrat par excellence. He deployed his assets to the then Buhari presidential campaign, working in concert with other stakeholders in the APC to a resounding electoral victory. Long after that historic election, his support to the success of President Buhari is unassailable.

Atiku Abubakar is particularly passionate about education. He established a Professorial Chair at the Oxford University, U.K, to promote scholarship in African History. His most significant investment in education has been the American University of Nigeria in the northeast Nigeria town of Yola. With the help and cooperation of American University in Washington, DC, the American University of Nigeria in Yola was set up. The AUN has arisen in only thirteeen years from the empty fields of rural Nigeria to become an institution of 1500 students with a faculty from 40 countries, a focus on sustainable development as Africa's first "Development University," and most recently the winner of an award from the American Library Association for its pioneering work in the development of one of the world's most sophisticated e-libraries. It is the only American-style University south of the Sahara and is already recognized as one of the leading universities of West Africa.

Atiku personally provides 60 percent subsidy by his own direct intervention to students of the AUN. This affords both the children of the rich and the children of the poor access to world-class education. Specially gifted children, regardless of their parental backgrounds are also afforded the opportunity to better their future through this first-class university. Even the vulnerable, among them the Chibok girls who escaped Boko Haram captivity, have found accommodation in the academy operated by AUN. To help foster unity, tolerance and peaceful coexistence in northeast Nigeria, the Adamawa Peace Initiative (API) was set up at his prompting by the American University of Nigeria (AUN). The API is vehicle for promoting and maintaining peace in Adamawa State and indeed the North East region of Nigeria. Today, the API initiative is getting more than cursory look as a viable model for dealing with strife in multi-religious communities.

To understand the thinking behind our privatisation policy, you need to have a clear picture of obtained ahead of that period. Before the privatisation policy was a nationalization policy. The government took total control of all business concerns in the country. The consequence of that nationalisation policy is that the government was running those businesses at a loss. So, our government felt it was necessary to stop the waste and return those businesses to the private sector in order to free scarce government resources for social investments like education, health and the rest. So, all the companies that we privatised were running at losses and government could no longer carry on in keeping them. As a matter of fact, the privatisation policy is the most consequential policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria since the return of civil rule in 1999. Not a single one of those companies that were sold to the private sector is traceable to a buyer related to me. None. No member of my family bought any of those companies on my behalf and the same for my friends.

Question: Why are you still seeking the presidency after several attempts and what do you say to Nigerians who believe it is driven by personal ambition rather than national service? Answer: I have said it several times that my interest in being president of Nigeria is to serve the country. Nigeria has given me so many opportunities to be who I am today. If God has given me the grace to return the benefits to the country, why should I shy away from that call to duty? If other presidents we have had offered better quality of leadership, I would have retired the ambition. But I cannot, in good conscience, decide to retire my ambition when I know that I have better ideas to offer in leading the country. If I were interested in personal gains, I would have been patronizing my opponents all these years. Such a decision would not be fair to Nigeria. I am in the race and persistently to offer service to the country.

INTRODUCTION Nigeria is at a defining moment where the choice is no longer between reform and stagnation, but between a system that works for the people and one that continues to fail them. For too long, economic reforms have come at the expense of the people, governance has drifted away from accountability, and systems meant to serve citizens have instead constrained opportunity. This manifesto is built on a clear and deliberate philosophy: that the purpose of government is to work for the people and that reform must deliver real improvements in everyday life. Its goals are simple and urgent: i) to end insecurity across the nation; ii) bring down the cost of living; iii) create more opportunities for Nigerians, and iv) ensure strict adherence to the rule of law. This manifesto is anchored on three fundamental principles: i) That every policy, from economic reform to security to social protection, must be measured by its impact on citizens; ii) That Nigeria's challenges are structural and require coordinated, institutional solutions, not ad hoc interventions; and iii) That reform is necessary, but it must be sequenced, supported, and humane, ensuring that Nigerians are not pushed further into hardship in the process.