Since Atiku Abubakar, former vice president and Business Mogul, declared his interest as a presidential candidate, his declaration came with a bang and ended up in a whimper. Then came hounding from security agencies. Intel, a firm Atiku has interest in, was suddenly known to be evading tax, and operating license became under scrutiny. Rumors were flying around that some of the foreign Directors of his companies were humiliated out of the country. But This magazine’s inquiries indicates that Atiku is still consulting Nationwide.
Hints came that David Mark, former senate president may also be interested in the presidency, and the anti graft agency, EFCC, invited him for monies allegedly stolen during his tenure as Senate president. The story died down.
Since then it has become a crime for anyone to declare interest in the presidency as long as he is not a light weight that could be ignored. Only one aspirant, Thomas Ikubuese, has been campaigning on social media , on the platform of the National Conscience party. But the party is yet t do its primaries to determine their flag bearer.