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The Wazirin Adamawa and presidential candidate of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, is easily the most experienced frontline politician in Nigerian politics today (using longevity as a synonym for experienced).
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Atiku Abubakar is contesting his sixth time for the Nigerian presidency, making him one of the most experienced politicians in the country by longevity
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While his manifesto ‘A Covenant with Nigerians’ reflected this experience with its clever use of statistics and imagery, it had similar problems identified in the Labour Party’s manifesto
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The manifesto made some big promises, including 10% GDP and 5 million barrels of oil per day. However, the language used in the document was mostly abstract to make the candidate free from accountability
Three decades ago, in March 1993, at the presidential
