Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 25 elections, paid an impromptu visit to the former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (retired), on Wednesday.
Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, the former governor of Niger State, met the former vice president when he arrived at the Minna International Airport around 11 a.m. Next, he proceeded directly to the hilltop residence of the elder statesman in Minna.
According to a report, the meeting lasted for more than an hour.
Findings show that the visit has something to do with the just-concluded elections in the country and with making official complaints about the inability of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to run a free, fair, and acceptable election after his rejection and calling for the result to be cancelled.
Atiku Abubakar was also in Minna to meet General Babangida upon his return from a medical trip abroad.
Atiku lost to Bola Tinubu, the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who got 8,794,726 more votes than him. He won in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states and did well enough in several other states to get the most votes overall.
The 76-year-old, who has now run for president six times, got 6,984,520 votes. The Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi, who in less than a year did things that some people have called “unprecedented” to get young people to vote, got 6,101,533 votes.
Atiku and Obi are both dissatisfied with the election results and have petitioned the court to contest the outcome of the election.
