Atiku Abubakar

He worked in the Nigeria Customs Service for twenty years, rising to deputy director, and retired in April 1989 to take up business and politics full-time. Having won his party's Adamawa governorship nomination, he was instead selected as Olusegun Obasanjo's running mate for the 1999 election, and served as vice president from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007, the pair winning re-election in 2003 ¹.

He ran for the presidency six times without winning: he lost the Social Democratic Party primaries in 1993, came third as the Action Congress candidate in 2007, lost the PDP primaries in 2011 to President Goodluck Jonathan and in 2014 to Muhammadu Buhari (by then in the APC), and was the PDP's candidate in the 2019 and 2023 general elections, losing to Buhari and then to Bola Tinubu; the Supreme Court dismissed his challenge to the 2023 result. In 2025 he left the PDP and joined the African Democratic Congress ^{1 2}.

The Lamido of Adamawa gave him the chieftaincy title of Turaki in 1982, and in June 2017 he received the title of Waziri of Adamawa, his former title passing to his son Aliyu ¹.

The English article's text attests once that he is a Muslim, in its account of his marriages — a fourth wife was "the maximum permitted him as a Muslim" — the Arabic article's text says nothing and files him only under "Nigerian Muslims", and Wikidata gives a single structured value, Islam. That is one text family and its structured echo: being a Muslim is attested, but no source in any language names a school for him, so the museum's record keeps the value unknown ^{1 2 3}.

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