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Presidential ticket: Atiku begins search for running mate
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday at the main bowl of Adokie Amiesimaka Stadium, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, won the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Hardly did Atiku emerge as the winner than the talk of his running mate started.
Investigations by The PUNCH correspondents showed that the search might have been limited to the South-East region of the country.
However, in the election, Atiku polled 1,532 votes out of total of 3,221 votes, representing almost 50 per cent of the entire delegates’ votes.
The PUNCH, October 8, 2018
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