Atiku Abubakar ya kasance mataimakin tsohon shugaba Obasanjo daga shekara ta 1999-2007. Dangantaka ta yi tsami tsakanin manyan PDPn biyu, a yunkurin Obasanjo na gyara kundin tsarin mulkin Najeriya, domin bashi damar neman zarcewa a karo na uku.

Sai dai hakan ya yi karo muradun Atikun na maye gurbinsa a matsayin shugaban kasa. Kwanaki kalilan bayan lashe zaben fidda gwani na jam'iyyar adawa ta PDP a birnin Fatakwal, dottaban biyu sun yi wata ganawa a mahaifar Obasanjon watau Abeokuta da ke jiharsa ta Ogun.

Inda tsohon shugaban kasar ya jaddada masa cewar, ko kadan baza'a kwatantashi da shugaba mai ci a yanzu ba, a fannin sanin makamar aiki da fannoni daban daban na mulki.