Nigeria, Aug. 25 -- Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has confirmed that he will run for president in the 2027 general election to rescue Nigerians from poverty.

Atiku, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2023 presidential candidate and a key promoter of the ADC opposition coalition, announced his ambition to contest again through his spokesperson during the 2023 elections, Tunde Olusunle, during an interview with ThisDay on Sunday.

"I will run in 2027. Nigeria needs to be decisively rescued from the intensive care unit it has been consigned (to). The degeneration in our country, the level of poverty and pain, the anguish, is unacceptable.

"The accompanying deceit, the loss of values, the mega-scale, unimpeded thievery and the absolu...