Atiku Abubakar is trusting it will be 6th time fortunate in his mission to be Nigeria's next president having missed the mark on five past endeavors, the first in 1992.
The 75-year-old has surrounded the highest points of public life for the majority of his vocation as a top government employee, a VP, and a conspicuous financial specialist, making his fortune in the oil area and offering some of it to noble cause.
In any case, the most elevated office in the land has escaped him, and in February 2023 he goes once more, offering his qualifications as a carefully prepared political administrator and sequential business visionary as the solution for Nigeria's ills.
Africa's most crowded nation is confronting taking off joblessness, broad uncertainty, high expansion, and a slow economy intensely reliant upon fluctuating oil incomes.
Mr Abubakar's mission is based on his prosperity as VP somewhere in the range of 1999 and 2007, where as top of the public authority's monetary group he supervised fruitful changes in the broadcast communications, annuities and banking areas that prompted positions and GDP development.
Nonetheless, his faultfinders highlight allegations of monetary indecency against him which they say make him unacceptable for the top office in a nation where debasement is an enormous test.
He is blamed for cronyism, particularly when he administered the privatization of key government resources. He denies any bad behavior and says the charges are politically inspired.
Mr Abubakar will expect to join the broke resistance Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), where breaks have arisen since his triumph at the essential in June.
A few compelling southern lead representatives resent his development, saying it was the turn of the south to create Nigeria's next president following eight years of President Muhammadu Buhari, a northerner like Mr Abubakar.
Mr Abubakar has vowed to join oppressed individuals from the PDP before the decisions
His decision of a running mate has likewise mixed an open disobedience inside the party, with many accepting that the scorn of the exceptionally powerful legislative leader of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, could demonstrate expensive.
A famous figure inside the party, Mr Wike was viewed as the mind-boggling number one, having missed out in the official essential, however Mr Abubakar rather picked Delta state lead representative Ifeanyi Okowa.
Outside his party, Mr Abubakar faces an impressive rival in Bola Tinubu, the up-and-comer of the decision All Progressives Congress (APC), and a bourgeoning youth-driven crusade drove by the Labor Party's Peter Obi who is focusing on votes in conventional PDP regions in southern Nigeria.
There is likewise the test of persuading youthful Nigerians that he is a reasonable decision, given his age, and that he is a break from the political class many have lost trust in.
An approachable, venturesome figure, Mr Abubakar moves competently between the universes of business and legislative issues - characteristics that, his allies say, will assist him with joining the nation and resuscitate the economy.
He has been engaged with Nigerian decisions for quite a long time and has as of late vacillated between the two predominant gatherings, the APC and PDP - where he was an establishing part, looking for a shot at the administration.
His most memorable exit from the PDP, in 2006, matched with an examination concerning his record as VP, when he was blamed for having redirected $125m (£95m) worth of public assets towards his financial matters.
Comparative charges showed up in a 2010 US Senate report, which blamed Mr Abubakar for having moved $40m (£30.55m) of "suspect assets" to the US, utilizing his American spouse's ledger.
The charges have never been investigated in court, and Mr Abubakar has dismissed the claims of defilement as politically persuaded. In January 2019, he visited Washington DC, finishing hypothesis that he was staying away from movement to the US since he could confront capture there.