Nigeria's opposition PDP selects Abubakar as 2019 presidential election

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By Tife Owolabi PORT HARCOURT (Reuters) - Atiku Abubakar won on Sunday almost half the votes cast in a primary race to become the main opposition challenger to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in next year's elections, party officials said. Abubakar, 71 and a former vice president, will stand as the People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate. He scored 1,532 votes to defeat other candidates in the race, including the governor of the northwestern state of Sokoto, Aminu Tambuwal, and Nigeria's Senate President Bukola Saraki, the officials announced. "This is a victory for all of us. ...