Abubakar says he is very concerned about politicians using religion for their own motives.
"Getting information about the port project is incredibly difficult, " states Abubakar El-Amudy, chairperson of the Save Lamu coalition.
His target was believed to have been the most senior Muslim leader in Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Garbai El-Kanemi.
In June, it assassinated the retired police Deputy Inspector General Saleh Abubakar Ningi after ambushing his vehicle in Kano.
While Abubakar acknowledges that there is a small minority of extremists, he says that they don't represent the majority of peaceful Muslims.
An election on August 1st the scheduled date is unrealistic, and General Abubakar will have to move fast to meet the October handover deadline.
Mr Abubakar has been told to appear in court to answer corruption charges and a close aide was jailed for disclosing classified information.
In a YouTube video posted Tuesday, the group's spiritual leader, Imam Abubakar Shekau, warned of more attacks against Christians, who include President Goodluck Jonathan.
Ibrahim Babangida, an ageing former military ruler, and Atiku Abubakar, a former civilian vice-president, have both declared that they will seek the PDP ticket.
To be candid, Abubakar cannot last in his present position without jailing or even killing some of the criminals among the ruling elite in Nigeria.
Yet as Abu Sayyaf shows, bandits or not, various links can be established with al-Qaeda: Abubakar Janjalani, Abu Sayyaf's founder, trained with Mr bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Abubakar could be the one.... but as I said I doubt him because he will be confused by the sycophants that must have started chasing their "oga" around.
An audio statement believed to be from the group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, said the group had done no wrong so an amnesty could not apply to its members.
BBC: Nigeria Boko Haram amnesty bid gets president's backing
General Abdulsalami Abubakar, successor by inheritance to the late and little lamented General Sani Abacha, is offering the country he now heads its best chance in decades of genuinely democratic rule.
But Mr Osuji denies the allegations and says he was targeted because of his connections to the vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, who the local press says is Mr Obasanjo's principal political rival.
Mr Usman had only just returned to the bank after being suspended by General Abubakar's predecessor, the late Sani Abacha, for objecting too strongly to his raiding of the country's coffers.
In depositions Etete claims he has taped conversations of meetings he had with Abubakar's middlemen, discussing the payment of bribes to Abubakar, President Obasanjo and Shell managing director Ron van den Berg.
With a transitional government under Chief Abiola running the country, General Abubakar's task would be to act as its guarantor and try to prise military fingers from the tills and levers of power.
Abubakar may make some moves like having a deal with Abiola (provided Abiola survives the storm after Abacha's death) but I think Abiola will not settle for anything less than the "oga" of Nigeria.
The BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar in Kano says the Sunday evening attack on a police station in the Naibawa district, on the outskirts of Kano, happened just before the start of the dusk-to-dawn curfew.
Abubakar should form a "leaders Committee" that will include Abiola, Idiagbon and all former Heads of State or Presidents to appoint an interim Head of State that will arrange and supervise elections within a year.
Mr Abubakar, who ran Nigeria for just 11 months in 1998 and 1999, could be expected to face questions over the mysterious deaths of both his predecessor Abacha, and a jailed civilian opposition leader, Moshood Abiola.
While the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan has started a committee to look at the idea of offering an amnesty deal to extremist fighters, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has dismissed the idea out of hand in messages.
While the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan has started a committee to look at the idea of offering an amnesty deal to extremist fighters, Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau has dismissed the idea out of hand in messages.
General Abubakar's refusal to take political jobs in the past, and his pledge this week that he will stick to the October 1st deadline for handing over power to a civilian government, suggest that he agrees with them.
Now General Abubakar has a golden chance to exploit the goodwill that the West is ready to give to a country that it sees, not just as a big oil-producer, but as an international power in an unstable region.
At the least, General Abubakar had been expected to abolish the five political parties licensed by his predecessor and extend the deadline for the handover until a more convincing political set-up could take over, perhaps at the end of the year.
In a written deposition to Nigeria's House Committee on petroleum resources, which is investigating the charges, Etete claims to have dined in August 2000 with Vice President Atiku Abubakar who, Etete says, demanded a stake as a condition for not revoking the license.
Former supporters from all over the country, including the head of the army, Ishiaya Bamaiyi, and two former military rulers, Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida (who is close to General Abubakar), are saying that it is time for the army to leave politics.
July 8th, the day after he died and the end of a month of official mourning for Abacha's death, had been billed for some time as the moment for Nigeria's new ruler, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, to announce a new programme for the transition to democracy, still promised for October 1st.
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