Many of Abacha’s security kingpins were purged by the subsequent civilian government of President Olusegun Obasanjo and some were arrested...
Earlier fears of widespread unrest however had led to the arrival of Olusegun Obasanjo at the head of a ‘peace mission’...
Jonathan’s PDP lost the state when Mimiko a minister under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo (1999-2007) came to power on the back of an Appeal Court verdict...
Academically successful at the University of Ibadan a career officer and a Yoruba he was appointed by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo...
While Ribadu was accused of selectively targeting corrupt people who just happened to be political enemies of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo her sin was to slow down the whole anti-corruption process critics said...
Jonathan who is no economic specialist brought in Okonjo-Iweala a former World Bank executive and Finance Minister under former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999-2007 to be in charge of Government Reform and the ‘Super Ministry’ of Finance (AC Vol 52 No 14)...
Others are inherited from his People’s Democratic Party mentor Olusegun Obasanjo who was President from 1999 to 2007...
One cable from the US Embassy in Abuja four months before 9/11 reports that former President Olusegun Obasanjo cut short a discussion of a rendition exercise referred to as ‘what we did last time’ with a jokey stage whisper: ‘Ssh...
Sir Peter Odili ex-Governor (1999-2007) of Rivers another oil-rich state was moments away from being nominated as a vice-presidential candidate when (insiders say) outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo struck his name out of the acceptance speech prepared for Umaru Musa Yar’Adua who went on to win the governing party’s presidential primary in December 2006...
Their willingness to be coopted by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and now by Jonathan has undermined them and their institutions just as radical groups such as Boko Haram and Hijrah are stepping up arms seizures and attacks on police stations...