General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

Yar’Adua is more modest than his unpopular predecessor Olusegun Obasanjo...

Andy Uba served as a Special Advisor to President Olusegun Obasanjo throughout most of his eight years in office...

His understated approach and constant references to the rule of law could hardly be more different from the style of his rumbustious predecessor Olusegun Obasanjo...

The most important African newcomer should be President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria whose predecessor Olusegun Obasanjo hosted the CHOGM four years ago...

Private sector oligarchs favoured by former President Olusegun Obasanjo have been pushed on to the defensive pre-emptively and have withdrawn from the much-criticised plan to privatise oil refineries...

Yar'Adua inherits despite wide-ranging criticism of President Olusegun Obasanjo's government the strongest fiscal position and highest foreign reserves in real terms of any government since Independence in 1960...

BFI Chief Executive Reuben Jaja then launched legal actions in the USA and Nigeria claiming that officials in President Olusegun Obasanjo's government had acted illegally and intervened in Rusal's favour...

Many around Yar'Adua disown the elections blaming the outrageous fraud and violence on avaricious state governors and ruling party hacks loyal to outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo...

He was a driving force among the team of reformers during President Olusegun Obasanjo's second term: Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Education Minister Obi Ezekwesili anti-corruption czar Nuhu Ribadu and Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprise Irene Chigbue...

Parliaments prevented three presidents - Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo Zambia's Frederick Chiluba and Malawi's Bakili Muluzi - from fixing constitutions to stand for third terms in office...