Abuja first canvassed the prospect of reform after the return to civilian rule in 1999 when then President Olusegun Obasanjo found that the thicket of overlapping and sometimes contradictory legislation prevented the reverse of some of the most egregious and politically motivated contract and licence awards made by the military (AC Vol 40 No 21 Cleaning up oil)...

Dokubo-Asari was arrested and detained alongside Gani Adams of the O'odua People's Congress and Ralph Uwazurike of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) when Olusegun Obasanjo was President two decades ago...

Days after former President Olusegun Obasanjo – who has found fault with all of his successors – described Nigeria as 'fast drifting to a failed and badly divided state' under President Buhari and an economic basket case Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka uncharacteristically agreed with his kinsman...

Appointed by President Olusegun Obasanjo to run the federal privatisation programme El-Rufai then took over as minister of the federal capital territory (mayor of Abuja) where he won a reputation for arbitrary unaccountable and sectional decision-making...

As a national trade union leader with a penchant for khaki safari suits 'Comrade Adams' was a thorn in the side of President Olusegun Obasanjo's government...

Olusegun Obasanjo led from the front to make and drive policy to wheel and deal and take to the public stage...

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo told Sanusi that his dethroning was 'sad because it is undeserved… [and] good because you have paid the price'...

He is also close to Kenya's Raila Odinga and Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo...

Atiku a perennial presidential contender was sidelined in party primaries by then President Olusegun Obasanjo ahead of the 2003 elections...