Since returning to power as civilian President in 1999 Obasanjo has overhauled the military dismissing any officers who had held political postings in the military regimes led by Generals Sani Abacha Ibrahim Babangida and Muhammadu Buhari...
Western leaders were divided on the relative merits of Obasanjo and opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari...
The heaviest criticism was from opposition All Nigeria People's Party presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari who told loyalists and journalists in Abuja that the 19 April presidential poll was the most fraudulent in Nigeria's history and urged foreign governments not to recognise the Obasanjo government after its current mandate expires on 29 May...
Muhammadu Buhari: 'The situations are completely different...
Both Obasanjo and his main opponent Muhammadu Buhari will have to trim their economic nationalism...
Nigeria's elections were pulled back from the brink of collapse on 16 April when leading opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari insisted he would not join a boycott of presidential polls due on 19 April despite claims of massive fraud by supporters of incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo in legislative elections on 12 April...
Harry had been organising an election rally for the opposition presidential candidate General Muhammadu Buhari in Rivers State on 8 March...
Muhammadu Buhari who has to win several states to make inroads into Obasanjo's support base...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
His main opponent the northern former military ruler Major General Muhammadu Buhari from the All Nigeria People's Party crucially lacks the support of powerful former President Ibrahim Babangida...
General Muhammadu Buhari the former military ruler seeking the presidential nomination of the All People's Party (AC Vol 43 No 9) backs the Sharia criminal code and calls on states with substantial Muslim populations to implement it...
It is a measure of Nigeria's political class that in next year's presidential election the two most likely candidates - Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari - are retired generals and former military leaders...