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...
Muhammadu Buhari Babangida and Sani Abacha...
Muhammadu Buhari Babangida and Sani Abacha...
Muhammadu Buhari lauds the virtues of Sharia and shares platforms with northern opposition figures...
Muhammadu Buhari: Jokolo has strongly backed both Sharia and the Arewa People's Congress a Northern political group set up to counter the South-West's militantly Yoruba nationalist OPC...
Former President Shehu Shagari looked at ease ensconced next to the general (Muhammadu Buhari) who overthrew him in 1983...
Along with Muhammadu Buhari and Yakubu Gowon Danjuma was one of the few retired generals who kept in touch with Abacha...
Muhammadu Buhari quickly met with Abubakar and pledged support; both now condemn military rule as aberrant and abhorrent...
Muhammadu Buhari whose reputation is intact...
Muhammadu Buhari's coup against Shagari northern opinion has been ambivalent towards the successive military regimes...