According to President Obasanjo's draft list of ministers circulating in Abuja only six survive from the previous government: the lacklustre Professor Babalola Borishade (Education); Muktar Shagari (Water Resources son of former President Shehu Shagari); Turner Isoun (Science and Technology); Isa Yuguda and Odion Ugbesia (both ministers of State); and Adamu Bello as Agriculture Minister which is to be Obasanjo's top priority to generate jobs...
Republic under threat A compromise worked out by two former heads of state Alhaji Shehu Shagari and Yakubu Gowon was drafted out of concern that the impeachment threatened the republic...
As military leader from January 1984 to August 1985 he gaoled journalists for publishing stories against the interests of the state even if they were true; and he detained dozens of politicians from the civilian Shehu Shagari's government...
Obstacle course Two other northern leaders former President Shehu Shagari and Gen...
Director of Military Intelligence under President Shehu Shagari Gusau was Coordinator of National Security under Babangida and Chief of Army Staff in the short-lived interim government of his friend Ernest Shonekan...
Former President Shehu Shagari looked at ease ensconced next to the general (Muhammadu Buhari) who overthrew him in 1983...
Ciroma Agriculture Minister under President Shehu Shagari's civilian government and briefly Trade Minister under Abacha is an experienced political jobber from the north-east...
While Yar’Adua was seen as part of the cabal which favoured Shehu Shagari’s National Party of Nigeria in the 1979 polls his group broke with the NPN in 1983 and backed Yoruba leader Obafemi Awolowo (who died in 1987)...
Headquartered in Lagos then Abuja Ecowas was always seen by Francophone states as a Nigerian show despite the Francophile diplomacy of President Shehu Shagari General Ibrahim Babangida and latterly Gen...
Some traditionalists from the south-west say Obasanjo was never ‘one of us' because he handed over power to a northern President Alhaji Shehu Shagari when his chief rival Obafemi Awolowo was still legally challenging the election result...