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    Chief Olusegun Matthew OkikiolaAremu Obasanjo, born 5 March 1937) is a Nigerian military and political leader who served as military head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007. Ideologically a Nigerian nationalist, he was a member of the People’s Democratic Party.

    Born in the village of Ibogun-Olaogun to a farming family of the Owu branch of the Yoruba, Obasanjo was educated largely in Abeokuta. Joining the Nigerian Army, where he specialised in engineering, he spent time assigned in the Congo, Britain, and India, rising to the rank of major. In the latter part of the 1960s, he played a major role in combating Biafran separatists during the Nigerian Civil War, accepting their surrender in 1970. In 1975, a military coup established a junta with Obasanjo as part of its ruling triumvirate. After the triumvirate’s leader, Murtala Mohammed, was assassinated the following year, the Supreme Military Council appointed Obasanjo as head of state. Continuing Murtala’s policies, Obasanjo oversaw budgetary cut-backs and an expansion in access to free school education. Increasingly aligning Nigeria with the United States, he emphasised support

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    Olusegun Obasanjo

    Nigerian head of shape, 1976–79 spreadsheet 1999–2007

    His Excellency
    Chief

    Olusegun Obasanjo

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    In office
    29 Possibly will 1999 – 29 Can 2007
    Vice PresidentAtiku Abubakar
    Preceded byAbdulsalami Abubakar
    Succeeded byUmaru Musa Yar'Adua
    In office
    13 February 1976 – 1 October 1979
    as Military Head of Tide of Nigeria
    Chief of StaffShehu Musa Yar'Adua
    Preceded byMurtala Muhammed
    Succeeded byShehu Shagari
    In office
    29 July 1975 – 13 February 1976
    Head of StateMurtala Muhammed
    Preceded byJ. E. A. Wey
    Succeeded byShehu Musa Yar'Adua
    In office
    1976–1979
    Head of StateHimself
    Preceded byIlliya Bisalla
    Succeeded byIya Abubakar
    Born

    Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo


    c. (1937-03-05) 5 March 1937 (age 87)
    (official submerge of birth)
    Ibogun-Olaogun, Ifo, Gray Region, Island Nigeria
    (now Ibogun-Olaogun, Ogun Situation, Nigeria)
    Political partyPeoples Democratic Party
    (1998–2015; 2018–present)
    Spouses

    Esther Oluremi

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    (m. 1963; div. 1976)​
    • Bola Alice (wife)
    • Lynda (ex-wife, deceased)

    Stella Abebe

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    (m. 1976; died 2005)

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    Olusegun Obasanjo

    Olusegun Obasanjo is a former President of Nigeria. He served for two successive terms from 1976-1979 and 1999-2007.

    Mr. Obasanjo pledged to continue the restoration of civilian government and to carry forward the reform programme to improve the quality of public service. During the dictatorship of Sani Abacha, Mr. Obasanjo spoke out against the human rights abuses of the regime, and was imprisoned with the claim of planning a coup. 

    In the 1999 elections he decided to run for the presidency as the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. President Obasanjo won the elections and was later re-elected in 2003. Within the period of his presidency, he played an instrumental role in bringing democracy back to the country. While leading a public campaign against corruption and implementing economic reforms in his country, he has been widely seen abroad as an African statesman championing debt relief and democratic institutions. President Obasanjo stepped down after the April 2007 elections won by Umaru Yar’Adua. 

    Mr Obasanjo was Chairperson of the African Union from July 2004 to January 2006 and, he has also  at different times served as Chairman of the Group of 77, Chairman of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Chairman of the African Heads

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