His former peers – Meles Zenawi Moammar el Gadaffi Olusegun Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki – are long gone from power so Uganda's leadership in his view is filling a dangerous political vacuum...
Vol 55 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
For example the finance ministers who were asked to consider new financing proposals drawn up by a committee led by Nigeria's ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo have yet to meet...
The row continues over the leaking of former President Olusegun Obasanjo's critical 18-page letter to Jonathan and a shorter one from Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi...
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This year started with a row between President Goodluck Jonathan and former President Olusegun Obasanjo; and it is ending with a second and bigger row between the two...
The authors of both letters former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido Aminu Sanusi are genuinely annoyed by the leaking of they what they insist was private correspondence to the President...
The most generous interpretation is that he was torn between the vengeful faction of the governing People's Democratic Party (PDP) under National Chairman Bamanga Tukur who wanted the toughest sanctions against party dissidents and more tactical operators such as former President Olusegun Obasanjo who wanted to tie the rebels up in tortuous negotiations about reconciliation...
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The two candidates claiming the official PDP mantle are: Andy Uba who is recognised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and a former acolyte of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo; and Tony Nwoye recognised by the PDP's National Executive Committee as the party's official candidate...
Since the 31 August split the rival factions of the PDP divided their time between lengthy internal meetings and trying to enlist the backing of party elders such as former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former military leader General Ibrahim Babangida...
The crisis is serious enough to have sent party barons such as former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Tony Anenih Chairman of the party's Board of Trustees scuttling around trying to launch some form of mediation between factions...
By noon on 1 August Tsvangirai had dismissed the polls as ‘null and void' in sharp contrast to the early verdict from the head of the African Union's Election Monitors Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the ‘conduct of the election has been ‘peaceful orderly free and fair'...
