General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo

There was praise too for Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo's term as AU Chairman from former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori...

The party faithful ask what role retiring President Olusegun Obasanjo will play after he has handed over power on 31 May...

At the heart of policy-making for much of President Olusegun Obasanjo's two terms the reform team of Nigerian technocrats is breaking up raising doubts about the continuity of economic policy after the elections...

Olusegun Obasanjo Buhari wants sweeping reforms to the federal system such as cutting the number of states from 36 to 15...

He believed that only by direct involvement in the political process could he salvage what he regarded as the values and achievements of the military regime in which as Chief of Staff of Supreme Military Headquarters and served as de facto number two to Olusegun Obasanjo in the late 1970s...

It is a selection that seems certain to raise tensions in the region as Ude is a supporter of controversial power broker Chris Uba who is now estranged from his brother Andy Uba formerly a close aide to President Olusegun Obasanjo and now running for state governor...

He did not know if Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo Chair of NePAD's top-level Implementation Committee or Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou Nguesso Chair of the AU would take up his proposal...

Yet the key focus will be on the presidency with three leading contenders: from Katsina in the far north Umaru Yar’Adua who stands for the governing People’s Democratic Party; Muhammadu Buhari for the All Nigeria People’s Party; Atiku Abubakar President Olusegun Obasanjo’s estranged deputy and like his rivals a Muslim northerner picked up the Action Congress nomination in late December...

President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria had already brokered an agreement but details remain vague and Wade is impatient...

Vice-President Atiku Abubakar launched his campaign for the presidency in Abuja on 25 November insisting that he could win elections due next April despite the open hostility of the incumbent Olusegun Obasanjo his suspension from the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and pending corruption charges...