What party barons wanted was an overwhelming victory for their presidential candidate Olusegun Obasanjo and most of their 36 state governorship candidates in the 19 April elections...
When a senior member of the Commonwealth observer team was told that victorious Rivers Governor Odili was a contender for the presidency after Olusegun Obasanjo he replied: `God help Nigeria...
Even if President Olusegun Obasanjo hasn't actively protected Abubakar and Babangida from demands for their investigation and prosecution on charges of misuse of public funds he's done nothing to advance such claims...
President Olusegun Obasanjo was elected in 1999 partly in the belief he would tame the military...
Nigeria's elections were pulled back from the brink of collapse on 16 April when leading opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari insisted he would not join a boycott of presidential polls due on 19 April despite claims of massive fraud by supporters of incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo in legislative elections on 12 April...
Then on 17 March Mbeki along with Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade wrote to the Security Council on behalf of the AU arguing that the threat of force had persuaded Saddam's regime to cooperate with the UN arms inspectors making unnecessary a new military attack on Iraq...
Press reports on the audit followed soon after a letter from Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki to Australian Prime Minister John Howard proposing that Commonwealth sanctions should not be renewed because human rights abuses were declining and land reform was working better...
The most serious is whether the 18 April presidential election can be held within President Olusegun Obasanjo's mandate...
This is the arena in which struggles between the periphery and centre are played out especially in the ruling PDP where the state governors looked set to rebel against President Olusegun Obasanjo at the PDP convention in January and vote instead for Alex Ekwueme as their flagbearer...
The incumbent and former military head of state Olusegun Obasanjo is a proselytising evangelical Christian from the south-west...
