A close associate of one of Abacha's sons Mohammed Bagudu joined the network that enabled the Abacha family to loot as much as $5 billion from the treasury according to an investigation by Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar's interim regime and lawsuits in multiple countries...

General supportThe arrival of former head of military intelligence General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau on the second day of the congress telling PDP officials that he and his fellow northern generals Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar would support Atiku's campaign if he got the nomination was the final boost...

Generals Abdulsalami Abubakar (who is Babangida's neighbour in Minna the capital of Niger State) and Theophilus Danjuma are also uneasy about current trends but less inclined to speak out publicly...

Abdulsalami Abubakar businessman Aliko Dangote Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan and the Anglican Primate Archbishop Nicholas Dikeriehi Orogodo Okoh...

Obasanjo informs Jonathan that he has discussed his concern about current developments with his fellow retired generals Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar (both former heads of state) and Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma...

) Abdulsalami Abubakar and Burundian ex-President Pierre Buyoya AUHIP was established in October 2009 to succeed the AU High-Level Panel on Darfur...

Talks on the amnesty included the Sultan of Sokoto Sa’ad Abubakar III former military leader General Abdulsalami Abubakar and other senior figures in the northern elite and security services...

The diplomatic approach reflects the preferred style of Mbeki and two former presidents Burundi's Pierre Buyoya and Nigeria's General Abdulsalami Abubakar and Egypt's ex-Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher...

He served as Nigeria's UN envoy in the 1990s and was an apologist for the military regimes of General Sani Abacha and Major General Abdulsalami Abubakar...