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...
Abdulsalami Abubakar's military regime...
Abdulsalami Abubakar and Yakubu Gowon have quietly warned that a third term for Obasanjo could threaten national stability...
Obasanjo sent his country's former head of state General Abdulsalami Abubakar to urge Jammeh to comply then visited Banjul in person...
Abdulsalami Abubakar awarded eleven other blocks to senior military officers in favour at the time and Abacha's business partners Gilbert and Jack Chagoury (AC Vol 40 No 7)...
Last month former heads of state Shehu Shagari Ernest Shonekan and Abdulsalami Abubakar tried to bring the two sides together amid optimistic noises from Obasanjo's political advisor Jerry Gana...
Abdulsalami Abubakar who had presented himself as a reforming military leader determined to hand over to civil rule and who met with TSKJ officials in December 1998...
While Greenstock maintains that there can be no place in the proposed transitional government for the rebels of the Liberians United for Reconstruction and Development (LURD) and the Movement for Democracy in Liberia (Model) a Nigerian former military leader and now the Liberia mediator General Abdulsalami Abubakar may have to accept many of the rebels' demands for Liberian reconstruction...
Ecowas is leading the latest round of peace talks in Ghana with Nigerian former leader Abdulsalami Abubakar as facilitator...