Many are now drawing parallels between the excesses of the incumbents and the Shehu Shagari government under which Dikko served and which was ousted by the military...
Particular targets were those northerners who had endorsed Jonathan such as former President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari and the Emir of Gwandu Muhammad Iliyasu Bashar...
The anti-corruption enthusiasm of both Ribadu and Buhari worry the northern elite such as the Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III and former President Shehu Shagari who was ousted by Buhari in a military coup in 1983...
Among them are Gombe Governor Danjuma Goje; Muktar Shagari Deputy Governor of Sokoto State and son of ex-President Shehu Shagari; and Ahmed Makarfi a senator and one-time Governor of Kaduna...
There are uneasy similarities between the latest events and those before the collapse of Nigeria's Second Republic led by President Shehu Shagari amid the disputed elections of 1983...
A former policeman Anenih who is 75 has served every military and civilian regime since Shehu Shagari became President in 1979...
As he elegantly stretches out in a rented Mayfair apartment and insists on discussing 'policy issues not personalities' it is easy to forget that General Muhamadu Buhari headed the fearsome junta that overthrew the ineffectual Shehu Shagari civilian government in 1983...
Most took part in at least one of Nigeria's three grand political arrangements: the 1979 election deal by which Obasanjo as military ruler handed power to a civilian regime headed by Shehu Shagari (President 1979-83) despite widespread protests about the election; the 1999 deal which brought Obasanjo back to power as the PDP's presidential candidate; and those who backed Obasanjo in the 2002 presidential primaries...
The top managers of the new Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD) are Lawal Kaita (former Kaduna State Governor under President Shehu Shagari); Ghali Na'abba (Speaker of the House of Representatives in President Olusegun Obasanjo's first term); Abubakar Rimi (Kano Governor under Shagari); and Audu Ogbeh ousted as the People's Democratic Party (PDP) national Chairman (AC Vol 46 No 18)...
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...
