Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo Celebrates His 87th Birthday Today – DROP A WORD FOR HIM

Today is the 87th birthday of Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, and we wish him a long life to reap what he sow!

Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo GCFR (born 5 March 1937) is a Nigerian retired military General and statesman who served as Nigeria’s head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007.

Ideologically a Nigerian nationalist, he was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from 1998 to 2015, and since 2018.

Obasanjo has been described as one of the great figures of the second generation of post-colonial African leaders.

He received praise both for overseeing Nigeria’s transition to representative democracy in the 1970s and for his Pan-African efforts to encourage cooperation across the continent.

Critics maintain that he was guilty of corruption, that his administrations oversaw human rights abuses, and that as president he became too interested in consolidating and maintaining his power.

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