STEPHENBOI:
1.Sani Abacha; Abacha was a Nigerian Army officer and politician who served as the de facto President {Head of State} of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998. Abacha’s military career is distinguished by a string of successful coups. He is by some records the most successful coup plotter in the history of Nigeria’s military.

Abacha, then a 2nd Lieutenant with the 3rd Battalion in Kaduna, took part in the July 1966 Nigerian counter-coup from the conceptual stage. On 17 November 1993, Abacha overthrew the short-lived transitional government of Chief Ernest Shonekan . In September 1994, he issued a decree that placed his government above the jurisdiction of the courts, effectively giving him absolute power. Another decree gave him the right to detain anyone for up to three months without trial.

Abacha’s government was accused of human rights abuses, especially after the hanging of Ogoni activist,Ken Saro-Wiwa. Moshood Abiola and Olusegun Obasanjo were jailed for treason, and Wole Soyinka charged in absentia with treason. During Abacha’s regime, he and his family reportedly stole a total of £ 5 billion from the country’s coffers. In 2004, Abacha was listed as the fourth most corrupt leader in history. Abacha died in June 1998 while at the presidential villa in Abuja.

2. Lamidi Adedibu: Lamidi Ariyibi Akanji Adedibu was an aristocratic power broker in Oyo State , Nigeria . Former President Olusegun Obasanjo described him as the “father of the PDP.

His brand of politics was described as a blend of populism and raw thuggery that often compelled either violent loyalty or violent opposition. It was said that nobody assumed any political post in Oyo state without Adedibu’s approval, leading to him being called “the strong man of Ibadan politics” he was a tyrant during his days.

He bought the philosophy that Oyo state cannot serve a single governor for 2 term, the gin that was broken by the present governor Ajimobi. There’s a saying in ibadan about him that says “idameji ibadan ti won pe ni enikan so so” Adedibu died at the University College Hospital in Ibadan on 11 June 2008

3. Olusegu Obasanjo: Obasanjo was a career soldier before serving twice as his nation’s head of state. He served as a military ruler from 13 February 1976 to 1 October 1979, and as a democratically elected president from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007. From July 2004 to January 2006, Following a failed coup by Lt. Col. Dimka in which General Murtala Mohammed was killed.

Obasanjo was chosen as head of state by the supreme military council on 13 February 1976. Obasanjo resigned as head of state and also resigned from the army on 1 October 1979, handing over power to the newly elected civilian president of Shehu Shagari. Obasanjo was also accused of being responsible for political repression. In one particular instance, the compound of Nigerian musician and political activist Fela Kuti was raided and burned to the ground after a member of his commune was involved in an altercation with military personnel. Fela and his family were beaten and raped and his mother, political activist Funmilayo Ransome Kuti , was killed by being thrown from a window. Her coffin was carried to Obasanjo’s barracks as a protest against political repression.

In 2003, President Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ ran for a second term under People’s Democratic Party and won by a margin of more than 11 million votes. Obasanjo was embroiled in controversy regarding his “Third Term Agenda,” a plan to modify the constitution so he could serve a third, four-year term as President. This led to a political media uproar in Nigeria and the bill was not ratified by the National Assembly.

4. Bola Tinubu: Chief Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu was elected Senator for the Lagos West constituency in Lagos State , Nigeria in 1993. This election was just prior to a military take-over in December 1993. After the return to democracy, he was elected governor of Lagos State, holding office from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007.

He is an influential member of the All Progressives Congress party; he also holds both the chieftaincies of the
Asiwaju of Lagos and the Jagaban of the Borgu Kingdom in Niger State. The Asiwaju of Lagos single-handedly install Fashola and governor Ambode as the governor of most populous state in africa and also the strongest pillar in the Nigeria general election in 2015 that made buhari the president of nigeria

5. Olusola Saraki: Abubakar Olusola Saraki was a Nigerian politician, who was a Senator of the Nigerian Second Republic (1979-1983). He was a ranking nobleman of the Ilorin Emirate. In 1977, Olusola Saraki was elected as a member of the Constituent Assembly that produced the 1979 constitution.

In 1979 he was elected a Senator of the Second Republic, and became Senate Leader. In 1983 Saraki was re-elected into the Senate on the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) platform. He successfully pave way for his children in politics, His son Bukola Saraki is the senate president since June 9, 2015 the Eighth Senate of Nigeria

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Written By; Stephen