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General Olusegun Obasanjo
General Olusegun Obasanjo was born in
Ogun State, in March 1937. Trained in Nigeria, India, Britain and the
United States,
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some high points of Obasanjo's 21-year
military career include serving in the UN peace keeping mission in the
former Congo as
well as several command appointments including
Commander of the famous Third Marine Commando Division during Nigeria's
civil war.
It was to Obasanjo as that Division's
Commander that Biafran Army surrendered to the Federal side to end the
war in January 1970. He succeeded the assassinated General Murtala Muhammed
as Head of State in 1976. Three years after, in 1979 General Obasanjo
wrote his name in gold by handing over power to Nigeria's first democratically
elected Executive President, Alhaji Shehu Shagan.
After retirement, General Obasanjo became
the co-chairman of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group on South Africa.
He founded in 1988, the African Leadership
Forum based in his Otta farm, near Lagos, was a successful poultry farmer
and author of many publications including "Africa Embattled"
1988 and "My Command" 1979, an account of the Nigerian Civil
War.
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