Sani Abacha;20 September 1943 –8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who ruled as the military head of state after seizing power in 1993 until his death in 1998. Abacha's seizure of power was the last successful coup d'état in Nigerian military history.
Shehu Musa Yar'Adua;5 March 1943 –8 December 1997) was a Nigerian general and politician who was the de facto vice president of Nigeria as Chief of Staff,Supreme Headquarters when Nigeria was under military rule from 1976 to 1979. He was a prominent politician during the later transition from military to civilian rule in the late 1980s and into the 1990s.
Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo is a former Senator of Nigeria,who became a state governor,and later was head of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Communications.
Donaldson Oladipo Oyeyinka Diya,;3 April 1944 –26 March 2023) was a Nigerian general and lawyer who served as Chief of General Staff under military head of state General Sani Abacha from 1994 until his arrest for treason in 1997. He also served as Chief of Defence Staff and as military governor of Ogun State from January 1984 to August 1985.
Abdulsalami Abubakar is a Nigerian statesman and retired Nigerian army general who served as the military head of state of Nigeria from 1998 to 1999. He was also Chief of Defence Staff from 1997 to 1998. He succeeded General Sani Abacha upon his death.
Theophilus O Bamigboye is a retired Nigerian Colonel who served as Military Administrator of Bauchi State and then Osun State before the return to democracy in May 1999. He later entered politics,competing for governorship of Kwara State in 2007.
Mustapha Ismail was administrator of Kwara State from December 1993 to September 1994,and was later military administrator of Adamawa State between September 1994 and August 1996 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.
Colonel Rasheed Alade Shekoni started his military career as a young boy in the Nigerian Military School where he did his form 1 to form 5 before moving to the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA).
Ibrahim Taiwo was a Military Governor of Kwara State from July 1975 to February 1976 during the military regime of General Murtala Mohammed. He assisted in establishment of the University of Ilorin,which was founded by decree August,1975.
Abdulkareem Adisa was a Nigerian major general who was military governor of Oyo State during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. He was convicted for involvement in an attempted coup against military head of state General Sani Abacha in 1997,and was on death row when Abacha died in June 1998. He was subsequently pardoned.
Walter FeghaboFeghabo was born on August 15,1956,in Warri,Delta State,Nigeria. He was raised in Warri and attended primary and secondary schools in the city. Navy Commander (retired) Walter Feghabo served as the first Military Administrator of Ebonyi State in Nigeria between October 1996 and August 1998 after Ebonyi State was created from parts of Enugu State and Abia State during the military regime of General Sani Abacha. He was then appointed administrator of Delta State in August 1998 during the transitional regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar,handing over to the elected civilian governor James Ibori on 29 May 1999. In June 1999,all former military administrators in the Abacha and Abubakar regimes were retired by the Federal Government,including Walter Feghabo.
Colonel Umar Farouk Ahmed was Military Administrator of Cross River State,Nigeria during the military regime of General Sani Abacha. He was then appointed administrator of Kaduna State in August 1998 during the transitional regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar,handing over power to the elected civilian governor Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi in May 1999. Shortly after,he was retired by the Federal Government,along with all other former military ministers,governors and administrators.
Suleiman Saidu is a retired Nigerian Navy Rear Admiral who served as Chief of Naval Staff from September to November 1993.
Mohammed Chris Alli was a Nigerian Army major general who served as Chief of Army Staff from 1993 to 1994 under General Sani Abacha's regime and was military governor of Plateau State Nigeria from August 1985 to 1986 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. Many years later,he was appointed interim administrator of the state during a 2004 crisis in the state following ethno-religious killings in Shendam,Yelwa Local Government.
Lawrence Anebi Onoja was the military governor of Plateau State,Nigeria from 1986 to July 1988 and then of Katsina State until December 1989 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. He later became Principal Staff Officer to General Sani Abacha,before being arrested for alleged involvement in a coup attempt. He retired from the army in 1998,and after the return to democracy in May 1999 with the Nigerian Fourth Republic entered into politics.
Emmanuel A. Acholonu is a retired Commodore in the Nigerian Navy and the former Administrator of Katsina State in Nigeria from December 1993 to August 1996 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.
Colonel (retired) Peter A.M. Ogar was Military Administrator of Kwara State,Nigeria between August 1996 and August 1998 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha. After the return to democracy in 1999,Ogar was required to retire,as were all other former military administrators. When the United Nigeria Development Forum was formed by former military governors in April 2001,Ogar was a member of the steering committee.
Brigadier General (retired) Ahmed Abdullahi was Military Administrator of Kwara State,Nigeria between December 1987 and July 1988 during the military regime under General Ibrahim Babangida.
Hamza Al-Mustapha is a retired Nigerian Army major,intelligence officer and politician who served as Chief Security Officer to Head of State General Sani Abacha from 1993 until his death on 8 June 1998.
Ishaya Rizi Bamaiyi,is a retired Nigerian Army lieutenant general who served as Chief of Army Staff from 1996 to 1999 during the military regime of Generals Sani Abacha and Abdulsalami Abubakar. His older brother was Major General Musa Bamaiyi,former Head of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
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