Sentences with phrase «as a military head of state»

There is difference between when he was there as military head of state and today that he is there as elected president.

My admiration for him actually started when he was in office as military head of state, in the 1980s.

President Buhari, clearly with the most reasonable claim to decency in the public space, even after tenure as military head of state, is clearly last.

Osuntokun said Buhari should not forget to blame himself for Nigeria's woes since he is also a former leader having served as a military head of state from 1983 to 1985.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja vowed never to allow history to repeat itself like during his term as military Head of State when corruption to fought and defeated as well as incarcerated him.

On Buhari's rumoured bid in 2019, Bakare replied: «It's his fundamental constitutional right to run or not to run but whether it would now be accepted in the way it was accepted before... He came as military Head of State, he has come as civilian president, Jesus himself is only coming twice...»

Fayose, however, lamented that Obasanjo wasted all the golden opportunities that he had to make this country great, first as a military Head of State and later as a two - term civilian President.

«This same thing only happened when the incumbent President ruled this country as a military head of state.

The man was too good, but he failed as military head of state, lost three consecutive elections, a record in Nigeria, now unsure as president.

As chief of Army staff, he was military enforcer of Obasanjo's tenure as military head of state (1976 - 1979).

He was even applauded by many when he claimed he could not afford the presidential nomination form of his party despite having served as a military head of state, a key player in another military government adjudged as most corrupt by both local and international bodies, a former military governor, a petroleum minister and chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), an agency that was also alleged of corruption.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja vowed never to allow history to repeat itself like during his term as military Head of State...

At this first coming in 1984, Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as military head of state, had to endure the head - splitting headache from the hangover of President Shehu Shagari's National Party of Nigeria (NPN) freeloaders, in Nigeria's Second Republic (1 October 1979 — 31 December 1983).

Under his tenure as military head of state, he changed the National Anthem, arguing that the new reflected Nigeria's African essence more than the old.

Immediate past National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), has sworn that he never maltreated nor took part in maltreating President Muhammadu Buhari when he, as military head of state was removed in a coup in 1985 as being erroneously alleged.

He said the President's attitude was yet to change from that of 1984 when he was military Head of State, adding that; «Buhari's statement in Tehran, Iran that it was easier for him as a military Head of State in 1984 to arrest corrupt individuals and put them in protective custody was a pointer to the fact that he has not changed from the dictator that he was then.

I served under him as a military Head of State.

Immediate past National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), has sworn that he never maltreated nor took part in maltreating President Muhammadu Buhari when he, as military head of state was removed in a -LSB-...]

He recalled how his refusal to adhere to an advice from the IMF, World Bank to devalue the naira and increase prices of fuel and flour, as a military Head of State, led to his removal.