Sentences with phrase «civilian president»

Buhari, a former military general, had on May 29, 2015, while being inaugurated as civilian president after defeating Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party promised to carry all sections of the country along in his administration by saying «I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody».

The communiqué said, «In his inaugural speech as civilian president of Nigeria on May 29, 2015, the President sent out a message of hope and of his commitment to national integration and cohesion.

In 1985, for example, José Sarney became the country's first civilian president after 21 years of military rule and promised to expropriate 14 million hectares of land and settle 1.4 million peasants.

Buhari, who like Obasanjo headed a military government before being elected civilian president, spent much of last year being treated for an undisclosed illness in London.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday congratulated Mr. Roch Kabore of the Movement of People for Progress Party on his election as the second civilian President of Burkina Faso.

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.

Also absent at today's meeting are former civilian president Alhaji Shehu Sagari and General Ibrahim Babangida.

The win was significant because the country won the laurel 30 years ago when the current civilian president, Muhammadu Buhari was also the Head of state of a military junta.

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...»

Although Colombia is nominally under a civilian regime, the military forces are really in command — not only lurking behind the civilian president and congress, but recently emerging into the open with the «militarization» of vast regions of the country.

Although Colombia is nominally under a civilian regime, the military forces are really in command — not only lurking behind the civilian president and congress, but recently...

«As a civilian president I will do my best and I'm telling you all these because you are part of the leadership of this great country and God willing we will remain great.»

In his coming as civilian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, once himself a soldier, and a very key ally of the «international community» literally transferred the offices of Nigeria's Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning to the Headquarters of the World Bank and the IMF.

On the significance of the inauguration of Sierra Leone's President, the vice president said it was a great celebration of democracy as the transition was peaceful from one civilian president to another.