Sentences with phrase «former military dictator»

Park, the country's first female president, is the daughter of former military dictator, Park...

While faulting former military dictator Ibrahim Babangida's recent intervention in the Boko Haram crisis, he argued that the ex-dictator ought to have spoken before then.

Reports from Freetown, the Sierra Leonean capital, indicated that the main opposition party, the Sierra Leonean Peoples Party [SLPP] has also picked former military dictator, Maada Bio as its candidate after protracted internal factionalisation.

He stated that when former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, set up an interim national government in 1993, the dictator offered him a position in the government through the late General Shehu Yar» Adua (ret.).

Park, the country's first female president, is the daughter of former military dictator, Park Chung - hee, and won the presidency with that support.

Former military dictator Ibrahim Babangida did not use the fighting corruption narrative as well as his predecessors but even he knew that this was by now a necessary story and he set up, amongst other things, the National Committee on Corruption and other Economic Crimes.

In a tweet Wednesday, the former military dictator stated «let's all comport ourselves with maturity and cool headedness and allow an investigative process devoid of emotions.»

A national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday called on former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a former military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.)

His comment comes after the former military dictator said calls for unity in the party can only work if there is a commitment to truthfulness, integrity and sincerity instead of a «monkey dey work, baboon dey chop approach».

Apart from the former military dictator, he said the former Vice-President could not be said to have visited any other person of recent.

However, it was gathered that the former vice president was indecisive on whether to align with the choice of the 11 governors in the party or that of some northern elements and a former military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.).

Etete had awarded himself the block while in office under the former military dictator Sani Abacha, via Malabu Oil and Gas, a company he secretly owned.