Talk:Olusegun Obasanjo

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removed "corruption" allegation section
Though there is some basis to these allegations, the section read more like an opinion than any factual reporting. I removed it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Quartermaster76 (talk • contribs) 21:45, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

article needs more critical views or criticism section
I just saw this documentary "Delta - Oil's Dirty Business" which paints Obasanjo in a rather bad light. Worse than Osama in some ways - you don't need to be a terrorist to have a hand indirectly in getting a lot of people killed when you're doing horrible policy in administrial position. Most of the documentary is about few oil companies like Shell but no doubt is left that the government was very heavily involved by pocketing the oil money and ordering executions. The Nigerian politicians interviewed are horrible liers - maybe that's their way of making anything they say hard to take seriously if took into court. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.112.80.249 (talk) 20:44, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

polygamy
Are there any sources to support polygamy? I changed the wife section on the infobox to Stella Obasanjo instead of reverting to the former text: Many(polygamist) - Stoph 20:07, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Pan-Nigerian Alphabet
Are the Pan-Nigerian alphabet characters (s&#x323; ẹ ọ ẹ) really necessary? --Ezeu 20:07, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Apparently not. So I'm removing them. --Ezeu 03:23, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

History of Nigeria
A lot of this article reads like the History of Nigeria, rather than detailing the major events and accomplishments of Obasanjo's public service. Particularly as Head of State, which holds little executive power, listing everything that happened sounds a bit strange. --Dhartung | Talk 07:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

The OBJ006 machine gun
According to a news wire, a new machine gun model was developed in Nigeria and was named "OBJ006" in honor of Obasanjo. Unfortunately all I have are news stories in French, so if somebody could find this information in English & update the wiki page, it would be nice. Hugo Dufort 20:49, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Name
I've seen several variants for his full name. Does anyone know what it actually is? Biruitorul 05:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

bias
Am I the only one who thinks this article is very uncritical of Obasanjo? Perhaps a section on 'critism' that can generally be found in most biographys could be added? Likewise, perhaps some information about some of the good things he did since 1999 could be given a full section?

uncritical
Has this article been sanitized? Obasanjo has faced serious criticism in connection with repeated mass killings of civilians, burning of villages and other major human rights abuses committed by Nigerian security forces in Benue, Bayelsa and Rivers states during his eight years of civilian rule. More than 30,000 people were killed in ethnic, political and religious violence durng his rule. Just a few of the communities destroyed by the military included Odi, Odioma and Zaki Biam. Detailed accounts have been published by Nigerian newspapers as well as international news organisations (BBC, Associated Press, Reuters) and anti-conflict organisations (Human Rights Watch and International Crisis Group). Reference to some of these were apparently included in a much earlier version of this article but have long since been removed. Also removed have been references to election irregularities in reports by European Union (EU) and National Democratic Institute (NDI). Even more critical election reports were prepared by Nigerian monitoring organisations including the Transition Monitoring Group. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.68.101.165 (talk) 03:03, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


 * So be bold and add this info to the article, citing the sources you listed. Just make sure to comply with WP:NPOV and WP:BLP. Picaroon (t) 03:10, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

olúʃɛ̙ɡũ ɒ̙básandʒɒ̙
The pronunciation looks correct or at least very close, but I didn't find a source for it. Geranda (talk) 19:53, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Arrangement
The sections in this article need to be shuffled/adjusted/added to eventually. Here's what I'm thinking (names tentative):


 * Early life and military career
 * Military head of state
 * Life from 1979 until 1999
 * Imprisonment
 * Civilian presidency
 * First term
 * Second term
 * Officials
 * Cabinet officials
 * Other appointed officials
 * Third Term Agenda
 * Life after the presidency
 * PDP BOT chairmanship
 * Personal life
 * Wives and children
 * Sex scandal (Gbenga's allegations)
 * References

See also and trivia information would be incorporated into other portions Picaroon (t) 04:48, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Taken out
''He was also recently accused of sleeping with his daughter-inlaw by his son Dr. Gbenga Obasanjo.


 * This claim is unsourced. Andres (talk) 15:02, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

The Olusegun Obasanjo that I grew up to Know
I do not have much time to write at the moment but I will surely come back.

Personally. I am very passionate about the name Olusegun Obasanjo. The greatest of the leaders Nigeria has ever produced. I have not met him physically but have realistically from my own point of view observed him to be be the greatest and the most conscientious. I will continue — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.138.181.8 (talk) 15:14, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Are you even a Nigerian??? How can you say that Obasanjo is Nigeria's Greatest leader??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nonso 007 (talk • contribs) 10:25, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Other officials?
Why is there a prominent box titled "Other officials" in this article? It's supposed to be about Obasanjo, not about his government - that should have its own article. If these people had important interactions with him, it can say so in the text without a big advertisement-like box in the middle of the article. &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 12:46, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Obasanjo was born 5 May 1937 not in the month of March
Please note that according to governmental, official, military and presidential records Obasanjo was born on 5 May 1937 not in the month of March. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Giantsofnigeria (talk • contribs) 08:04, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 18:06, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

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