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After the presidential election on 12 June 1993, Moshood Abiola of the SDP won as president. [18] The military president of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Babangida, annulled the elections, citing widespread irregularities, but no evidence of fraud was offered to the Nigerian public. [19]
The 1993 Nigerian coup d'état was a bloodless military coup which took place in Nigeria on 17 November 1993 [1] when the Armed Forces, headed by Defence Minister General Sani Abacha, forced Interim President Chief Ernest Shonekan to resign. [2]
[3] [1] [5] There was a perception that both candidates had close ties to the military, and therefore their election would not disfavor the military even in a civilian government. [1] [2] In the Second Republic, both presidential candidates were involved with the ruling party – the National Party of Nigeria. [12]
The 1996 Nigerien coup d'état was a military coup d'état which occurred on 27 January 1996 in Niamey, Niger.It ousted Niger's first democratically elected president, Mahamane Ousmane after nearly three years in power and installed General Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara as head of state.
He was the honorary supreme military commander of the Oyo Empire [a] and an aristocrat of the Egba clan. [6] [7] Abiola ran for the presidency in 1993, for which the election results were annulled by then military president Ibrahim Babangida. [8] He would later die in detention after making an attempt to assert himself as the elected president. [9]
Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida GCFR GCB (born 17 August 1941) is a Nigerian statesman and military dictator who ruled as military president of Nigeria from 1985 when he orchestrated a coup d'état against his military and political arch-rival Muhammadu Buhari, until his resignation in 1993 [1] as a result of the crisis of the Third Republic.
The Nigerian Armed Forces (NAF) are the military forces of Nigeria. The forces consist of three service branches: the Nigerian Army , Nigerian Navy , and Nigerian Air Force . The President of Nigeria functions as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, exercising his constitutional authority through the Ministry of Defence, which is ...
Tensions between the civilian and military aspects of Nigerian government were escalating. One major incident was when General Muhammadu Buhari, the commanding officer of the 3rd Division, cut off fuel and food supplies into neighboring Chad, an action caused by border disputes between Nigeria and Chad that was opposed by President Shehu Shagari.