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Olusegun Obasanjo

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Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo ; born 5 March 1937) is a Nigerian retired military officer and statesman who served as Nigeria's head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007. Ideologically a Nigerian nationalist, he was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from 1998 to 2015, and since 2018.