Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday said picking a running mate in the 1999 presidential election was a mistake. He made the comment while speaking in Abeokuta at a leadership and entrepreneurship mentoring session with selected school students. Obasanjo, who won the 1999 and 2003 presidential elections, ran alongside Atiku Abubakar.
Following the mutiny and failed coup attempt in Niamey on 28 and 29 August, a Nigerien army officer said on state television that Chadian officers and associates of former president Mohamed Bazoum had supported the mutineers. He also alleged that reinforcements were expected to transit through Chad, deepening tensions between Niamey and N’Djamena. The accusations come as relations between Niger’s junta leader General Abdourahamane Tiani and Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby have been strained by armed group activity and shifting ...
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