Since the end of Nigerian civil war in 1970, a select team of now retired military generals, namely, General Ibrahim Babangida, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, General T.Y. Danjuma, General Aliyu Gusau, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, among few others, have been influential in deciding who becomes the country’s president.
But ahead of 2023, their camp has evidently been split between Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, and Atiku Abubakar, his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, what represents a major development in the polity.
