Abdulsalami Abubakar

Abubakar was born in Minna on 13 June 1942, joined the army and rose through its ranks to become Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff from 1997 to 1998 under Abacha. ¹

After Abacha's sudden death, Abubakar was sworn in as military head of state on 9 June 1998, as the English article states in its lead when it says he succeeded Abacha upon the latter's death. ¹ Within a year Nigeria under him adopted a modified version of the 1979 constitution and held multiparty elections, and he handed power to the elected president Olusegun Obasanjo on 29 May 1999, ending sixteen years of continuous military rule. ¹

Abubakar remains a respected elder statesman and chairs Nigeria's National Peace Committee. ¹ As to his religion, the sources used here state it nowhere in text: the English article says nothing about it, the Arabic stub's infobox religion field is blank though the article files him under "Nigerian Muslims", and Wikidata gives a single value, Islam; no source names a school for him, so his faith value is left unclassified (unknown) in his record. ^{1 2 3}

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