Ibrahim Babangida

Babangida was born in Minna on 17 August 1941 and received early Islamic education before attending primary school from 1950 to 1956, as the English article records. ¹ He joined the army in 1962, fought in the Nigerian Civil War and rose through the ranks to become Chief of Army Staff (1984–1985). ¹

On 27 August 1985 Babangida led the coup that overthrew Buhari and became Nigeria's military president. ¹ In 1986 Nigeria under him joined the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, a move welcomed in the Muslim-majority north and criticised by non-Muslims as an Islamisation agenda for a secular country; his deputy Ebitu Ukiwe, who opposed the decision, was removed. ¹

Babangida's regime supervised the election of 12 June 1993, which Moshood Abiola appeared to have won, and then annulled its results; the ensuing Third Republic crisis ended with Babangida stepping aside on 26 August 1993, handing power to an interim government under Ernest Shonekan. ¹

The sources used here attribute no personal religious affiliation to Babangida: the English article records only his early Islamic education (formation, not affiliation), the Arabic stub's infobox religion field is blank, the Arabic and Urdu articles file 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). ^{1 2 3 4}

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