What you don't know about Olusegun Obasanjo

1) His full name is Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo
2) In 1987, his second wife/ex-wife, Lynda was fatally shot by armed men after falling to move quickly when she was ordered to move out of her car.
3) Dare Obasanjo one of the sons of Obasanjo is a Principal Program Manager for Microsoft
4) Obasanjo did not participate in the military coup of July 1975, led by Murtala Mohammed, he supported it and was named Murtala’s deputy in the new government.
5) He was born in Ogun State in the early period of March 1937, and grew up in Owu (Abeokuta). His first name, Olusegun means “The Lord is Victorious”
6) The former president is a writer of books. The book, which is titled Peace Story for Children, is a 14-page booklet illustrated with various cartoons, and is aimed at “sowing the seeds of peace in the minds of children”.
7) Gen. Obasanjo had four spouses which goes in this order Esther Oluremi (Ex-wife), |Lynda (Ex-wife, deceased), Stella Abebe (deceased) and Mojisola Adekunle (deceased).
8) His military ambition came to fulfillment in 1958 at the age of 21, when he enlisted in the Nigerian Army. There he attended the 6-month Short Service commission training at Mons Officer Cadet School in Alderhshot in England, and was thereafter commissioned as an officer in the Nigerian Army.
9) His regime came the Green Revolution, a period where seeds and fertilisers where distributed to farmers to increase nationwide productivity in farming
10) During the dictatorship of Sani Abacha (1993–1998), Obasanjo spoke out against the human rights abuses of the regime, and was imprisoned for alleged participation in an aborted coup based on testimony obtained via torture. He was released only after Abacha’s sudden death on 8 June 1998. While in prison, Obasanjo became a born-again Christian.