olusegun_obasanjo | inofficewhilevicepresident | atiku_abubakar <sep> chief olusegun matthew okikiola ogunboye aremu obasanjo,  , ( (listen) ; yoruba: olúṣẹ́gun ọbásanjọ́ [olúʃɛ́ɡũ ɔbásanɟɔ];(listen) born 5 march 1937) is a nigerian retired military officer and  statesman who served as nigeria's head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007 ideologically a nigerian nationalist, he was a member of the peoples democratic party (pdp) from 1998 to 2015, and since 2018 born in the village of ibogun-olaogun to a farming family of the owu branch of the yoruba, obasanjo was educated largely in abeokuta, ogun state joining the nigerian army, where he specialised in engineering, he spent time assigned in the congo, britain, and india, rising to the rank of major in the latter part of the 1960s, he played a senior role in combating biafran separatists during the nigerian civil war, accepting their surrender in 1970 
olusegun obasanjo was in office whilst atiku abubakar was vice president.no information