“The fact that since 1999, there has not been a coup or an attempted coup in Nigeria speaks to the effectiveness of the measures taken to put an end to the destabilizing influence of coups on the political life and dispensation of Nigeria.
Before 1999, and since independence, the longest that a democratic dispensation had lasted was six years –from 1960 to 1966.
See Below The List Of Nigeria President From Independent Till Date;
Sir A Tafawa Balewa
Gen Aguiyi Irons
General Yakubu Gowon
Gen Murtala Mohammed
General Olusegun Obasanjo
Alhaaji Shehu Shagari
Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari
Gen. Ibrahim Babangida
Chief Ernest Shonekan,
Late General Sanni Abacha,
General Abdulsalam Abubakar,
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,
Late Umaru Musa Yar’adua,
Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, and
Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, who is the current present president till date.
