Muhammadu Buhari was born on December 17,
1942, in Daura, Katsina State. He went to
Primary School in Daura and Mai’adua from
1948 – 1952, before proceeding to Katsina
middle School in 1953. He attended the Katsina
Provincial Secondary School (now Government
College Katsina) from 1956 – 1961.
On graduation from Secondary School in 1961,
Buhari went to the Nigerian Military Training
School, Kaduna in 1963.

In October of the same year, he was sent to
the officers’ Cadet School in Aldershot in the
United Kingdom and was thereafter
commissioned Second Lieutenant in 1963 and
posted to the 2nd Infantry Battalion,
Abeokuta as Platoon Commander in 1963.
It was at the Abeokuta Garrison that the real
traits of a great soldier were identified in the
young man. From 1963 – 1964 he was sent for
further training on the Platoon Commanders’
Course at the Nigerian Military College,
Kaduna.

In 1965, he went for the Mechanical Transport
Officers’ Course at the Army Mechanical
Transport School in Borden, England. He went
to the Defence Services’ Staff College,
Wellington, India in 1973 and to the United
States Army War College from June 1979 to
June 1980.
In August 1975, after General Murtala
Mohammed took power, he appointed Buhari as
Governor of the North-Eastern State, to
oversee social, economic and political
improvements in the state.

In March 1976, the then Head of State,
General Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Buhari as
the Federal Commissioner (position now called
Minister) for Petroleum and Natural
Resources. When the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation was created in 1976,
Buhari was also appointed as its Chairman, a
position he held until 1978.

In 1983, Major-General Buhari and Major-
General Tunde Idiagbon were selected to lead
the country by middle and high-ranking
military officers after a successful military
coup d'etat that overthrew civilian President
Shehu Shagari on December.

In 1985, Buhari was himself overthrown in a
coup led by General Ibrahim Babangida on
August 27th, and other members of the ruling
Supreme Military Council (SMC) ostensibly,
because he insisted on investigating
allegations of fraudulent award of contracts
in the Ministry of Defence.

Between 1995 and 1998, Buhari served as the
Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), a
body created by the government of General
Sani Abacha, and funded from the revenue
generated by the increase in price of
petroleum products, to pursue developmental
projects around the country.

Buhari contested the Presidential election as
the candidate of the All Nigeria People's Party
in 2003 and lost to former president Olusegun
Obasanjo.

Again, he contested under the ANPP banner in
2007 against Late Umaru Musa Yar’adua of the
PDP and lost.

In March 2010, Buhari left the ANPP for the
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), a
party that he had helped to found.
Buhari was the CPC Presidential candidate in
the 16 April 2011 general election, in which he
lost to incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan
of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).
He is currently the presidential candidate of
the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the 2015
presidential elction.
- News24

http://www.news24.com.ng/Elections/Voting101/Muhammadu-Buhari-A-profile-20150126




Goodluck Jonathan: A profile
2015-01-26 14:23
Born on November 20, 1957 in Otuoke, Bayelsa
State, Goodluck Jonathan began his primary
education at St Stephen’s Primary School (now
State School, Otuoke) and later moved to St
Michael’s Primary School, Oloibiri, where he
completed his elementary education in 1969, at
the age of 12.

He proceeded to Mater Dei High School,
Imiringi for his secondary education and
passed out in 1975 with distinctions.
Before securing admission into the university,
Jonathan worked as a Preventive Officer with
the Department of Customs and Excise for two
years
In 1977, he secured admission into the
Department of Zoology, University of Port
Harcourt. He was one of the pioneer students
of the university.

He graduated with a B.Sc. in Zoology in 1981,
an M.S. in Hydrobiology and Fisheries Biology
(1985), and a Ph.D. in Zoology (1995).

While pursuing his doctorate, he taught at
Rivers State College of Education from 1983
until 1993. He then served as an assistant
director at the Oil Mineral Producing Areas
Development Commission, a now defunct
government agency, from 1993 until 1998.
Jonathan Goodluck’s political career began
when he became involved with the nascent
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the late
1990s. He was elected deputy governor of
Bayelsa state in 1999 under the party’s
banner. He served in the position until year
2005, when he was elevated to the
governorship after the incumbent, Diepreye
Alamieyeseigha, was charged with corruption
and was impeached.

In 2007 he was selected as the vice
presidential running mate of the PDP’s
presidential candidate, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
He and Yar’Adua were elected in April and
inaugurated in May 2007.

He was sworn in as the President on 6 May
2010 following the death of Yar’ Adua on May
5.
He contested the 2011 presidential election
and defeated General Muhammadu Buhari of
the Congress for Progressive Chang (CPC) and
Nuhu Ribadu of the Action Congress of Nigeria
(ACN) with 59% of the votes.

His dedication to service earned him the Best
Performing Deputy Governor Award, as well as
the Honourary Award for Democracy and Good
Governance.

Given his contributions to Environmental
Management, he was decorated with the
prestigious Honourary Fellowship of the
Nigerian Environmental Society.

A member of various professional associations
around the world, he remains a Fellow of the
Fisheries Society of Nigeria, FISON, Fellow of
the Public Administrators of Nigeria, Fellow,
International Association of Impact
Assessment, IAIA, and Fellow, Institute of
Corporate Affairs Management. He is also a
member, Science Teachers Association of
Nigeria, and Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary
International.
- News24

http://www.news24.com.ng/Elections/Voting101/Goodluck-Jonathan-A-profile-20150126

May God bless Nigeria

Bless our incoming president, General Muhammadu Buhari

Forgive the TANists for they know not what they are doing

And give to the outgoing president what you know he deserves.