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Ibrahim Babangida

1941 - Today

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Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (born 17 August 1941) is a Nigerian statesman and military dictator who ruled as military president of Nigeria from 1985 when he orchestrated a coup d'état against his military and political arch-rival Muhammadu Buhari, until his resignation in 1993 as a result of the post-12 June 1993 election which he illegally nullified. He rose through the ranks of the Nigerian Army fighting in the Nigerian Civil War and at various times being involved in almost all the military coups in Nigeria, before advancing to the full-rank of a General and ultimately as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces; and as an unelected President and military dictator from 1985 to 1993, ruling for an uninterrupted period of eight years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibrahim Babangida has received more than 1,749,993 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Ibrahim Babangida is the 12,367th most popular politician (down from 12,293rd in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Nigeria and the 8th most popular Nigerian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ibrahim Babangida ranks 12,367 out of 19,576. Before him are Dmytro Kuleba, Viktor Grishin, Dom Mintoff, Ene Ergma, Andrea Vendramin, and Kim Yong-chun. After him are Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, Vlatko Pavletić, Giulio Cesare Polerio, Hovik Abrahamyan, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Ibrahim Babangida ranks 299. Before him are Peter Brötzmann, Holger Meins, John Bennett Perry, Joan Wallach Scott, Alexander Ragulin, and Michael Moriarty. After him are Patience Dabany, Josep Maria Mauri, Gorden Kaye, Anatoli Firsov, Hipólito Mejía, and John Williams.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Ibrahim Babangida ranks 26 out of 309. Before him are Abdulsalami Abubakar (1942), Amos Tutuola (1920), Victor Osimhen (1998), Nwankwo Kanu (1976), Nana Asmaʼu (1793), and Tijani Babangida (1973). After him are Shehu Shagari (1925), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977), Yakubu Gowon (1934), Tony Allen (1940), C. Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933), and Murtala Mohammed (1938).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nigeria

Among politicians born in Nigeria, Ibrahim Babangida ranks 8. Before him are Bola Tinubu (1952), Olusegun Obasanjo (1937), Sani Abacha (1943), Goodluck Jonathan (1957), Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951), and Abdulsalami Abubakar (1942). After him are Shehu Shagari (1925), Yakubu Gowon (1934), C. Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933), Murtala Mohammed (1938), Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904), and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912).

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