Mohammed Sani Abdullahi

Mohammed Sani Abdullahi's profile records him as born on 1970-01-01, male, with qualifications listed as FSLC, SSC, and N.C.E.; it also lists Aishatu Salihu as his running mate, Kano as birthplace, and Mons Officer Cadet School as education.

The same source text includes an extended historical profile of Sani Abacha (20 September 1943 to 8 June 1998), describing him as a Nigerian military dictator and statesman who ruled as military head of state from 1993 after a palace coup until his death in 1998; it states this seizure was the last successful coup in Nigerian military history and describes widespread human-rights abuses, including political assassinations and summary executions, plus international isolation around the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa.

It further states that Abacha was regarded as one of the twentieth century's most corrupt dictators, with allegations of US$2-5 billion embezzled and hidden in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the United Kingdom, and the United States; that his death preceded the Nigerian Fourth Republic and succession by General Abdulsalami Abubakar; and that he was a Muslim born in Kano to a Kanuri family originally from present-day Borno State, trained at the Nigerian Military Training College in Kaduna and Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot, commissioned in 1963, involved in coups from July 1966, fought in the Nigerian Civil War in 1969, became commander of 2nd Infantry Division in 1975, and general officer commanding of 2nd Mechanised Division and Supreme Military Council member in 1983.