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Nigeria - The Regime of Murtala Muhammad (500 words) |
 | Murtala Muhammad removed top federal and state officials to break links with the Gowon regime and to restore public confidence in the federal government. |
| Murtala Muhammad also began the demobilization of 100,000 troops from the swollen ranks of the armed forces. |
| Murtala Muhammad imposed the authority of the federal government in areas formerly reserved for the states, restricting the latitude exercised by state governments and their governors in determining and executing policy. |
| Amana Online (1534 words) |
| Murtala worked with the speed of a jet and the strength of a bulldozer to give the nation a sense of direction and became a national hero; a character trait which began to build during the Civil War. |
| Murtala's transition to civil rule programme was executed with a great sense of vigour and determination with Nigerians of integrity and belief in the rule of law and good governance, as the principal actors. |
| Murtala's successor, General Olusegun Obasanjo kept faith with the transition programme culminating in the handover of power to a civilian president, Alhaji Shehu Shagari on October 1, 1979.This is one feat for which one must doff his hat for Obasanjo although he is allegedly on the self-destructive path of shattering that record. |
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