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The Caliphate struck back with the
pogroms of May 1966, which led to the
overthrow of the Ironsi military regime
in the Caliphate counter-coup of July
1966. The Caliphate counter offensive
continued with the pogroms that sought
to drive from the North those fellow
Nigerians that Sir Abubakar Tafawa
Balewa had, in 1948, called “invaders”
of the North. [see q15 below] The
crisis of the pogroms led to Biafra’s
secession in 1967; and that, in turn,
triggered the Civil War to forcibly
drag Biafrans back into the Caliphate
colony that Nigeria had become.
The Caliphate’s military conquest of
Nigeria was completed in January 1970
with the defeat of Biafra.
Thereafter a period of unalloyed
Caliphate colonialism began.
The Caliphate ruled through civilian
and military governments that
were led sometimes by its own
members and sometimes by trusted
non- Caliphate agents.

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By 1999, the Caliphate had evolved
a peculiar federal system that
they entrenched through the 1999
constitution, a system that allows them
to dominate and exploit other Nigerians
behind a façade of democracy. But while
they were evolving that constitution
(1966-1999), they resorted to all
manner of makeshift measures to hang
on to power, sometimes ruling through
their members, and at other times
through “willing tools” from the
Northern minorities or loyal agents
from the “conquered” South.
[see the sequence of governments
in the adjacent table]

Nigeria: Sequence of Governments, 1957-2013, with
the Caliphate/non-Caliphate character of each
September1957 to
16 January 1966

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa,
Prime Minister

16 January 1966 to
29 July 1966

Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi,
Head of the Federal Military Government

1 August 1966 to
29 July 1975

Yakubu Gowon,
Head of the Federal Military Government

29 July 1975 to 13
February 1976

Murtala Mohammed,
Head of the Federal Military Government

13 February 1976
to 1 October 1979

Olusegun Obasanjo,
(a.k.a. obj), Head of the Federal Military Government

1 October 1979 to
31 December 1983

Shehu Shagari,
President

31 December 1983
to 27 August 1985

Muhammadu Buhari,
Chairman of the Supreme Military Council

27 August 1985 to
26 August 1993

Ibrahim Babangida,
(a.k.a. ibb) President of the Armed Forces
Ruling Council

26 August 1993 to
17 November 1993

Ernest Shonekan,
Interim Head of State

17 November 1993
to 8 June 1998

Sani Abacha,
Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council

8 June 1998 to 29
May 1999

Abdulsalami Abubakar,
Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council

29 May 1999 to 29
May 2007

Olusegun Obasanjo,
President

29 May 2007 to 5
May 2010

Umaru Musa Yar’Adua,
President

9 February 2010 to
Present

Goodluck Jonathan,
Acting President till 6 May 2011, and President since then.