Olusegun Obasanjo is a former President of Nigeria who held the position from 1999 to 2007. He served as the Army general of Nigeria and as a military ruler remained the head of state from February 1976 to October 1979. He remains the first such military ruler In Africa who handed over the power for a democratic government. By the time the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha ended with his demise, Nigeria gained the infamous pariah status that was marked with oppressive regime of fifteen years. Olusegun Obasanjo also faced atrocities of the authoritative rule of General Sani Abacha that included his confinement in 1995. Obasanjo played an instrumental role in bringing back democracy in the country thus mending the tarnished image of the nation. He was democratically elected as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1999. He remained ‘Chairperson of the African Union’ from July 2004 to January 2006. He is the descendent of the Yoruba clan and a chieftain of the Ekerin Balogun of the Egba clan and that of the Balogun of the Owu Lineage. The UN inducted him as special envoy of Africa. Since then he oversees the democratic elections of countries across the African continent representing the ‘African Union and Ecowas’.