10 sure facts about Nigeria’s heads of state and presidents

Niger, Katsina and Ogun States are the only states to have produced two leaders who had ruled the country.

2. The only president who had no executive power at all was Dr Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe.

3. Dr Goodluck Jonathan is the first incumbent President to be defeated in an election.

4. Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh founded the Central Bank of Nigeria in 1959. He was the only minister killed in the January 15 coup of 1966.

5. Major-General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi maintains the record as the tallest Head of State. He was the first Military Head of State.

6. Chief Ernest Shonekan is the only civilian Head of State without a political party to rule Nigeria. He was also the only unelected leader and the only one to resign from office.

7. During the civil war, Odumegwu Ojukwu slept every day with his boots on.

9. Generals Murtala Mohammed and Sani Abacha were both born and buried in Kano.

10. Umar Musa Yar’Adua was the first elected President to die while in office.