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“There is hardly any need for me to recount here the steps we are taking in Nigeria to restore the government of our country to a democratically elected body by 1979.”
Source: Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, toast at the state dinner given by President Carter, State Dining Room, The White House, Washington, 11 October 1977; Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977, via The American Presidency Project
Context Nigeria's military head of state, on a state visit to Washington two years before the handover, binding himself in public and by date to giving power back to elected civilians.
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