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Personality and Nigeria's Foreign Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Obasanjo's Foreign Policy as Military Head of State and Civilian President
This paper explores personality and Nigeria’s foreign policy: a comparism of Obasanjo’s foreign policy as military Head of State and civilian President. Utilizing Hermann’s Leadership Trait Analysis (LTA) model, the paper tested the influence of Obasanjo’s personality on Nigeria’s foreign policy during his two different regimes: military (1977-1979) and democracy (1999-2007). The findings shows that Obasanjo’s personality has approximate similarity with Hermann’s personality typology of high level of nationalism, strong belief in one’s ability to control events, strong need for power and low l…
