Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo GCFR is a Nigerian politician, statesman, agriculturalist, and former army general who served as Nigeria's Military Head of State from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007. Olusegun Obasanjo was Nigeria's military head of state (1976-9) and President (1999-2007). His career is made the focus for a history of Nigeria's fir... The Conclusion reflects on Nigeria’s foreignpolicy under Obasanjo and offers normative and policy recommendations for the future. This book is intended as a wake-up call to Africa, Nigeria, its leaders and its citizens on the use of power. Foreignpolicy analysis (FPA) has traditionally focused its attention in consolidated political regimes, either democratic or autocratic, thus leaving the study of transitional regimes almost exclusively to comparative politics. The article has further explicitly exposed the ineptitude and inefficiency of government in both domesticand international affairs.President Goodluck Jonathan seems to be borrowing copiously from the book shelve ofObasanjo’s political library. The fundamental point is that the effect of political events on policy is contextual. The current configuration of power has placed strategic foreign-policydecisions in the hands of a calculating leader who is largely insulated from domestic pressure.