Pretty Women: Nigerian First Lady Fati Lami Abubakar (R), the wife of Abdusalam Abubakar, the Nigeria’s military head of state from 1998 to 1999, is pictured at the Africa First Ladies Peace Mission Forum opening in Abuja on May 10, 1999, flanked by other African First Ladies, Nana Konada Agyemman-Rawlings (Ghana), Kuvamba Nujoma (Namibia), and Stella Obasanjo, the wife of the country’s incoming president, Olusegun Obasanjo.
General Abdulsalami Abubakar’s wife, Fati Lami, stated that maintaining peace and stability was “too important” to be left up to government alone.