predecessor successor birth_place office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
salihu ibrahim abdullahi sarki mukhtar mohammed lawal rafindadi chris alli abdullahi sarki mukhtar kayode are nso dissolved gusau , zamfara state , nigeria minister advisor national security advisor director general of the national security of organization defence chief of army staff national security 18 may 1943 5 march 2010 september 1985 march 2014 august 1993 29 may 1999 8 aliyu mohammed gusau
 september 1993 1 june 2006 september 2010 july 1986 aliyu mohammed gusau
aliyu mohammed gusau

lieutenant general -lrb- retired -rrb- aliyu mohammed gusau is a former nigerian army officer who was appointed national security advisor by president goodluck jonathan on 8 march 2010 .
he held the same position during most of the olusegun obasanjo presidency .
before that he was in military intelligence , and was briefly army chief .
he resigned in september 2010 , handing over to his deputy kayode are .
on 5 march 2014 , president goodluck johnathan appointed aliyu gusau as defence minister .
aliyu gusau was erroneously reported to have resigned his position as minister of defence following an alleged altercation with the chief of defence staff and failure of the three military chiefs to attend meetings with him .
