Perhaps the main difference today is that the appalling record of the last military regime under the late General Sani Abacha (who was poisoned in 1998) seems to have diminished public support for such intervention...
Tinubu's business interests include links to Lebanese multimillionaires Gilbert and George Chagoury who have worked with most of the political and military class in Nigeria including former Police Inspector General Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu and Sani Abacha...