Vol 50 No 24 |
- COMMONWEALTH
It was in Anyaoku's own country that the Declaration was first seriously tested in 1997 when General Sani Abacha's regime executed Niger Delta activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others...
Others are Fayemi; Rauf Aregbesola Osun State AC governorship candidate; Auwalu Yadudu former Special Advisor to the late President Sani Abacha; and Garba Mohammed Deputy Governor of Bauchi State...
Fifteen years later he was a local councillor and member of the National Constitutional Conference convened by military dictator Sani Abacha in 1994...
Then the government named Ibrahim Gambari who has been both Foreign Minister under General Sani Abacha's military regime and a United Nations political advisor to head a Niger Delta initiative...
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...
Sani Abacha who put Shehu Yar'Adua in gaol where he died of poisoning...
Foreign Minister Ojo Madueke a political chameleon who has worked with General Sani Abacha and Obasanjo has no enemies within or outside the government but has yet to deal with any serious diplomatic crises...
He served as Nigeria's UN envoy in the 1990s and was an apologist for the military regimes of General Sani Abacha and Major General Abdulsalami Abubakar...
Although Shell was excoriated by activist groups as a great defender of General Sani Abacha it seems the respect was not reciprocated...
