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Feb 17, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
How Abacha almost became a civilian president.
The late Nigerian military president and strongman, General Sanni Abacha is remembered as a military dictator who unleashed terror on political dissenters. He died on Sunday, June 8, 1998.
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However, if he had lived a few months more, do you know he would have become a civilian president? Military leaders transforming into civilian presidents were quite common during the period. People like Jerry Rawlings of Ghana, Muhammad Gaddafi of Libya, Museveni of Uganda,
