What if I tell you that General SANINEGERIA MOHAMMED ABACHA, Nigeria’s seventh military head of state and the most popular Kanuri person in the world was regarded as the most patient man on earth? My Mum, the Ogidi Abiyamo herself never forgets her airport encounter with him, she was thoroughly stupefied at his height. It was fifteen years ago. A man of diminutive stature (5ft, 6inches). A man of fire, iron and steel, the General lorded absolute power and unbridled authority over 120 million souls.
Not even Generals dare cross his path. Those who did, knelt and wept before him while he offered them tissue paper to wipe their salty tears. Not even a plea from the Pope could melt his heart. Mandela begged him to no avail. No one messed with Abacha. He was gentle. Listening. Cunning. Daring. Attentive. Dangerous. Brave. Brutal. When an American ambassador was irritating the late maximum tyrant, he almost paid with his life. But who was SANI ABACHA, Nigeria’s most enigmatic ruler, and the first head of state to die in office without violence (a man of many firsts as you will soon see)? Why and how he almost blew General Diya out of existence? Why his last son was shot in 2011? His links with America’s most secretive Christian group, Boko Haram and Imam Abubakar Shekau, its leader and Nigeria’s most wanted man? And many more…
Abacha was the first officer in the military to rise from the rank of a 2nd lieutenant to that of a General without skipping any rank. With shiny black shoes, Abacha strides past troops at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja in 1996. Known for his beautiful handwriting, here is Abacha’s signature. General Sani Abacha being decorated by the former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. Abacha was already a General by the age of 40 and he became the Head of State before turning 50, one of the youngest in the history of the country. The Taciturn Kanuri General & Nigeria’s Most Enigmatic Ruler.
Known to many as an incorrigible kleptomaniac who will stop at nothing to succeed himself in power, Abiyamo invites you on a spellbinding journey into the rise, rise and fall of the dictator and lawn tennis lover whom IBB called the Khalifa. When IBB was leaving the ‘throne’, he retired all the service chiefs with the exception of this man: Sani Abacha (in 1989, IBB cut the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, AFRC from 28 to 19 members, Abacha was one of the survivors and IBB would later make him the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff the same year). Adjust your chair, stretch your legs and let’s learn more about the gripping story of a soldier of audacious strategies who proudly bore his Kanuri tribal marks beneath the darkest of goggles.
Known to many as an incorrigible kleptomaniac who will stop at nothing to succeed himself in power, Abiyamo invites you on a spellbinding journey into the rise, rise and fall of the dictator and lawn tennis lover whom IBB called the Khalifa. When IBB was leaving the ‘throne’, he retired all the service chiefs with the exception of this man: Sani Abacha (in 1989, IBB cut the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, AFRC from 28 to 19 members, Abacha was one of the survivors and IBB would later make him the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff the same year). Adjust your chair, stretch your legs and let’s learn more about the gripping story of a soldier of audacious strategies who proudly bore his Kanuri tribal marks beneath the darkest of goggles.
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