Former Chief of General Staff, Oladipupo Diya, the second in command to the late dictator, Sani Abacha, disclosed on Wednesday that Abacha’s bad habit of not picking telephone calls saved him from being executed in 1998.

Diya made the disclosure in Ibadan at the launch of a book titled “City on the Hill,” a biography of Bishop Emmanuel Bolanle Gbonigi.

He said it was an irony that the bad habit of Abacha of not answering his telephone calls, which many people had complained about, actually saved him from the hangman’s noose.

He recalled that the prayers of Nigerians made Abacha to ignore several telephone calls made by a General Officer Commanding (GOC) who wanted to confirm the execution order.

After some junior officers had come with the execution order, Diya recounted, the GOC insisted that he would personally confirm it from Abacha before giving a “go ahead order.”

However, according to him, several telephone calls made to Aso Rock by the GOC for nearly six hours were not answered by either Abacha or his aides.

Then the GOC ordered that Diya and others to be executed should be returned to detention.

Speaking on the role played by Yoruba leaders during his ordeal at the hand of Abacha, Diya commended Gbonigi for being courageous to be the first person to tell Abacha not to execute him.

He said before the alleged coup plot, Abacha had hated hearing anything from Gbonigi as he regarded the clergyman as a “NADECO Bishop.”

http://www.independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=35623

See how this people are ordering and not ordering people execution as if they created those lives!! are they GOD?

d irony is that na abacha come die first!!

The ways of God is different from the ways of man.

Gbonigi
The one,the only

When he talks,y'all better listen

He's said his mind about the Tinubu ambition,only time will vindicate him;YET AGAIN

Shutup there!
Shameless weeping general!
So u r still making public appearance??
You are truly shameless! useless man!
a total disgrace to the yoruba race!
You are one of the reasons why i generally avoid having anything to do with Yorubas!

When i finally discovered men like bakare who is truly a warrior and is gradually returning my respect for yorubas, you now came back to haunt me with your cowardly face!

Olosi oma ale! oloriburuku! Anu mpama! Anu ofia!

Easy dude! u got so much venom there!!

If Abacha had been alive today, surely Obasanjo would have jailed him forever.

On the contrary if Abacha had been alive today OBJ would have been executed by now.
If Abacha had executed OBJ Nigeria would be much better off.

GenBuhari:

On the contrary if Abacha had been alive today OBJ would have executed by now.
If Abacha had executed OBJ Nigeria would be much better off.

Nna, do not talk like that.

On the contrary if Abacha had been alive today OBJ would have executed by now.
If Abacha had executed OBJ Nigeria would be much better off.

TRUE TALK

GenBuhari:

On the contrary if Abacha had been alive today OBJ would have been executed by now.
If Abacha had executed OBJ Nigeria would be much better off.

Seconded!

lol @ the weeping General!

GenBuhari:

On the contrary if Abacha had been alive today OBJ would have been executed by now.
If Abacha had executed OBJ Nigeria would be much better off.

what should I expect from an almajiri like you when you chose coupists/terrorists like IBB,buhari and Abacha as your heroes ? How is Abacha better than Obj ?

~Bluetooth:

what should I expect from an almajiri like you when you chose coupists/terrorists like IBB,buhari and Abacha as your heroes ? How is Abacha better than Obj ?

Despite international sanctions, the economic indicators during Abachas time was far better than Obj's rule. i am not an Abacha fan but Obj's poor government certainly made corruption thrive.

Diya was so lucky. Thank God for his life. I never wanted him to die.

Tales by moonlight. Are you guilty of the coup plot charge or not? That's all that matters.

THE ways of God is not that of men. It was Diya's time then.

greateros:

Shutup there!
Shameless weeping general!
So u r still making public appearance??
You are truly shameless! useless man!
a total disgrace to the yoruba race!
You are one of the reasons why i generally avoid having anything to do with Yorubas!

When i finally discovered men like bakare who is truly a warrior and is gradually returning my respect for yorubas, you now came back to haunt me with your cowardly face!

Olosi oma ale! oloriburuku! Anu mpama! Anu ofia!

That Diya should shut up, reason being that YOU HAVE DISCOVERED A TRUE WARRIOR OF YORUBA,Bakare right?
Your attitude and your choice of a warrior is all too interesting!

What is the contribution of Diya to the development of this great country?
We all seem to have forgotten the attrocities perpetrated by him so easily. I am sure posterity will catch up with all those that have contributed in putting our great country in this doldrum.

is abacha dead?[code][/code]

No, he's alive and kicking,

M M M:

is abacha dead?[code][/code]

You may as well ask if Shagari is still the president.

let's leave this man alone as probably it's time for him to contest for a political post.

Bad telephone habits! Abacha must be drunk when the GOC is calling him, though God's will will never change.

An inaccessible C-in-C?!! Talk abt a nation on autopilot.

Abacha was truly the one and only cretin General.

M M M:

is abacha dead?[code][/code]

No, he's alive and kicking, 

M M M:

is abacha dead?[code][/code]

Na you kill am?

Whats the difference between when abacha was alive and when he is dead?

Is it the killings or the high level of corruption eating into the marrows of Nigeria as a system.

I believe a day/a generation will come that will dish out justice to everyone guilty of running Nigeria a-underground including those retired warlords (awon ika eniyan, mchew)

P.oj:

No, he's alive and kicking, 

abacha EBE ano

Is Diya still alive ? He was found guilty of coup plotting and is supposed to be executed. Simple!

anishe:

What is the contribution of Diya to the development of this great country?
We all seem to have forgotten the attrocities perpetrated by him so easily. I am sure posterity will catch up with all those that have contributed in putting our great country in this doldrum.

How will he contribute? will he contribute from the prison, ? shey bi, they don't want him to contribute anything that was why he was thrown in jail, so where is the contribution coming from? look for something else to say,

Bastard Diya, he should have been executed. When you turn back on your kins for your own gain, whatever problem you find later is your personal cup of tea,

What an escape he had!