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Poll: I now believe Abacha may have been honest and Obasanjo / IBB deliberately discredited Abacha's name, because:

His economic performance was on of best in Nigeria's history: 9% (1 vote)
PDP cronies - Abubakar Bagunu & Buba Marwa seem to be the people to link Abacha to the looted funds in Swiss banks appear to have been bribed by Obasanjo Govt to accuse Abacha: 9% (1 vote)
No witnesses appear to to give evidence against Abacha when Swiss lawyers came to Nigeria to collect evidence: 0% (0 votes)
Abdulsalami Abubakar /IBB/Obasanjo instigating a blind probe od=f Abacha and "discovering" billions of dollars in foreign accounts within days of Abacha's death prove they were out to discredit Abacha: 0% (0 votes)
None of above - I believe Abacha was a major looter: 81% (9 votes)
This poll has ended

Poll: Having read this thread, I believe that Abacha

May not have looted, his enemies bribed witnesses such as Abubakar Bagudu, claim that funds in foreign accounts belonged to Abacha: 9% (1 vote)
I believe Abacha was a big looter and I haveevidence other than the accusation that money "recovered" from Foreign banks belonged to him: 54% (6 votes)
I am not sure anymore: 36% (4 votes)
This poll has ended

How Sani Abacha Died…AL Mustapha. NOT BY APPLE / How Abacha Was Poisoned - Another Version / How Abacha Was Killed (2) (3) (4)

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Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by aletheia(m): 10:39am On Feb 08, 2012
GenBuhari:

Look at it this way:

Obasanjo a genocidal dishonest and biggest looter in African history tells us Abacha looted Nigeria without providing evidence.

Buhari a honest an insidiously dishonestman, who is fiercly hypocriticallyanti-corruption tells us Abach never stole.
^Emended to better reflect the reality.

GenBuhari:

Who should we believe?
^All 3 are thieves.
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 12:50pm On Feb 08, 2012
Or look at it another way.

If Abacha was corrupt would he have chosen Buhari to run his Petroleum Trust Fund?

Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by jaybee3(m): 1:08pm On Feb 08, 2012
GenBuhari:

Or look at it another way.

If Abacha was corrupt would he have chosen Buhari to run his Petroleum Trust Fund?
Going by your recent hypothesis, was OBJ corrupt for hiring Ribadu/Nweala/Dora?
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 2:30pm On Feb 08, 2012
^
The main difference is that Abacha gave Buhari complete control of a huge multi-billion dollar budget to be  spent for awarding massive contracts, with almost no interference.

Furthermore, Obasanjo never appointed Buhari so you are not comparing like with like.
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by jaybee3(m): 2:44pm On Feb 08, 2012
GenBuhari:

^
The main difference is that Abacha gave Buhari complete control of a huge multi-billion dollar budget to be spent for awarding massive contracts, with almost no interference.

Furthermore, Obasanjo (hugely corrupt) was not Abacha so you are comparing like with like.
Are you typing with your Anus cos I'm failing to understand your one sidedness reasoning.

So Ribadu/Iweala/Dora didn't handle multi-billion dollar budgets?

Are you having a laugh or just plain silly?


What's the difference between obasanjo and abacha other their tribal/religious differences?
They are both military officers
They are both suckers
They are both worthless and should rot in hell

You ought to be shot. Stop abusing your freedom of speech abeg
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 6:01pm On Feb 08, 2012
@jay bee,
You need to calm down.

Your insulting post is totally uncalled for.

Resorting to insults indicates that you have lost the debate.
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Sagamite(m): 2:49pm On Feb 09, 2012
GenBuhari:

Or look at it another way.

If Abacha was corrupt would he have chosen Buhari to run his Petroleum Trust Fund?

To a cretin, proof of lack of corruption is when you appoint someone to head up a committee to spend money.

A bloody mental patient!
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 3:09pm On Feb 09, 2012
Sagamite,

Are you a cretin?

You seem to know so much about how a cretin's mind works  grin

Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Sagamite(m): 3:13pm On Feb 09, 2012
GenBuhari:

Sagamite,

Are you a cretin?

You seem to know so much about how a cretin's mind works grin

I am a psychiatrist. I know a cretinous mental patient that creates points from his arse.
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 3:33pm On Feb 09, 2012
psychiatrist for cretins? smiley
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 1:12am On Feb 10, 2012
Considering that since leaving office, Buhari had rejected all job offers from corrupt governments, it says a lot about Abacha's government that Buhari accepted the role of PTF chairman under Abacha.
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 7:28am On Feb 10, 2012
Any one read about the man who confessed that he was bribed to get Al-Mustapha convicted.

The same man also said that he was also offered money to try and convict Abacha's son of embezzlement.

interesting.

Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 6:38pm On Feb 10, 2012
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Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 2:35am On Feb 11, 2012
When you think about it, the death of Abacha was a covert coup by Ibrahim B. Babangida / Abdulsalami Abubakar

Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 10:58am On Feb 11, 2012
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Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 12:31pm On Feb 11, 2012
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 12:32pm On Feb 11, 2012

Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 10:34pm On Feb 11, 2012
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 11:38pm On Feb 11, 2012
^ very funny angry
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 12:14am On Feb 12, 2012
[size=18pt]13 November 1995
World community decides how to impose economic sanctions on Nigeria (video clip)[/size]

http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1995/11/13/BSP131195010/?s=nigeria&st=0&pn=29&sortBy=date


NIGERIA: ECONOMY/SANCTIONS: With the world discussing what action to take against Nigeria following the hanging of 9 human rights activists, C4N looks at the economic state of the country and the effects of any likely sanctions.

Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 1:56am On Feb 12, 2012
[size=18pt]If sporting performance is an indication of good governance,
well guess what?[/size]

Nigeria won two Olympic gold medals (only olympic golds in our history) in 1996 during Abacha reign.

Coincidence?

Well, we also won:

Africa Nations cup in 1994

11 commonwealth gold medals in 1994 (our biggest GOLD medal haul)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_at_the_Olympics


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_at_the_Commonwealth_Games


Not surprisingly Obasanjo's government performed badly given he enjoyed record levels of revenue from high oil prices  angry

Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 10:06am On Feb 12, 2012
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Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 8:11pm On Feb 12, 2012
[size=18pt]19th  January 1996 - ITN News
PRESIDENTIAL PLANE CRASHES, IBRAHIM ABACHA, SON OF NIGERIAN RULER AND 13 OTHERS KILLED - GENERAL ABACHA ORDERS ENQUIRY[/size]

Nigeria has formally set up a board of inquiry into the crash of a Presidential plane in January which killed the son of military ruler General Sani Abacha.

An official statement in the capital Abuja said the 11-member all-military board was headed by Air Vice-Marshall J.Y. Kontagora, commander of the air force training wing and a member of the Provisional Ruling Council.

National Security Adviser Ismaila Gwarzo, who inaugurated the board of inquiry, said it had two weeks to complete its assignment.

The British-made Hawker Siddeley 125 had been travelling from Lagos to Abacha's northern hometown Kano when it crashed, killing 28-year-old Ibrahim Abacha and 13 others.

A previously unknown group calling itself United Front for Nigeria's Liberation claimed it sabotaged the plane to step up a campaign to topple Abacha. The claim has not been independently verified.

Opposition groups have dissociated themselves from the front and offered Abacha their sympathies.

Nigeria has been in crisis since June 1993 when the army annulled a presidential election that was to end a long period of military rule and restore democracy.

Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 8:43pm On Feb 12, 2012
^

Above is probably an assassination attempt, by the same shadowy forces (IBB?), that murdered, Kudirat Abiola , MKO Abiola and eventually succeeded in assassinating Abacha.  sad

Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 7:36am On Feb 13, 2012
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Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 6:16pm On Feb 13, 2012
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Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 2:07pm On Feb 14, 2012
9th May 1996  - The New York Times
[size=18pt]Abiola's Wife Charged[/size]


. .LAGOS, Nigeria, May 8— The wife of the man who is believed to have won Nigeria's annulled presidential elections in 1993 and who is now in prison, was charged today with publishing false documents.

Kudirat Abiola, the wife of Mashood K. O. Abiola, was held overnight and questioned by the police about documents claiming that her husband is Nigeria's rightful President. One of the documents also called for the Nigeria's current leader, Gen. Sani Abacha, to give up power. Mrs. Abiola was released on bail pending a trail set for May 28. If found guilty of all charges she could face up to seven years in prison.

Mr. Abiola has been in detention for almost two years. He was arrested and charged with treason in 1994 following his claim to have won the presidency in the 1993 election.

Mrs. Abiola has been active in helping to mobilize international pressure against the current Government, and has been a critic of Nigeria's military rulers.

Mrs. Abiola has been involved in a dispute over which lawyer should represent her husband. A court in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, ruled today that Mr. Abiola should appear in court on Friday to choose a lawyer to represent him.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-693700.192.html#msg8861354

Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 4:01pm On Feb 15, 2012
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Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 4:05pm On Feb 15, 2012
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Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by ranlaen: 6:40pm On Feb 15, 2012
oil was $9 a barrel in 90s?
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 6:50pm On Feb 15, 2012
^^
Yes, and despite the very low income from Oil, Abacha was still able to sell fuel at N11/litre (without claiming that fuel is subsidised), when he did increase fuel used part of the revenue realised to finance the Petroleum Trust Fund , which main role was to improve infrastructure.
Re: Sani Abacha was honest & one of Nigeria's best ever leaders. by Nobody: 3:34am On Feb 16, 2012
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