GenBuhari: [size=18pt]Abacha was one of best leaders Nigeria ever had.

Forget malicious propaganda against him and research his performance, economically, foreign policy /regional influence, sporting achievement.

Once you do your research, you will realise how the enemies of Nigeria has deceived Nigerians.

Even the so-called "Abacha Loot" was never linked to Abacha it was just another elaborate scam to add credence to the lie that Abacha was a looter.[/size]

piphunter: one apple

lagcity: I would like to know what IBB thought of Abacha's leadership. Was IBB in support of it or was he paranoid and sleepless in his Minna mansion after OBJ and Yaradua were arrested? I would like to know more about the relationship between these two guys. I heard IBB was pissed that Abacha overthrew the Transitional Govt. of Shonekan. Is this true?

haryhorku: please can you send the full details into my email box? olatunjijohn@gmail.com. Thanks

360command: Do you know that : No matter how broke the Abacha family are, they can never be as poor as Dangote !

distribute inc.:

will you live forever...think before you post.
what this man has achieved no member of your lineage or generation can ever achieve 10percent of it-till the end of time.

chief batiatus: Shame shame shame on u the OP for posting a laudable article on that pig called abacha, incase u don't know he is the reason why u have no job and thus have time to be posting clueless and shameful posts like this

CORDROSS: Iyaniwura,

The full details has been removed from the page.
Can you kindly forward to my mail peter.adeyemi@yahoo.co.uk?
Regards

beeman80: The man was loved by some and revered by others.

Ilaje44:

What did he achieve that is worthy of praise? The idioti along with Babangida are responsible for the total collapse of law and order in Nigeria. They have corrupted Nigeria beyond redemption....
Akutuku e lona orun apaadi.

idupaul:

Sharrap there .. Obasanjo and his PDP wagon are the reason why there are no Jobs .. So u want to blame a man who died in 98 for unemployment almost 20yrs later

tomakint:
Just to settle your confusion that was the man that launched the 'First failed Bank Tribunal' in the history of this country, go figure how much that singular exercise saved into the coffers of this country! He was the same man that fought the Hausa-Fulani Hegemony to a standstill by banishing the then megalomaniac Sultan of Sokoto, Dasuki into house arrest in Taraba and giving the exalted caliphate position to the rightful person Alhaji Maccido! He signed the current GSM licence we now enjoy way back late 1997! He made the super rich and the extremely corrupt personalities to quake in their boots because of their shady deals! This was the same man that never courted the 'relationship of the Western nations' as a result of the sanctions meted out to Nigeria by the International community and yet still managed the economy well by not borrowing! He was however not a perfect man, he had his own personal demons, but hate him or love him, He did his very best unlike the 'wicked ones' we try to deified now when in actual facts, they are 100 times more corrupt and diabolic than the man, ABACHA! Good job Iyaniwura, I love your efforts!

Ìyániwúrà123: Thanks tomakint, and 1,000 likes for your superb contribution. You are so on point!

Ìyániwúrà123: -INTRODUCTION

What if I tell you that General SANINEGERIA MOHAMMED ABACHA, the most popular Kanuri person in the world was regarded as the most patient man on earth? My Mum, the Ogidi 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.

Get the full gist here: http://.com/sani-abacha-nigerias-most-enigmatic-ruler/

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...

Known to many as an incorrigible kleptomaniac who will stop at nothing to succeed himself in power, 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. 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.

OVERVIEW

-EARLY DAYS & SCHOOLING

--CAREER & COUPS

--PERSONALS, MARRIAGE, FAMILY & CHILDREN

-AS HEAD OF STATE: CABINET & PRESIDENTIAL STAFF, HIS FIRST LADY, OPPOSITION, SUPPORT, FOREIGN POLICIES ETC

-ACHIEVEMENTS, ACTIVITIES & EVENTS UNDER ABACHA

-INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT HIM

-CORRUPTION

-DEATH

-AFTERMATH AND LEGACIES

-QUOTES (His Words) & What Others Say About Him
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-EARLY DAYS & SCHOOLING
Unlike other leaders who had 'humble' backgrounds, Abacha was not born into squalid poverty. As a matter of fact, his was a prosperous family with his father owning a successful trucking business in Kano State. The family which migrated to Kano in search of greener pastures, also had a bakery they named 'Canteen Abacha'.

-A Kanuri man (Abacha is NOT Hausa or Fulani, that is quite important as some people tend to lump the entire north together as 'Hausa-Fulani' bloc, Hausa is not Fulani and vice versa), he was born in Borno State on a Monday, the 20th September, 1943, grew up in Kano and blended so well that he lies in the soil of the ancient city after he gave up the ghost on another Monday half a century later. His father was positioning him to take over the family's bread baking business and he ensured he got a good education so as to stem the tide of illiteracy in the family although young Sani would be notorious for his truancy rather than astronomical academic wizardry. At about the same time, the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, was promoting a 'northernization' campaign which saw the influx of many eager and enthusiastic lads into the military and other institutions. One of them was a Kanuri boy. Sani.

-City Senior Primary School, Kano.

-Kano Provincial Secondary School (finished in 1957).

-Government College, Kano (1957-1962), now called Rumfa College.

-Nigerian Military Training College (NMTC) (now called the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA), Zaria, Kaduna State (1962-1963).

-Mons Defence Officers Cadet Training College, Aldershot, England.


While a student his academic exploits become murky as some reports indicate that the former Nigerian ruler did not graduate from high school before proceeding to NMTC. The intellectual height and the depth of Abacha’s sagacity is a subject of intense debate with colleagues like General Olusegun Obasanjo dismissing him a dull personality, an ‘expendable brute not expected to rise beyond the rank of a warrant officer.’

Some even cited his not attending Sandhurst Royal Military Academy as evidence of an intrinsic lack of intelligence. But Abacha had a way of stupefying his opponents and those who underestimated him. He eventually became the Commander-in-Chief of the world’s most populous black nation. That doesn’t sound like what a stupid dimwit can achieve.

-CAREER & COUPS

Here is an overview of Abacha’s rise through the ranks in the Nigerian Army:

-Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant: 1963 -Lieutenant: 1966 -Captain: 1967 -Platoon and Battalion Commander, Training Department, Commander, 2nd Infantry Division, Major: 1969 -Lieutenant Colonel: 1972 -Commanding Officer, 2nd Infantry Brigade, Colonel: 1975 -Brigadier: 1980

(Iyaniwura)

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