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Article: Nigeria's loss: another death has endangered hopes for civilian rule.(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 11, 1998
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Another death has endangered hopes for civilian rule
UNLUCKY Nigeria. The death, whether from natural or more sinister causes, of Chief Moshood Abiola may yet dash Nigeria's best chance since independence for stable civilian rule. Only a month earlier, the death, also apparently from a heart attack, of General Sani Abacha, the man who had kept Chief Abiola-and Nigeria-locked up for four years, had seemed to create an opportunity. Power fell unexpectedly to a group of senior army officers, led by General Abdulsalam Abubakar, who seemed keen to return Nigeria to elected civilian government and the soldiers to their barracks. What to do about Chief Abiola, who had won ...