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SUMMARY
Abacha had won his contest against the combined forces of the Commonwealth, the European Union, South Africa and the United States. That formidable combination of adversaries was unable to compel Abacha’s ruling junta to cede power to its domestic opponents, or even to a coalition of civilians controlled by its supporters, any sooner than it wished to do so, if at all. Despite Nigeria’s interminable and debilitating political crisis, and related threats of sectionalist separatism, the junta has been able to withstand the assault mounted by leading Western powers and their allies. The evidence presented herein shows that the junta’s resilience is attributed to the combined support of a broad based domestic political coalition and trans-national business groups, mainly oil companies, which sustain the third largest national economy in Africa, after South Africa and Egypt.
