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SUMMARY
Conclusively in all ramifications, it is know that on November 17, 1993, General Sani Abacha took over power from the interim national government which was led by Ernest Sonekan. There have been some general view by some scholars that the administration of General Sani Abacha was tyrannical in nature due to the fact that his domestic policy led to human right abuses, take for instance the killing of the Ogoni 9, the arrest and detention of Chief Moshoo Abiola in June 1994 the imprisonment of some prominent opponent like Major – General Shehu Musa Ya’adua, who were framed up and convicted; and third the hanging of ken Saro – Wiwa. The failure of Abacha to handover political power to Chief Moshood Abiola, the winner of the 1993 presidential elections, and Abacha’s subsequent imprisonment of Abiola, coupled with the regime’s intolerance of dissent and opposition, made it unpopular.
When Gen Sani Abacha came to power, claims were made that there was a pact between him and some prominent Abiola supporters to employ his seizure of power to right the wrong of june 12, 1993 annulment. The highhandedness of the Abacha regime in handling the problems precipitated by the annulment of June 12 presidential elections was soon to raised questions of human right abuses which was added to already tarnished image of the country abroad.
