{"id":917635,"date":"2022-01-19T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/abacha-was-very-smart-he-deceived-prominent-nigerians-to-get-to-power\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:09:49","slug":"abacha-was-very-smart-he-deceived-prominent-nigerians-to-get-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/abacha-was-very-smart-he-deceived-prominent-nigerians-to-get-to-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Abacha Was Very Smart \u2014 He Deceived Prominent Nigerians To Get To Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_699131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-699131\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-699131 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5d58f3c5109f0-600x359.jpg\" alt=\"IBB: Abacha Was Very Smart \u2014 He Deceived Prominent Nigerians To Get To Power\" width=\"600\" height=\"359\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-699131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Nigerian President, Ibrahim Babangida<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former\u00a0military head of state Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) claims that former military dictator Sani Abacha deceived \u201cprominent Nigerians\u201d to gain power.<\/p>\n<p>Babangida claimed in 2021 that he cancelled the election because a deadly coup would have taken place if he had not.<\/p>\n<p>Babaginda said Abacha deceived Nigerians by pledging to return the country to civilian governance after deposing Shonekan in an interview with Daily Trust TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbacha\u2019s government was very smart. They knew who were the most vociferous discussants about the election, about the coup, about June 12 and so on,\u201d Babangida said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_ead td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0How Battle Against Corruption Can Be Won In Nigeria\u2014 IBB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey started talking to them and sold a dummy to them and encouraged them to get rid of the interim government: \u2018when we get rid of the interim government, we will bring you back to come and take over your democracy so that a civilian government would be installed\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey sold that dummy to the public and to some prominent persons within the society, and when Abacha stepped in, there were drumming and sighs; \u2018Good thing! Next thing is going to be a democratically-elected government\u2019. I knew, we knew, that it wouldn\u2019t be because the argument was: \u2018Why should I risk my life only to come and hand over power to you?\u2019 That was what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew it will not come as a surprise because even though I was outside \u2013 outside the service \u2013 I knew what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian President, Ibrahim Babangida Former\u00a0military head of state Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) claims that former military dictator Sani Abacha deceived \u201cprominent Nigerians\u201d to gain power. Babangida claimed in 2021 that he cancelled the election because a deadly coup would have taken place if he had not. Babaginda said Abacha deceived Nigerians by pledging to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}