List of groups that supported Abacha and their leaders.
I.. Youths Earnestly Ask for Abacha (YEAA): Led by Daniel Kanu.
2. National Mobilisation and Persuasion Committee (NMPC): Led by Godwin Daboh.
3. General Sani Abacha Movement for Unity and Stability (GESAM): Led by Chief Yomi Tokoya.
4. Better Nigeria (ABN) was primarily formed by Chief Arthur Nzeribe, alongside figures like Abimbola Davies and Brigadier Haliru Akilu
5. Abacha Solidarity Movement (ASOMO): Led by Alhaji Abayomi Owulade.
6.Movement for Indigenous Democracy (MIDIA):Led by Alhaji Mohammed I. Hassan.
If they are still alive, we need to ask them many questions.
Tribalism is spreading everywhere because the Yoruba refused to be bullied into silence like the Hausa/Fulani.
I hope the Arewa community has learned its lessons, because the usual suspect will face them from 2031.
@AtakataJakarta The topic is about who produces the president. Don’t jump to other topics. Focus on this one. Now answer the question. How many presidents have come from your village?
@Riddwane It takes a considerable amount of kolomental to see the insecurity across the SW & MB, yet be here gloating about who has produced presidents more than others.
Ure very kindergarten in your worldview.
Grow up or remain stunted.
@Deethanol@Vennylion@Maya_leeke That's not patriotism those that are fueling tribalism have there personal agenda and they are gaining from the destruction
I don't think any reasonable yoruba person in his or her right senses should vote Peter Obi.
The man talks too much. He spat on yoruba people every time.
Abacha was a better democrat than Tinubu!
Abacha hired people from every part of the country.
Under Abacha, the country was under heavy sanction yet the economy was doing way better under Tinubu.
Under Abacha the killings were only among few elites.
Under Tinubu there are uncountable number of killings both elite and ordinary people.
Under Abacha, NADECO made a lot of noise, won elections.
Under Tinubu, opposition has been stifled, and one party system is now being encouraged.
National anthem no longer matters as On your mandate has completely replaced it.
Tinubu is a bigger calamity than Abacha.
@JamiluSufi Even the Pope came from Rome to plead on behalf of Ken Saro Wiwa & the Ogoni Nine.
What happened?
All those assassinated were just allegations against him??
Sgt. Rogers & the killer squads were forced to lie against him?
Allah is a patient God!
If any Northerner tells you he has a problem with Abacha, or that the dehumanisation of Abacha wasn’t a Yoruba project, he’s lying through his teeth.
We in the North love Abacha more than all of NADECO combined.
Facts are NOT stubborn. 😂
@JamiluSufi Love him as you all love the criminals from the north who have destroyed Nigeria. To tell you how terrible he is we're simply comparing the deeds of Tinubu to his. They're both criminals
@Vennylion E no go better for the abokis of they don't vote tinubu to continue ..who cares ...the killing will multiply more terrorist will spring up and the president will do no shit ...who dey beg una to vote obi ? Una dey mad if u no vote timubu to continue
@KelvinLawv@funshographix@X_Viktor007 It is your Obingo Peter obi go kpai not Tinubu Jagaban City boy . Oloriburuku ni eyin ibos sé, I will deal with you people with fire to fire war.
People celebrated in mass when this man died in 1998 but Peter Obi wants to rewrite history that he was a better head of state than this current President.
Everywhere Igbos go, they take their traditions with them. Between August and September, they celebrate the New Yam Festival in the United States 🇺🇸 and also have a leader known as Igwe there. Yet they don’t take over land or rule over the people of the USA but just contribute and help each other, and there are no riots over this.
But the truth is that they would have understood that South Africans 🇿🇦 have thin trust for anything Nigerian, and do anything they are doing on a low, because right now everything is being misinterpreted and misunderstood.
@BElesinloy38705@UchePOkoye@PeterObi So why the tears about obi he is not in charge of country policy ..why not campaign for tinubu u love with his achievement in office instead u are campaigning for Obi ..is that not madness ?
@Deethanol@UchePOkoye@PeterObi Akuko nah Cockerel, 😆
You can love whoever you want. Just like I love PBAT, David Umahi, and Hope Uzodinma.. It's a free choice and free world.
As for madness, IT RUNS EVERYWHERE AMONG CERTAIN DEMOGRAHIC AND PEOPLE!
GBN.
@TheYorubaTimes They died for their self not for any body ...is not same Nadeco members that protesters were shot at lekki on oct 20 year 2020 ? Una dey mad
🇳🇬 Peter Obi attacks democracy he once benefited from — NADECO heroes died for what he now mocks
There is a certain audacity that comes with rewriting history, and Peter Obi seems to have mastered it. The same man who has openly admitted to receiving an appointment under General Sani Abacha now has the nerve to compare the current democratic administration unfavourably to the Abacha regime. He suggests that Abacha, a military dictator who jailed journalists, muzzled the opposition, and presided over one of the most repressive eras in Nigeria’s history, was somehow more democratic and more respectful of human rights than the government of President Bola Tinubu.
Let us be clear. Abacha was not a democrat. He was a tyrant. He did not believe in human rights. He believed in survival of the fittest. He locked up Chief MKO Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12 election. He ordered the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists. He hounded Chief Anthony Enahoro, Pa Abraham Adesanya, and other NADECO leaders into exile. He turned the military against civilians. He ruled by fear, not by consent.
And yet, Peter Obi wants Nigerians to believe that the Abacha years were somehow better than what we have today. That is not criticism. That is historical distortion.
If NADECO had not fought as hard as they did, Peter Obi would not be enjoying the democracy he now takes for granted. If those heroes had stayed home, if they had kept quiet, if they had chosen comfort over sacrifice, Nigeria would not be what it is today. There is a real chance that Obi himself would have been jailed, silenced, or worse. The military had no tolerance for dissent, and they certainly had no tolerance for anyone who dared to challenge their authority. But Obi did not challenge them. He served them.
Today, across Africa, we see what happens when democracy is abandoned. In Burkina Faso, the military ruler has openly declared that there is no need for democracy. That is the path Obi seems to romanticise when he speaks of Abacha with misplaced nostalgia. That is the future he appears to be fighting for, a Nigeria where strongmen rule, where opposition is crushed, where mischief and manipulation can plunge the nation into chaos without any checks or balances.
That is not the Nigeria that NADECO died for. That is not the Nigeria that the heroes of June 12 bled for. They fought for a country where leaders are elected, not imposed. Where citizens have rights, not just commands. Where a man like Peter Obi can run for president without fear of being thrown into prison. The irony is that he owes his very freedom to the same democracy he now attacks.
NADECO was not a political party. It was a movement of patriots who risked everything to restore democracy. Many of them were Yoruba men and women who paid with their freedom, their fortunes, and in some cases, their lives. They did not serve under Abacha. They did not collect appointments from him. They stood against him when it was dangerous to do so.
Obi did not stand with them. By his own admission, he worked under Abacha. That is his right. But he cannot now turn around and claim the moral high ground on democracy. He cannot use the language of NADECO while his own past tells a different story.
This is not about where Obi comes from. It is about what he has done and what he now says.
So when he tweets about the destruction of democracy and the erosion of human rights, Nigerians have every right to ask: what was he doing when democracy was truly under threat? Where was his voice when the military ruled with iron fists? What price did he pay for the freedom he now enjoys?
The heroes of democracy in this country are known. Their names are written in blood and sacrifice. Peter Obi is not on that list.