Gun smoke from the east (2), By Tunde Olusunle

Wole Soyinka, Anthony Enahoro, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and a number of opponents of the Abacha despotism, voted with their feet, while others like Gani Fawehinmi, Femi Falana, Olisa Agbakoba, sustained pressure on that regime from within. According to Rogers, the instruction to him and his colleagues from their bosses, was that those on the hit […]

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Gun smoke from the east (1), By Tunde Olusunle

I’ve become more circumspect, lately, in my choice of labels for our leaders, past and present. I was going to begin this piece by referring to the regime of Nigeria’s last but one uniformed leader, General Sani Abacha as one of untold tyranny, unequalled dictatorship, unrivalled despotism. Abacha, however, has been succeeded by some of […]

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