I am allergic to dictators, even if they somehow manage to dress up in democratic robes. Nigerians cannot ever forget in a hurry how some time ago all the five political parties of a leprous hand manufactured by General Sani Abacha nominated the no-nonsense dictator as Nigeria’s would-be democratic president. Some of us had to resort to guerrilla journalism to stop the dark-goggled evil general in his tracks. Abacha jailed a good number of the journalists and killed some others, a sad example being Bagauda Kaltho. Just the other day,…
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