Volume 45, Number 14 · September 24, 1998

The Country of Anything Goes

By General Olusegun Obasanjo

The author, a retired general of the Nigerian Army, was president of Nigeria from 1976 until 1979, when he handed over power to the winner of a national election, the only Nigerian military leader to have done so. Arrested and imprisoned by General Sani Abacha in 1995, he was recently released from prison following General Abacha's death this June.



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