Nigeria Remembers When Democracy Lost to a Coup

Many Nigerians will observe June 12 to mark the annulled 1993 elections which they believe was won by M.K.O. Abiola who was arrested and imprisoned after a military coup.

 

 

M.K.O. Abiola and Sani Abacha.

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