How Chief Abiola was killed in government custody
The fresh investigation will, as opined by the Oputa Panel, “throw light to and inform the Nigerian people on what killed Chief Moshood Abiola” in the custody of the Abubakar military junta.
The Chukwudifu Oputa Panel instituted by the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration to investigate the egregious human rights abuse which defined military rule in Nigeria probed the death of Chief Abiola.
Following the controversial death of Abacha on June 8, 1998, he was succeeded by his Chief of Defence Staff, General Abdusalami Abubakar as Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria.
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