With hindsight, I think it is fair to say that if General Babangida had had the slightest inkling that Nwosu’s Option A4 would be such a resounding success, he would not have allowed the polls to hold. It seemed that the calculation of the military was that after they had failed to use Professor Awa to deliver a flawed democratic process, Nwosu would not want to be removed like his predecessor and would ‘cooperate.’ But Nwosu knew he was having a rare…
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