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Kudirat Abiola, 44, an outspoken critic of Nigeria's military regime and the wife of jailed opposition leader Moshood Abiola, was in her car when she and her driver were shot at close range...
...military regime has been under intense international pressure to release Moshood Abiola and scores of other political prisoners jailed since Abacha's November 1993 coup...
...other parts of the country. To ensure continued profits from the oil industry, the military government of Nigeria instituted a crackdown resulting in the deaths of over 2,000 of Saro-Wiwa's tribes people. In 1993, during the transition from military to civil government, Abacha imprisoned Chief Moshood Abiola, the democratically chosen president, declaring the election invalid...
...after thousands of oil workers ended their strike to protest the arrest of opposition leader Moshood Abiola, Nigeria's military leader General Sani Abacha declared absolute power, issuing decrees placing his military government above the country's courts and allowing detention of people for up to three months without charges. Abiola, widely believed to have won the annulled 1993 presidential election, awaits trial on treason charges...
...catalyst behind the unrest was Moshood Abiola, a bearish 56-year-old multimillionaire who is widely believed -- based on incomplete results -- to have won election as President in June 1993. He was deprived of victory, however, by General Ibrahim Babangida, who had ruled the country for eight years. Babangida charged fraud and annulled the results before they were published...