AL-MUSTAPHA'S PRISON NOTES **I would Have Gunned Down Abdulsalami. **I noticed how Abacha's body changed when President Yasser Arafat security operatives shook hands with him **Abacha and MKO's death were organized.
"My Boss, General Sani Muhammad Abacha, died at the early hours of
Monday, 8th June, 1998. I had prepared him for a workshop organized by
the Federal Ministry of Information for that day as he was expected to
deliver an address as the Special Guest of Honour. His speech was
drafted and fine tuned by the Chief Press Secretary, Chief David Attah
who had submitted it to the Aide-De Camp for vetting and necessary
amendments by the Commander-in-Chief. When I got to the bedside of the
Head of State, he was already gasping. Ordinarily, I could not just
touch him. It was not allowed in our job. But under the situation on
ground, I knelt close to him and shouted, “General Sani Abacha, Sir,
please grant me permission to touch and carry you.”
"Contrary
to insinuations, speculations and sad rumours initiated by some sections
of the society, I maintain that the sudden collapse of the health
system of the late Head of State started previous day (Sunday, 7th June,
1998) right from the Abuja International Airport immediately after one
of the white security operatives or personnel who accompanied President
Yasser Arafat of Palestine shook hands with him (General Abacha) I had
noticed the change in the countenance of the late Commander-in-Chief
and informed the Aide-de-Camp, Lt. Col. Abdallah, accordingly. He,
however, advised that we keep a close watch on the Head of State. Later
in the evening of 8th June, 1998, around 6p.m; his doctor came around,
administered an injection to stabilize him. He was advised to have a
short rest. Happily, enough, by 9p.m; the Head of State was bouncing and
receiving visitors until much later when General Jeremiah Timbut Useni,
the then Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, came calling. He
was fond of the Head of State. They were very good friends. They stayed
and chatted together till about 3.35a.m. A friend of the house was with
me in my office and as he was bidding me farewell, he came back to
inform me that the FCT Minister, General Useni was out of the Head of
State’s Guest House within the Villa."
