THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DOMESTIC POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL IMAGE; A CASE STUDY OF SANI ABACHA

SUMMARY

Conclusively in all ramifications, it is know that on November 17, 1993, General Sani Abacha took over power from the interim national government which was led by Ernest Sonekan. There have been some general view by some scholars that the administration of General Sani Abacha was tyrannical in nature due to the fact that his domestic policy led to human right abuses, take for instance the killing of the Ogoni 9, the arrest and detention of   Chief Moshoo Abiola in June 1994 the imprisonment of some prominent opponent like Major – General Shehu Musa Ya’adua, who were framed up and convicted; and third the hanging of ken Saro – Wiwa. The failure of Abacha to handover political power to Chief Moshood Abiola, the winner of the 1993 presidential elections, and Abacha’s subsequent imprisonment of Abiola, coupled with the regime’s intolerance of dissent and opposition, made it unpopular