Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon has revealed how he pleaded with late Gen. Sani Abacha not to execute former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the alleged coup plot in 1995.
Gowon made this disclosure at the first edition of the Interdenominational Unity Christmas Carol and Praise Festival organised by the Plateau Government.
DAILY POST recalls that Obasanjo was arrested in 1995 by Gen. Sani Abacha and convicted of being part of a planned coup to overthrow his government.
Obasanjo spent three years in prison before he was released in 1998 after the death of Gen. Abacha on June 8 of that year.
“I wrote a letter to Abacha, I pleaded with him that God made him a leader to do good and not evil.
“I sent my wife with the letter in the middle of the night to Abacha in Abuja; I pleaded with him that such a thing should not happen
