Ex President Olusegun Obasanjo has narrated his experience on death row during the Abacha regime, saying there is no alternative to democracy.
He recalled that he and some retired military officers and civilians were jailed in 1995 for allegedly plotting to overthrow the administration and released after Abacha’s death in 1998.
“The alternative to democracy is worse than democracy. I experienced that. Abacha put me in prison and I was about to be killed. If it was under democracy (democratic rule), that would not happen.”
Obasanjo, who said no matter what the critics of President Muhammadu Buhari might be saying, added that in the last two and a half months Nigerians had started to witness a Nigeria of their dreams.
He noted that the country had headed toward the precipice so many times before, but God had not allowed it.
He spoke at his residence in Abeokuta while receiving officials of the National Association of Nigerians Students.
