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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here     Daily Independent Online.         * Monday, June 14, 2004. Abacha was to hang Obasanjo -  Museveni By Tokunbo Oloruntola News Editor (with Agency report) Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni says the late Sani Abacha had concluded plans to hang President Olusegun Obasanjo for his alleged role in the 1995 phantom coup but for the intervention of himself and  Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. The decision to plead with the hard man not to execute Obasanjo, who was then in prison, was taken at the summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMSA) (then called Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa) in 1994, according to Museveni. He revisited the issue last week while addressing the ninth COMESA summit in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. A report published in last Wednesday’s edition of The Herald, based in Harare, said Museveni recalled that the 1994 summit tasked him and Mugabe to go to Abuja and plead with Abacha not to send Obasanjo to the gallows. "I am glad that Obasanjo was not hanged. I salute Abacha because, at least, he listened to our appeals. It was a COMESA appeal because you sent us. "President Mugabe and myself were elected by the summit to go to Nigeria to plead for Obasanjo not to be hanged. We were shown a file on why he should be hanged," Museveni stated. He said a Nigerian Army officer had told him that others from minor tribes had been hanged and that it would be “undemocratic” if Obasanjo, from a major tribe, was not sent to his untimely death through the hangman.       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.dailyindependentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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