How Carter intervened to save me from Abacha’s gulag – Obasanjo

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Sunday, paid a heartfelt tribute to the late American President Jimmy Carter, describing him as a “humanist par excellence” and the only non-African leader who personally intervened with the late General Sani Abacha to secure his release from prison. Obasanjo was detained by Abacha in 1995, after criticising the