State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar . It was this bearded military leader whose intelligence and determination led to the final exit of the military from the corridor of power in May 1999; over 15 years after the sack of the Second Republic by soldiers in the dying days of December 1983.
The occasion also provided an opportunity for members of the academia and other professionals, including persons involved in the promotion of peace at both continental and global level, to honour a leader whose quest for deepening democracy through transparent electoral process sets him apart as an indisputed statesman and global icon.
To douse tension, Abubakar engaged competent people to assist him realise the dream of pulling through the transition time table. He demonstrated humility and unsurpassed honesty in reaching out to pro-democracy groups who, before then, had become thorns in the flesh of the immediate past military regime.
While he served as Head of State, Abubakar deployed discretion and avoided misuse of state powers in violating the rights of citizens. His interaction with the media, as confirmed by one of the founders of the now rested ‘Newswatch’ magazine, Mr Ray Ekpu, reveals him as a lover of the media whose appointment of Chief John Nwodo and Mallam Mohammed Haruna as Minister of Information and Chief Press Secretary respectively, created a healthy relationship between media and his government.
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