The circumstances surrounding the death of former Nigerian Head of State, General Sani Abacha, have returned to public attention after conflicting accounts emerged from a former intelligence officer and a veteran journalist.
Former Department of State Services (DSS) official Dennis Amachree recently claimed in his memoir that Abacha died from a heart attack during a private encounter with a woman at the Presidential Guest House in Abuja on June 8, 1998.
However, veteran journalist Tony Eluemunor has strongly rejected that version of events, describing it as inaccurate and unsupported by the findings of security agencies that investigated the incident.
According to Eluemunor, Abacha had been battling several health conditions, including asthma, diabetes, and liver disease. He said available information indicated the former military ruler collapsed after suffering an asthma-related medical emergency, not during an intimate encounter.
The journalist also dismissed long-standing rumours involving foreign women, claiming the visitors at the residence were known acquaintances rather than prostitutes. He further alleged that security investigators examined the possibility that Abacha may have been exposed to a toxic substance during an official handshake with a member of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's delegation earlier that day.
Despite the competing narratives, no autopsy was conducted after Abacha's death, leaving the exact cause of his death officially unconfirmed.
Nearly three decades later, the circumstances surrounding the former military leader's death remain a subject of speculation and historical debate.
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