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DEATH DOES NOT FEAR ANYBODY Another reminder that worldly wealth and power are no match for death. Again we see Sani Abacha with his sunglasses and boxes of money in the upper right. Also featured are other prominent Nigerians who have recently died. The poster carefully features wealthy members of each of the three dominant ethnic groups—Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo. Moshood Abiola, whose election as president in 1993 was annulled by the military, is also shown surrounded by money. Abiola, a Yoruba, won a popular election and was then imprisoned by a military regime that was led by Abacha. Both the incumbent Abacha and the imprisoned contender Abiola died within weeks of each other in 1998, shortly before the parties selected their presidential candidates. The circumstances of both deaths were, needless to say, considered suspect. The poster reminds us that though both men had spectacular wealth and political influence, neither were safe from death, represented here as a skeletal cherub.
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