The Difference Between Abacha And Yakowa

I wouldn't have had to make this comparison were it not for a comment I read on social media, where someone tried to justify the jubilation in Kaduna by some people over the death of Governor Yakowa in an helicopter crash. He asked, "When Abacha died did people from a certain part of this country not jubilate? Or was Abacha not human too and therefore did not deserve dignity in death?

"Are we not living witnesses to the various derogatory cartoons, posters, snide remarks and wholesale abuse heaped on his person and family. If no one had the presence of mind to call all those people to order at that time why now? What has changed?..." At least this person had some decency to "...deeply mourn Yakowa's passing..."

From what I remember, Nigerians all over rejoiced. People rejoiced at Abacha's death, not because he was a Muslim and from the North, but because he had prior to his death brought untold hardship on Nigerians, and all that opposed his rule. The celebration of Abacha's demise, unlike Governor Yakowa, was a jubilation to the end of anarchy.

Governor Yakowa, I read, although a Christian did all he could within his Executive power to unite a religiously-torn Kaduna. It is said that he did this even at the face of constant disturbances from his opponents, whose only dislike of the governor was because he was a Christian. Abacha on the other hand when alive, did nothing but steal, kill and destroy.