The Minister of Solid Minerals, Dele Lake, has revealed that President Bola Tinubu had to flee from Nigeria because the goons of former Head of State, late Gen. Sani Abacha, were looking for him.

According to him, the Abacha regime wanted Tinubu brought in dead or alive because he was one of those who fought against the military regime and the annulment of the June 12, 1993, elections.

Alake said this while countering a claim by a former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, that Tinubu played no role in the struggle against the annulment of the election.

Lamido also alleged that Tinubu was instead in bed with the Abacha regime at the time.

Speaking on Arise TV, Alake said, “If Tinubu was working for Abacha, how would he be doing that? How would he be confronting Abacha frontally that he was in detention. And in fact, there was a time they issued a directive that he must be found, he must be brought in dead or alive.

“It was at that point he had to leave through the famous NADECO route. The Abacha goons were all over looking for him. And I remember that. So that was the reason that he left. So he didn’t run away,” Alake stated in his defence of the President.

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