The right to choose
Subtitle: the M. D. Yusufu presidential campaign against General Sani Abacha, 1997-1998
By: editors Alkasum Abba, Abdul Okwechime
Contributors: Yusufu, Mohammed Dikko, 1931-2015, interviewee; Abdullahi Smith Centre for Historical Research
Publisher: Abdullahi Smith Centre for Historical Research
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Zaria, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9789789651573
Subjects: Interviews; Presidential candidates; Presidents; Election; Politics and government; Democratization; Grassroot Democratic Movement (Nigeria)
Other titles: M. D. Yusufu presidential campaign against General Sani Abacha, 1997-1998
Description: "This book is ... made up of the print media campaign of MD Yusufu, both interviews and advertorials. They are published here for the purpose of documenting Nigerian political history, especially with regards to the struggles for democracy and social justice, which brings out the significant role played by MD Yusufu in the enthronement of the current democratic dispensation, which Nigeria has enjoyed, since shortly after the death of General Sani Abacha on 8th June 1998."--Page 14.
Notes: Published interviews, December 1997 to July 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Alkasum Abba, Abdul Okwechime -- 1.; title: There is a national emergency, Nigerians should come out and be counted  -- interview with Eziuche Ubani and Yusuph Olaniyoni, This Day -- (8th December, 1997, pp. 28) -- 2.; title: I can't be anybody's boy  -- interviewed by Blessyn Okpokwo, Weekend Vanguard -- (Dec. 13, 1997, p. 3) -- 3.; title: Anybody can contest against Abacha and win  -- interview with Fred Ohwahwa in The Guardian -- (Sunday 28th December, 1997) -- 4.; title: We will see how people will vote for apologists of military rule  -- interview with Akpo Esajere, The Guardian -- (Monday, 5th January, 1998, p. 6 -- 5.; title: We have to get the military out  -- interview in Nigerian Tribune -- (Friday 9, January, 1998) -- 6.; title: Let Braithwaite present his agenda, and I'll daze him  -- interview with Blessyn Okpokwo, Weekend Vanguard -- (Saturday, 10th January, 1998, p. 4) -- 7.; title: I won't revisit June 12, if elected  -- interview with Adewale Adeoye, and Busola Ogumnola, Sunday Punch -- (11th January, 1998, pp. 1-2) -- 8.; title: If election is annuled again, Nigerians will riot  -- interview with Muyiwa Akintunde and Yemisi Fadairo, The Post Express -- (Tuesday, 13th January, 1998, p. 10) -- 9.; title: Abacha is no match  -- interview with Joseph Ode and Ibrahim Modibbo, assistant editor, Newswatch -- (Monday, 19th January, 1998, pp. 8-9) -- 10.; title: I will beat Abacha  -- interview with Demola Abimboye, The News -- (Monday, 19th January, 1998, pp. 22-24) -- 11.; title: The military has turned all of us into zombies  -- interview with Fola Arogundade and Chris Ochayi, Sunday Vanguard -- (Febriary 1, 1998, p. 3) -- 12.; title: I will defeat Abacha in a fair contest  -- interview in Sunday New Nigerian -- (8th February 1998, pp. 4-15) -- 13.; title: Nobody can scare me  -- interview with Olusegun Adeniyi and Louis Odion, Sunday Concord -- (February 8, 1998, p. 9) -- 14.; title: Parties' decision very shameful  -- interview with Busola Ogunwola, Sunday Punch -- (February 8, 1998, pp. 10) -- 15.; title: I don't believe in politics of polemics  -- interview with Chris Ochayi, Sunday Vanguard -- (February 22, 1998, p. 5) -- 16.; title: Alone against Abacha  -- interview with Demola Abimboye, Osita Nwahah and Jenkin Salumona, The News -- (23 February 1998, pp. 25-27) -- 17.; title: Diarchy is unacceptable  -- interview in Today -- (22-29th February, 1998, p. 10) -- 18.; title: Military regimes are occupational forces  -- interview with Paul Ogundipe, Sunday Tribune -- (March 15th 1998, p. 9) -- 19.; title: I could be returned unopposed  -- interview with C. Ogwu et al in Grapevine -- (23 March 1998, pp. 18-23) -- 20.; title: I don't know you : Yusufu denies Abacha  -- interviewed by Mike Awoyinfa and Digba Igwa, Weekend Concord -- (Saturday March 21, 1998) -- 21.; title: I'll call for strikes if Abacha stays put  -- an interview in National Concord -- (March 23rd 1998) -- 22.; title: We're in the race to save Nigeria  -- The Vanguard -- (March 27th 1998) -- 23.; title: Why I want to be president  -- interview with Newswatch -- (March 30th 1998) -- 24.; title: How to stop the military  -- interview with Ayo Falodun and Bimbo Adebanwo, The Source -- (March 30, 1998) -- 25.; title: M.D. Yusufu sees beyond transition  -- interview in the Weekly Trust -- (March 22-28, 1998) -- 26.; title: We are not for consensus nonsense  -- interview with Mikail Mumuni, Victor Oladinni and Uche Maduemesi, TELL -- (April 6, 1998, pp. 18-21) -- 27.; title: Why I am against Abacha  -- interview in The Guardian -- (Saturday, April 11th, 1998) -- 28.; title: Somebody is getting nervous about me  -- interview in Sunday Vanguard -- (April 12th, 1998, p. 5) -- 29.; title: We have to encourage civil disobedience  -- interview with Afufuejuwa Afufu-Egbunam and Muyiwa Ojo, in Omega Weekly -- (April 30th, 1998) -- 30.; title: Yusufu's new offensive  -- interview with Blessyn Okpokwu, editor, The Vanguard -- (June 27th, 1998) -- 31.; title: Military must quit now / dr interview with Tunde Abatan in The Week-- (July 27th, 1998).