General Sani Abacha was Nigeria's most autocratic military ruler to date. The nature of his rule led to ________.
A. a massive influx of oil revenues to the central government
B. an astonishing tripling of Nigeria's capital stock in only eight years
C. intense domestic and political pressure for a genuine transition to democratic
politics
D. increase in redistributive taxation and welfare spending
E. widespread participation and interparty contestation in free and fair elections to
elect the next government
Question 2
The federal character system was created with the goal of ________.
A. undermining the inter-regional conflict that contributed to the Biafran War
B. banning of all popular political activity and sanctioning widespread human rights
abuses
C. concentrating power in the hands of the central government and delegitimizing the
authority of regional legislatures
D. dissolving all existing parties to give power to the military rulers
E. ensuring that indirect rule is the primary approach toward administering the Niger
Delta