The populous south-west region, the home of Chief Moshood Abiola, who won the annulled 1993 election and ended up in prison, is unlikely to turn out to vote.
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The last presidential election, in 1993, appeared to have been won by a southern business tycoon, Moshood Abiola, but before all the results were out, the soldiers annulled the polls.
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Mr Abubakar, who ran Nigeria for just 11 months in 1998 and 1999, could be expected to face questions over the mysterious deaths of both his predecessor Abacha, and a jailed civilian opposition leader, Moshood Abiola.