Obasanjo was appointed the president, he was not elected president. We did not have any election in 1999, we had a coronation.
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Tundun Abiola is expressing her view that Nigeria's 1999 transition to civilian rule did not represent a normal electoral process. She is arguing that the political arrangement that brought Olusegun Obasanjo into office was not equivalent to a freely contested election.