<div>Fake: Abacha never said so about insurgency and Government having a hand if it last more than 24 hours:</div><div><br></div><div>That quote has been going round Nigeria for years, and it is one of the biggest false quotes in our history.</div><div><br></div><div>The quote people share is this: If insurgency lasts more than 24 hours, the government has a hand in it.</div><div><br></div><div>People put Abacha name under it. People put Abacha picture beside it. People share it on WhatsApp, on Facebook, on X. But there is no record that Abacha ever said it.</div><div><br></div><div>Let me show you why it is false:</div><div><br></div><div>No date. Nobody can tell you when he said it. Was it 1993? 1994? 1995? 1996? 1997? 1998? </div><div><br></div><div>Nobody knows.</div><div><br></div><div>No place. Nobody can tell you where he said it. Was it in Abuja? Was it in Lagos? Was it in a press conference? Was it in a speech? Was it in an interview? Nobody knows.</div><div><br></div><div>No video. No audio. No newspaper report from that time. No transcript in the Federal Government Gazette. No record in the Abacha speeches that were published by the government.</div><div><br></div><div>No witness. No minister, no general, no journalist who was there has come out to say, I heard him say it.</div><div><br></div><div>A real quote has a source. This one has no source. It only has sharing.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a massive newspaper archive from 1884 to todays newspaper and that quote doesn’t exist.</div><div><br></div><div>Now You Know </div><div><br></div><div>Nigerians made it up.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>https://x.com/nwoko_greg62705/status/2120783015622119839</div>