By Kingston Magare 21.7.2026
Contrary to long held believe former Nigerian dictator late General Sanni Abacha died after being fed a poisoned Apple by imported Indian ladies, it had been revealed that Abacha died while having sex with an Ibo lady whose sister was Abacha’s girlfriend.
This revelation is contained in a memoir “DSS @40: My Journey Behind the Shield,” written by former Department of State Services (DSS) assistant director Dennis Amachree.
Snippets of the book published by the Nation revealed that Abacha suffered a heart attacked while on over drive with the unidentified lady who was a pharmacist.
Amachree claimed in the book that the woman was Abacha’s girlfriend younger sister. The two women arrived at the Aso Rock Villa on the night of the incident; Abacha instantly took a liking for the younger lady and her older sister later left younger sibling alone with the Abacha.
“At approximately 2.40 a.m., shortly after Gen. Useni left, Abacha’s girlfriend, an Igbo lady (name withheld), arrived at the Aso Rock Guest House from the Nicon Noga Hilton Hotel,” the book narrates.
“With her was her younger sister, a pharmacist who was in Abuja for a conference. The Head of State had just bought his girlfriend a new SUV, and they decided to stop by to say hello to ‘Oga’.
“Abacha was taken with the younger sister, and after a short while, the girlfriend returned to the hotel, leaving the pharmacist alone with the Head of State.
“At about 4.05 a.m., as they were getting intimate, the pharmacist realised Abacha had stopped moving. She called out to him, but he was unresponsive and stiff. She checked his pulse; there was none.”
According to Amachree, the woman hurriedly dressed and informed the soldier on duty that Abacha had requested a vehicle to take her back to her hotel.
“The soldier, unaware of the gravity of the situation, promptly arranged for her transportation. She returned to the Hilton, and after telling her sister what had happened, was quickly driven to the Abuja Airport to catch the 7 a.m. Okada Airline flight to Lagos,” the book added.
Amachree claimed that by the time Abacha’s Chief Security Officer, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, was informed around 5 a.m., the woman had already left Abuja.
He said the DSS was immediately alerted and moved to arrest the older sister at the Hilton Hotel, but the younger sister had already departed for Lagos.
The former DSS officer said he later interrogated the pharmacist in Ogudu, Lagos, on the instructions of the agency’s Director of Operations at the national headquarters.
According to him, the woman’s first words during the interrogation were, “I did not kill him, he died on top of me.”
“My team located and brought her to my office. I interrogated her myself,” Amachree wrote.
“The first thing she said to me was: ‘I did not kill him; he died on top of me.’ After her detailed account, I called the Director in Abuja, and she was immediately flown back.
“The lady pharmacist’s account, on whom Abacha apparently had a coitus-induced cardiac arrest, remains the true position, and puts an end to the conspiracy theories and half-truths that have gone viral.”
Late Abacha overthrew the interim government of Mr. Earnest Shonekan after Nigeria was thrown into turmoil following the annulment of the June 12, 1993, elections won by Moshood Abiola.
Abacha ruled with an iron fist maiming and killing anyone who opposed the military regime, he had Abiola imprisoned. But on June 8, 1998, the nation woke up the news Abacha had died. Precisely a month later on July 7, Abiola also passed away while he was waiting to be released from detention.
