(Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia, Volume 2 PAGE 447)[1] [2] [3] The YEAA campaign, led by Daniel Kanu, placed billboards around the country, publicized advertisements in the media and sponsored editorials to encourage support for Abacha.
(Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa: Five Decades of Misrule) [4] [5] [6] The support of the former military leader culminated in 1998 with what is now famously remembered as 2 Million Man March, the largest gathering in history of Nigeria, coordinated by YEAA and NACYAN.
Africa Research Bulletin reported that YEAA had distributed free exercise books to schools, that it had plans to distribute subsidized imported "Abacha Rice" and that it had bought two new buses, equipped with speakers and modern communications equipment (20 Mar.
[7] According to an interview with Daniel Kanu the costs of the rally, estimated at 400-500 million Naira, were paid for by "patriotic individuals" (NTA TV 5 Mar.
(PG 115 Repressive State and Resurgent Media Under Nigeria’s Military Dictatorship)[9] [10] [11] After the death of General Sani Abacha, the following governments abandoned implementation of Vision 2010