For A Corruption Free Nigeria **HOW MKO ABIOLA DIED:** …Senator Rowland Owie (Former Senate Chief Whip) June 12, 2013 June 12 is the appropriate repayment of evil for M.K.O Abiola. Whatever you sow, you will reap. You can’t be destroying others and expect to have victory because those who destroy others must end with destruction at their hour of victory. In 1979, i was in the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, (Awolowo’s party), and i was a UPN legislator elected into the federal House of Representatives. There was a provision in the transition decree of 1978/79 for an Electoral College if the presidential election became inconclusive and that election was inconclusive because Shehu Shagari did not get two-third of 19 states. So, we were all preparing for Electoral College election for Nigeria’s President. NPP, GNPP, PRP and the UPN together had the majority in the National Assembly which constituted the Electoral College. The late Mallam Aminu Kano of PRP, Alhaji Waziri Ibrahim of GNPP, Nnamdi Azikiwe of NPP and Awolowo of UPN had met to select a joint candidate but three days to the Electoral College, General Obasanjo removed the clause on Electoral College. That was why Awolowo had no other option than to go to court and the eventual court judgment gave rise to the issue of 12 2/3. M.K.O Abiola and General Obasanjo conspired to remove the Electoral College clause. Later, Concord newspaper published the headline “Maroko land: Awolowo where is your sincerity”. We, the members of UPN, were in Minna when Concord published this. This newsreport deflated Awolowo so much that he was no longer himself. Awolowo started battling how to best explain the Maroko land matter. Years later, when General Babangida came and set up two political parties, SDP and NRC, overnight the military disqualified both parties’ contenders for the presidency, again, aided and abetted by MKO Abiola. For if Shehu Yar‘adua were not disqualified, there was no way MKO Abiola would have won the SDP ticket, because Abiola was not even in contention, until the disqualification of these major contenders” “Yes, it is necessary to note that M.K.O Abiola’s death followed United States’ Ambassador Thomas Pickering’s suspicious mission to Nigeria. We should also note that after Abiola died, General Abubakar (Nigeria’s head of state) went to the White House to visit the sitting American President and he went there in his military uniform. Can you recollect anybody who’d entered the White House in military uniform? It is not done but General Abubakar was given that exception. How long had General Abubakar been in power before he was received by the American President? Whereas, the current American President (Barack Obama) has not found it important enough to come to the same Nigeria in which the previous American government played big roles in taking out M.K.O Abiola and General Sani Abacha. In 1998, Thomas Pickering’s delegation got to Aguda House by 3pm. According to his own press conference, M.K.O Abiola died between 3:20 and 3:40pm that same day. Nobody told Abiola he was going to have visitors that day. So, they woke him up and he just brushed his teeth and came out to meet with Thomas Pickering, Susan Rice and the rest of the American delegation. Abiola had not had his lunch. According to the Americans, their mission was to convince Abiola to denounce his (June 12) mandate and go for another election, a request he had long rejected to the full knowledge of this American delegation. When the Americans came in, the chief guard who usually stayed with Abiola was not there. Abiola came unaccompanied to that meeting. The Americans brought a special flask, which Hamza Al-Mustapha described as multi-dimensional. They poured themselves tea and then poured tea for M.K.O Abiola. There is no precedence of a visitor bringing tea for his host but the Americans offered, did so, and, offered tea to someone in detention, with no guard around. Ambassador Pickering later said in his press conference that shortly after Abiola had taken the tea, he complained of pain in the chest and grabbed his chest. And later, he felt uncomfortable and then, went to the convenience to ease himself, but he did not come back as expected. They called on him and he told them he was coming. By then, he had started feeling weak. They asked him if they should call the doctor but he said they should ask the guard to help get his pain tablets. But he died before the pain tablets arrived. By the time the doctor came, Abiola had already died. They took his body to Aso Rock clinic where they tried to jerk his heart back to life, but he was gone. That was how M.K.O Abiola died.”
Posted on: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:03:43 +0000
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