I’ll soon reveal how Abacha, Abiola died, says Al-Mustapha

Challenges Obasanjo to public debate

...Says Yoruba leaders, except Oba Tejuosho,
deceived MKO
By Ikenna Asomba

Former Chief Security Officer to the
late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, Major
Hamza Al-Mustapha, yesterday, said he would
soon reveal how his boss and the acclaimed
winner of June 12, 1993 presidential election,
Chief Bashorun MKO Abiola, died.

Disclosing that Abacha and Abiola’s deaths were
from same source, Al-Mustapha said he would
make the comprehensive revelation in his new
book, Mustapha’s Memoirs, which, according to
him, is still in the works.

Al-Mustapha, who addressed journalists in Lagos
yesterday, on a number of issues relating to his
15-year travails in detention, said Abiola and
Abacha were very good friends before some fifth
columnists caused disaffection between them.

He said: “For instance, when Chief MKO Abiola
was in prison, many notable Nigerians visited
him. They will visit him in the morning, and
when they come back to the Villa in the evening
to see Abacha, they would say a different thing
entirely.

On video

“Unknown to these notable Nigerians,
particularly notable Yoruba personalities, who
visited Abiola, their visits were recorded on
video. I did the video recording without their
knowledge.

“These people would visit Abiola and come back
to tell government a different thing about him.

“These same people would still go and tell Abiola
a different thing about government. They are on
video. The agencies of government have these
videos evidence.

“These same people told MKO Abiola never to
accept any compromise or negotiations. They
advised him never to come back home without
his mandate. All these things are on video.

“Of all the Yoruba leaders, only Oba Tejuosho
told MKO Abiola the truth: to accept the
conditional bail and go home.

“Only Oba Tejuosho told MKO Abiola that Abacha
was his friend, urging him to reconcile with
Abacha who was ready for reconciliation. It was
Oba Tejuosho who told MKO Abiola that he still
had the goodwill and would win if he re-contests
after Abacha.

“What killed Abacha is what killed MKO Abiola.
But I would reveal that after my court case, still
at the Supreme Court. I would publish a book
which has three volumes— the Mustapha’s
Memoirs, which will tell what happened under
Abacha and how he died.”

On Abacha loot still being returned to the
country from abroad, 18 years after his death,
Al-Mustapha said he was shocked the first time
he heard of Abacha’s loot.

He added that most of what was today known in
the media as Abacha’s loot were mere media
campaigns aimed at smearing the late Sani
Abacha's image by local and international
persons he stepped on their toes while he was
Head of State.

... killer squad

Also, Al-Mustapha reiterated his call for a public
debate, where former President, Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo, would come to substantiate
claims in his infamous 18-page letter that he (Al-
Mustapha) was contracted to head a killer squad
of 1,000 snipers for former President, Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan, ahead of the 2015 general
elections.

Al-Mustapha debunked insinuations that the ex-
President, Jonathan, interfered with court
process to facilitate his release from prisons, to
enable him (Al-Mustapha) help train the ‘killer
squad’ or procure Jonathan’s success in the North
during the last election.

Al-Mustapha said, ab initio, he had no case to
answer but for the plots of his persecutors to see
him eliminated because he stepped on their toes
while he served as the Chief Security Officer to
the late Head of State, adding that the appellate
court acquitted him when it determined that he
had no case to answer on all the charges levelled
against him.

‘Obasanjo’s had his day’

He said: “Nobody contracted me to catch 1,000
mosquitoes under the Jonathan administration,
let alone human beings. I am Al-Mustapha. I
have my background away from the propaganda
peddled by the likes of Obasanjo.

“Obasanjo has had his day. I am doing my
investigation and I have discovered so many
things as to what made him (Obasanjo) make
such allegation. I have it. I will release it very
soon and that is why I have challenged him to an
open debate.

“Obasanjo is my senior in the force; he was a
former Military Head of State, but when issues
of law and rights of man are being discussed,
definitely equality comes to the fore.

“You cannot put an allegation against your junior
because you are a senior, and you believe the
junior would keep quiet. No, I would not. That
would amount to ignorance. I am not ignorant
about our laws.

“I challenge Obasanjo to an open debate so that
he can substantiate his allegations before the
whole world; but he is yet to oblige the
challenge.

“Thank God a new government is here today,
where he (Obasanjo) can bring up the issue,
requesting it to investigate and, if there is any
contract between Jonathan and I to catch one
single mosquito, I want to say that I am guilty
and want to be tried.”