The family of the late Chief MKO
Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12,
1993 presidential election, has called on the
Federal Government to declare him the winner
and pay presidential entitlements to his family.
The request was made yesterday by the head of
the family, Alhaji Muritala Abiola, at the
commemoration of the June 12, 1993 election.
The event, which was organised by the state
government, started with a Democracy Walk
from the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto,
Abeokuta to the Oke Ido ancestral home of the
Abiolas.
Muritala, who is the younger brother of the late
business mogul, said he deserved the
entitlement for dying for the enthronement of
democracy in the country.
“First, we want the Federal Government to
declare June 12 as Democracy Day. It should do
even more than that.
“ Ken Saro Wiwa died fighting over Ogoni oil
spillage, the Federal Government is doing the
cleaning up of the oil spillage in Ogoni land.
“MKO was killed because of an election he won
maybe it is you journalists or the Nigerian
government calling him acclaimed winner.
“ He is not acclaimed winner, they should
confirm him as slain president of Nigeria.
“MKO should be declared president. Although
slain, all the entitlements belong to the family,”
he said.
Murtala, however, thanked the state government
for keeping the memory of the late Abiola alive
by staging a Democracy Walk in the last five
years.
He appealed to the state government to return
the school established by the late Abiola; Salawu
Abiola Comprehensive High School, Osiele,
Abeokuta to the family to administer.
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