Would MKO Abiola Have Made A Good President?

can anyone point one successful business  mko had  and still functioning today. it shows what sort of president he would had been.

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I have no doubt in my mind that MKO Abiola would not have made a good president. Absolutely no doubt about that! But there is more to this issue than a-single-sentence answer.
The first thing I want to emphasize is the fact that a businessman is not the same thing as a Reverend Father-it seems some of us are confusing the two. The bottom-line of a businessman is profit maximization. Whoever expects a businessman to be a paragon of morality must be kidding. So all the arguments about how criminal Abiola was hold no water. I think those advancing this argument should tell us their favourite millionaire in Nigeria, especially the one that was/is not a criminal.
The second point has already been mentioned by some fellow Nairalanders, but still worthy of mention nonetheless. One thing that I`m happy about is the way MKO Abiola died. Who else can we describe as the Father of Democracy in Nigeria- if not Abiola ?  This is one feat no other person had been able to achieve before now. And this is one status that neither Awo nor Zik could lay claim to. I like that!
The moment that this man decided to contest a presidential election, a presidential election that the world described as free and fair, his past should become irrelevant. This is the side I find most unfortunate; the fact that the man that was poisoned for his mandate did not arouse our moral conscience.This says alot about us as individuals. If one is looking for a true criminal in the world today, Italy`s Berlusconi would be up there among them. Yet Italians embraced him having won their general election. But the evil mind of the black man would not make it possible for him to differentiate between the business interests of a man and his political ambitions. Very soon most of us that have been commenting here would go and start another thread on how to achieve democracy in Nigeria. The truth is that we deserve no democracy . What makes this thread more shocking is the calibre of people that have been expressing their thoughts here. I`m truly Perplexed!

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I don't think so!. . . 

Your first statement there already shows you do not know the man well. Abiola did not need to wear khaki to make his money. He infact made a lot of friends in the Khaki gang. He wined and dined his way into getting funding for his ITT project which was never implemented.

In College, Abiola was not top of his class infact his biography paints him more as a man from a poor background who could not make it through school but was able to build his empire up from nothing. Please stop making up things to claim you know him. The fact that we still write about him today only says that we still write about him today and nothing more. Accepting stories WE HEAR blindly is not enough. Please research persons before you make idols of them.  I am not in Nigeria to get you information on the man but here is an article online that can give you a better picture of who this was as well. http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/oduyela/092004.html


On the 1993 Election Annulment issue, MKO was IBB's back man until IBB decided to annul the election. Many people were sick of IBB and wanted anything else but IBB and Abiola happened to be the devil that we know vs the angels we did not know well at that time. I am not 100% on IBB's reason for the annulment myself but I do remember well and many Nigerians will remember that Abiola did not run on an anti-IBB ticket but as a friend of IBBm situation between the two went sour after the annulment.

which court found him guilty?

May be u don't know, Abiola made a first in his class at University of Glasgow check this fact. My friend, you and no one else confuse yourself check what you wrote earlier and what you just wrote now and the subject matter. Name Three top Civilian Millionaires who made money without the military boys? may be you are too far away to know the happenings here. Anyway you are entitled to your opinion. why don't you read article in print and not online. Its bad to castigate the dead.

1) Fact: Abiola graduated from University of Glasglow. This is mentioned in his biography. The first degree part I have no knowledge of and would appreciate it if you could provide us with information as to how you came to add that.
 Fact: It is possible to study at glasgow and struggle through it all.

2) Fact: ITT was Abiola's big break. He rode the Millitary ride to get the money he wanted through ITT. There are tons of documents in Nigeria for those who really want to learn of what happened with ITT and why it was a disaster and why it affects Nigeria to this day. I could get you books but I do not have access to data here. I do provide you links down here for your convenience. Now you can always come back with the Nigerian conspiracy argument that EB and Oxford press and all the others are against MKO but dude, e no go fly, LMAO!!

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O46-AbiolaMoshoodKashimawolwl.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/moshood-abiola

http://www.bookrags.com/Moshood_Kashimawo_Olawale_Abiola

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/nigeria/stories/abioladeath070898.htm

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9123780/Abiola-Moshood-Kashimawo-Olawale

I was too young at the time of MKO to know exactly what was up and I am not a politically inclined person, but from what I've read about him, I think he would have a made a good president. He had a human heart and was down to earth. He was popular even among the masses and since it was democracy, it would have been best to let us see what he had to offer the public who so publicly supported him.

 your ancenstors must be nuts, go and kiss the national grid if you have a problem with a yoruba being presidents

On the verge?? LMAO!!!! You mean we had not all figured that part out on our own? Why are you afraid of the dead?? No one has so far cursed him. He actually cursed his own self by his own actions while he was alive. I do not see why anyone should treat him differently than we treat people like anini who is also dead. I am not superstitious anyway so dead or alive, you reap what you sow.

some nigerians are very bad and have totally lost hope in their nation building. you are part of the society, contribute your own quoata and don't curse someone who has died.Abiola was on the verge to declare that africa was cheated by the europeans. MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE.AMEEEN

lol@on the verge,i guess abiola is a philospher now. maybe we sould place him alone socrates.

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Isn't this the same Abiola that vowed to eradicate Christianity from Nigeria and dip the Koran into the Atlantic ?
Well God heard him.
May soul rest if he deserved it
@ the poster,we can't answer the question,the man is now in the "mysterious beyond"

I read in one paper that during his imprisonment, Abiola affirmed the Messiaship of Jesus Christ. It was unbelievable, but I did read it.