₦airaland Forum

joeargy:
120 children and 66 failed DNA test and u made it sound as ur father was holy,
Oga rest ur papa dey nack any how without sense

For someone that died at the age of 54 oh... I just dey imagine what would have happened if Abiola lived till 75 or 80. 😆

Nokio2:
Na so
54 child....
As Elon musk e for b 54000 or more

Plenty people betray the man sha

him too loud

ednut1:
cho cho cho. The DNA test was conducted by a uk based organization. Those that failed have you see any of them come to say it was fake?

See this loquacious upstart!
Once it was done in the UK, it must be fine!
The same colonial mentality that made you guys beleive the useless autopsy on Abiola made by a US company, when the man was likely poisoned by a US delegation..

Those who failed didn't complain? So how sure are you that they're not his kids? Were them kids there when the man was doing the do with their mothers? Were you or me there when Abiola was conducting the "strafing"??

Original cho cho cho cho passing the buck as usual..

dominique:
He held on tight to religion yet he entertained all shapes and sizes of women and having several illegitimate children with them. Is that a characteristic of someone that held tightly to religion?

@Dominique

You are being unfair to the brilliant chartered accountant and billionaire business mogul, Basorun MKO Abiola here. Read on to get a hang of my perspective.

Women have secretly been engaging in sex with other men while still being legally married or in so-called committed relationships for centuries and it's ONLY become a more prominent talking point because of modern paternal DNA testing technologies, including online and offline news outlets, so, MKO Abiola CANNOT be totally blamed here over the paternity fraud, BUT it's a lesson for all men and women. I will explain further with more evidence BELOW that will drop your jaws!

Indeed, YOU have to understand that you women all over the world are NOT prudes. Women pretend a lot (due to social conditioning) about their sexual needs regardless of religious beliefs, and crave for deeper emotional and sexual connections with their men. To make matters WORSE, women for centuries have naturally had monthly ovulation cycles which leads to them getting hornier. This is the period when women are very likely to cheat discreetly on their male spouses and it happens a lot due to distance.

This is what a lot of men (whether religious like MKO Abiola or not religious) are ALSO CLEARLY clueless about. The day I got to know this FACT back in the early 1990s about the female sexual psychology, I came to see ALL women differently and with some measured respect because just like us men, women are NOT logs of wood. So, men have to ensure that they are NOT too far away from their women towards the ovulation cycles because that's when the sexual energy gets activated to a higher intensity every month. It is what it is!


Second, another popular business mogul and Lagos industrialist (RO) who is Muslim did a DNA test for his children from one of his younger wives within the allowable 4 wives permitted in Islam back in 1999/2000 and this was published in the Guardian newspaper. It was found out that indeed, the last born male child through this woman wasn't his, BUT in his magnanimity, he allowed the boy to continue to live within his massive chain of mansions because he had developed a strong love and attachment to the then little boy before the DNA test. However he told the cheating wife to leave his house and divorced her.

It was after that paternity DNA test episode that he met and married in the early 2000s, his younger current wife (SO) who follows him around today despite NOT being the most senior wife. I will NOT mention his real names here to protect his family from some of these insidious bloggers and wannabe YouTubers, but if you think deeply enough, you will intuitively know who I'm referencing here.


Third, I once read how a supposed devoted Xtian wrote to a Nigerian agony aunt back in the 2010s seeking for advice after indicating HOW his wife cheated on him with a male neighbor when he went on a 6-months course outside his state of residence. On his return from that course, he intuitively asked his wife (who he claimed is ALSO a devoted Xtian) if she ever had any affair with any man after he traveled and DUE to a strong guilty conscience, she confessed to her husband that while he was away, the male neighbor helped her with school runs (helping to pick the kids from school) and that was how they both got closer and ended up making out and had sex.

The guy said he was emotionally devastated to hear about the secret sexual liasons that occured between his wife and that male neighbor BUT he had already planned to pack out from the residence with his wife and family BUT he told the agony aunt that as an Xtian, he had tried to forgive his wife but the thought of the humiliating experience kept disturbing him hence he had to write to the agony aunt for advice. For me, I wasn't surprised though, knowing FULL WELL that women are NOT prudes. Period.

descartes400:
It is irritating to hear people say that it's because of Abiola or that Nigeria's democracy is synonymous with Abiola as if prior to Abiola, there were no people fighting or who fought for the entrenchment of democracy in Nigeria.

I'm in no way denigrating his contribution.

It's the June 12 struggle that lead to democracy in 1999. Today, June 12 is a public holuday all over Nigeria. It's a day to honor all the heroes that struggled

After June 12 was annulled, a lot of people like Tinubu said "enough is enough to military rule in Nigeria".

dominique:
He held on tight to religion yet he entertained all shapes and sizes of women and having several illegitimate children with them. Is that a characteristic of someone that held tightly to religion?

Arteta has been preaching "trust the process" all these years, but makes moves that are contrary to this.

What are you yapping about perfection?

dominique:
He held on tight to religion yet he entertained all shapes and sizes of women and having several illegitimate children with them. Is that a characteristic of someone that held tightly to religion?

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owobokiri:
See this loquacious upstart!
Once it was done in the UK, it must be fine!
The same colonial mentality that made you guys beleive the useless autopsy on Abiola made by a US company, when the man was likely poisoned by a US delegation..

Those who failed didn't complain? So how sure are you that they're not his kids? Were them kids there when the man was doing the do with their mothers? Were you or me there when Abiola was conducting the "strafing"??

Original cho cho cho cho passing the buck as usual..

till date all DNAs done in Nigeria the samples are sent abroad for processing. White man didn’t stop Nigerians from building their own dna testing facility.

dominique:
He held on tight to religion yet he entertained all shapes and sizes of women and having several illegitimate children with them. Is that a characteristic of someone that held tightly to religion?

Being religious is different from being holy, righteous and doing God's will.

Risingblue008:
Na today?
E don tey when woman don dey scam man

Infact,
Eve never tell us wetin she and devil discuss for garden of eden

Wetin them discuss? May be devil self transformed and nack her, who knows? The bible did not record many things

ednut1:
till date all DNAs done in Nigeria the samples are sent abroad for processing. White man didn’t stop Nigerians from building their own dna testing facility.

Lagos State has since the Governorship of Akinwunmi Ambode had a modern DNA testing facilty where forensic and paternity DNA tests are done though.

You are indeed correct about the FACT that the DNA samples from those private DNA testing facilties are largely sent abroad to the UK or United States for analysis.

yummy001:
A big yes.. One can be extremely religious without being morally upright.. Religion involves following a set of rites and codes rigidly....Boko haram members are some of the most religious people in the world who never skip their daily religious rites and practices..
But they won't hesitate to collect arms and money from their political sponsors to help further their cause of mayhem and destruction in the society.
Same goes for a pastor who prays all the time but who won't hesitate to defraud his church member when it comes to a business partnership.
Religion has absolutely nothing to do with morality or being principled even though it preaches it.. You are the one mixing up the two because I have seen non-religious folks who are more principled, morally upright and compassionate than most religious fanatics.

Interesting perspective, but does the bold not conflict each other? How can one be religious and immoral yet some immoral acts go against the tenets of the religion? Defrauding someone is clearly against one of the Ten Commandments. So, how does it work?

Vasectomy solves most of these issues.

Ibehchizzy:
Yoruba women no dey sit down one place for house
Fff

STOP typing ABSOLUTE nonsense there! Are you NOT aware that the internationally respected Basorun MKO Abiola was ALSO married to non-Yoruba women? All over the world, paternity fraud exists in varying percentages with Jamaica, Nigeria, South Africa and the United States, etc, having some of the highest cases.

All his well-known older Yoruba wives NEVER engaged in paternity fraud back then. It's very CLEAR now that it was the most junior or youngest women associated with him (who he has assisted due to his philanthropy in the past to get out of personal problems) who engaged in such by pushing kids who were NOT his biological children forward after MKO Abiola's death as seen in the FULL article.

Gerrard59:
Vasectomy solves most of these issues.

How aligned is our culture with the idea of vasectomy?

Who will do the enlightenment work to change our culture in this regard

AfDapone:
Wetin them discuss? May be devil self transformed and nack her, who knows? The bible did not record many things

Are u thinking what I'm thinking


On dt last day,she go talk oooo,
Weda na toasting level or gbanshin,

treesun:
As Nigeria marked the 32nd anniversary of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, last week, Olalekan Abiola, one of the children of the late business mogul and politician, Chief MKO Abiola, the widely acclaimed winner of the election, spoke to Sunday Vanguard during the anniversary at the family residence in Ikeja, Lagos on the impact of the incident on the family and on democracy in Nigeria.

He also shared his views on the best way to immortalize his father among other issues.

Excerpts:

It has been over 30 years since the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election and over 27 years since the demise of your parents. How has the journey been so far for the family?

Honestly, it’s been 27 years of trauma, especially with my mother’s assassination. I am saying this because she was all the way with us at home when my father was in detention at that time. She was not arrested, she was not detained by the military junta and she was not under house arrest.

One minute my mom was at home, in good health, and the next minute she had been shot. So that was more painful, more traumatic than the fate my father suffered.

In my dad’s case, he had been locked up for like four years before he died, so we had been used to not seeing him anymore.

Four years before he (MKO Abiola) died, he was already in detention but my late mom was the one that we could talk to and relate with. All the time, we were on the phone with her a couple of days before she died. We were expecting her to come and see us in the US when she was killed. That was more traumatic than my father’s own, but equally they were both painful, definitely.

“But now that my mother has been killed, we were hoping that my daddy will come back to us, so that we will be able to try to rebuild our lives”, but that never happened. So it happened that, basically, due to June 12th agitation we lost both parents. So it is both painful.

How has the family been able to navigate through all?
Well, we’re quite fortunate that our parents educated us. So we’re all educated. So we all can work and engage in some form of business activities. Both parents were equally well-off. Even though my father’s companies have been hijacked by my older brother, Kola, my mother still left quite enough for us to be able to survive with. I won’t say I cannot complain, because I know that I’m better off.

What about support from your late parents’ friends, and family members
It’s (support) been here and there. Initially, when this current democratic journey began in 1999, we got some level of support but a lot of failed promises from officials of government who would promise to help rebuild my late father’s business concerns. They, Federal Government till date promised to pay the debts that they are owing my father to the family. They never did it till the moment.

How much does the Federal Government owe your late father?
I’m not sure what the figure is but successive administrations, from former President Olusegun Obasanjo, kept promising to pay the debts. They will always promise to set up a committee to pay back the debts but none of them ever did. My father had many outstanding debts accruing to him in several ministries. Ministry of Communications; there is one that I know of in the Ministry of Education because his companies supplied books and the Ministry of Defense. So these are the three ministries where these monies were meant to be paid from.

The Obasanjo government said they had to set up a committee to go and do an audit but they never did before they left office. When (former President Goodluck) Jonathan became President, the first two years, it was almost impossible to get to him and by the time we were able to meet him, it was like election time was approaching. So, he said I should not worry, that once the election was over and he gets a second term, it is one of the first things that he would do but he never came back.

Then, Muhammed Buhari came, he too didn’t act but he gave us June 12 Democracy Day. And maybe, he thought that since he’s done that he felt he didn’t have to pay us. Now that President Bola Tinubu is there, hopefully he is going to do the audit and pay off the long outstanding debts.

Has he (Tinubu) promised the family?
He has not said anything about it yet.

Do you feel betrayed by his (MKO’s) travails in the hands of his military junta’s friends considering their closeness?
I think that the main issue with my father is that he was ahead of his time in so many ways. I am saying so because, today, if anybody wins election in Nigeria, no matter the tribe, that person is going to be sworn-in. The worst thing they will tell you is to go to court. Once you get to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court declares you the winner, nobody can stop your swearing-in. So my father was ahead of his time, you know.

You see him more as a pathfinder
Yes, he was a pathfinder of some sorts because he was the first Yoruba man to win an election to be annulled in Nigeria. In the past, they didn’t need to annul elections which southerners contested but did not win, but MKO won and he presented some sort of challenge to the status quo who never believed that he was going to break all the barriers that had been placed before him.

This was a Yoruba man who, though was a Muslim with a Muslim running mate, was still voted for massively by Christians. He was a Yoruba man who defeated a Hausa-Fulani man in his home state of Kano. This happened because, MKO had spent so much time cultivating relationships the country.

And when he came out to run, he had support from everywhere. So I think that he was a victim of his own success. He was the first Yoruba man to win an election and he was liked by everybody. Yoruba only win an election in a free and fair contest in the country. They didn’t believe that. They were shocked. So he broke the jinx.

What are the lessons learnt from your late father
I think the most important thing I learnt from him is to hold on to our religion, Islam. I say this because this was what my father did that made people love him. All he did were based on Islam, which teaches us as Muslims to be charitable. My father never drank alcohol. He never went partying. He was not a party freak neither was he a gambler. The only thing you could say about my father that was kind of negative was that he had a lot of women but a lot of these women were those that came to him to give themselves to him willingly. Some of them came with children and said their husbands had abandoned them.

They usually begged him for shelter, school fees and even with food. They used to come and line up in front of this house every month to collect their allowances. My father would get some of them apartments or a house. Then they began to call themselves Mrs. Abiola, even though many of them were not. They would change their children’s names to Abiola and that was why my father wrote in his will that DNA test had to be done for all those who claimed to be his children.

About 120 children came forward to say they were MKO’s children but only 54 of them passed the DNA test at the end of the day (meaning 66 failed). So it was these women who were the ones coming to him and not him going around looking for them. When my father was alive back then, we saw women outside the house everyday.

About 10 to 15 different women, with different shapes and complexion, would come to see him for one thing or the other everyday. I think the main lesson I learnt from my dad was holding fast to religion.

So he was very religious…
He was very religious. And he raised us to be very religious. He raised us to pray five times a day and engage in charity which we call Sadaka in Islam. He used to say “I am not carrying this money anywhere. So let me just help people”. And he believed that the more he helped people, the more Allah helped him. Look at how he won the June 12, 1993 election, Allah helped him and even now. The man has been dead for 27 years, yet Nigerians are still bringing his memory back to life as if he died two weeks ago.

Does that really give you any kind of joy?
Of course yes! I am really happy for him. Because how many Nigerians do something or how many people did something meaningful in life and after they have died, people are still remembering what they did? It is incredible. So I am happy for him.

Your view on efforts by governments at the Federal and Ogun State levels to immortalise him

It means that every year Nigerians will have to remember the struggles of those who brought about the current democracy that everyone in the country is enjoying now for which my father and my mother paid the supreme price. So, that is really important for me as their son who is personally feeling the impact of their struggle which have helped us collectively.

Another thing I want them to do is that they should acknowledge that he was actually an elected president that the people of Nigeria freely and fairly voted for to lead them. To properly immortalize him, I am calling on government to consider giving him the honour of putting his picture in the Presidential Villa among the pictures of past Nigerian presidents who served the country in the past.

This is even more so if people like former Head of State Sani Abacha or General Babangida who were never elected by the people but came into power through military coups have their pictures there as former Heads of State. When you even consider the fact that Chief Shonekan who was even an interim head of state is enjoying the same privilege, then the question would now be, why not MKO who was elected by Nigerians should not have his picture displayed in Aso Rock? Another appeal that I am making to the government is that all the allowances and benefits that should have accrued to him as the president of the country be paid to the family in full like the entitlements that are being paid to former leaders should also be awarded to his family as a form of compensation.

And any debt the Federal Government owes him should also be paid to the family. That is I think the least that the family can ask the government to do. The government should do something to make sure that MKO’s legacy is carried out in accordance to the Nigerian law. The Nigerian government should help make sure that his will is implemented according to the Nigerian law.

What is the plan to bring family members together?
Brother Kola ordinarily ought to be the leader for all the children of the late MKO. He should be the leader of all the children. But what he is doing right now? He is the leader of his mother’s children. So Kola has not been able to bring us all together, he has been unable to do so for whatever reason to step into the role. He seems to only care about his own mother’s kids. The issue is that Brother Kola has not shown proper leadership in bringing other children together.

Your opinion on impacts of June 12 struggle on the country’s democracy
I am happy that this has been the longest span in terms of our democratic attempts. As a country, we have celebrated 26 years of unbroken democratic rule which had never happened before. In the past, the longest span had been five years. Again, unlike what had obtained in the past, nobody is going to dominate the others like we used to have.

No tribe is dominating any other tribe. Next time the presidency comes to the South, it should go to the South-East because they have not gotten it yet. So the next one now we are going to support hopefully somebody from the South-East. There is more equity in the system now than what it used to be.
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/06/66-abiolas-children-failed-dna-test/

What are the lessons learnt from your late father
I think the most important thing I learnt from him is to hold on to our religion, Islam. I say this because this was what my father did that made people love him. All he did were based on Islam, which teaches us as Muslims to be charitable. My father never drank alcohol. He never went partying. He was not a party freak neither was he a gambler. The only thing you could say about my father that was kind of negative was that he had a lot of women but a lot of these women were those that came to him to give themselves to him willingly. Some of them came with children and said their husbands had abandoned them.

They usually begged him for shelter, school fees and even with food. They used to come and line up in front of this house every month to collect their allowances. My father would get some of them apartments or a house. Then they began to call themselves Mrs. Abiola, even though many of them were not. They would change their children’s names to Abiola and that was why my father wrote in his will that DNA test had to be done for all those who claimed to be his children.

About 120 children came forward to say they were MKO’s children but only 54 of them passed the DNA test at the end of the day (meaning 66 failed). So it was these women who were the ones coming to him and not him going around looking for them. When my father was alive back then, we saw women outside the house everyday.

About 10 to 15 different women, with different shapes and complexion, would come to see him for one thing or the other everyday. I think the main lesson I learnt from my dad was holding fast to religion.




Indeed, I read the full article which MUST have been ORIGINALLY 2-pages long in the newspaper and the respected chartered accountant and billionaire business mogul, Basorun MKO Abiola was a VERY wise man to have stated CLEARLY in his WILL that everyone of those who would be coming out in the future to claim they are his children MUST be tested via paternal DNA tests. His (MKO Abiola's) intuition was accurate as about 120 children in total came forward after he passed on and ONLY 54 came out positive as his biological children. Women have been known to DELIBERATELY and unintentionally transfer other men's babies to their spouses or fiance's for centuries and decades now.

So contrary to some of the knee-jerk assumptions of some posters here who didn't read the interesting FULL newspaper article, MKO was NOT a dunce who could easily be fooled by women or anybody who tried to cheat him. He was qualified to indeed lead Nigeria as President.


Second, Olalekan Abiola CLEARLY made a historical mistake there in his interview. Alhaji Bashir Tofa who contested the Presidential election on June 12 1993 under the NRC political party was NOT a Hausa or Fulani BUT a Kanuri man [and his Kanuri facial scarification is there to see just like that of the highly corrupt military dictator Abacha] whose forebears migrated from Borno State to Kano. There are many folks in Kano State from different parts or ethnic groups of Nigeria and even Niger Republic and Mali who settled down in Kano decades ago and are now claiming to be indigenes.

The former Governors of Kano State such as Barkin Zuwo of the "Pepsi, Fanta, and Coca Cola" fame of the early 1980s was of Nupe descent from Niger State and NOT an indigenous Hausa man from Kano State, the former Governor Shekarau is of the Bura ancestry of Borno State (same as General Buratai who is ALSO a Bura man NOT a Kanuri), the Isiaku-Rabiu family (who have a Forbes-listed USD billionaire Abdulsamad Isiaku-Rabiu) are of direct Kanuri descent through their male ancestor who came to Kano as an Islamic scholar, the Yakasai family of Kano are of Jukun descent, there are several Yorubas from trading families who settled in due to long-distance trading activities in Kano or Katsina States for instance for over 100 years now and have become Hausanized Yorubas, so unless you are told, you would NOT easily know, etc.

Tinubu the coward that ran away during nadeco period and the struggle for democracy has more monument in his name than the actual Hero of democracy Abiola.

FriendsAndFans:
Having multiple Women is no Way against religion.
Infact the Bible and Quran encourage having all shapes and sizes of women

Hope you know the meaning of "encourage"

Show me where bible encouraged it

dominique:
He held on tight to religion yet he entertained all shapes and sizes of women and having several illegitimate children with them. Is that a characteristic of someone that held tightly to religion?

His religion encouraged him to have many wives

Finchmgh:
Abiloa had nothing good to offer as a leader.
Thank God he was never declared and sworn in as the president.

A womaniser and a wayward man can never be an effective leader.

If he had become the president, he would’ve finished Nigeria. Who knows how many more women he would’ve impregnated!! Genghis Khan would be jealous of MKO and even King Solomon who had lots of women didn’t have as many children.
He was a real Y demon.

perdollar:
A man that can't control his gbola wanted to control Nigeria

If he was finally crowned King of Nigeria, him doings for the rub shoulders with king solo own💯💯💯

Starz825:
Abi na women dey throw their selves out to am.
You no reason am that way ..

Abiola Fathered 3 kids with his own Junior Brothers Wife
It was when I heard the story that I accepted
that God Almighty didn't want him to be president.
Though I still supported the June 12 struggle
to get rid of Military rule .

Wealth made Abiola loose his Omoluabi
(Integrity)

esnbrutality:


Benevolent savior of Yorubaland according to propagandists.

and he ended up having illegitimate offsprings up and down that upto 65 of them aren't his


Is it that their mum the yorubas wives have hot pants

Starz825:
Abi na women dey throw their selves out to am.
You no reason am that way ..

that why many of the yoruba men I know hate marrying yoruba ....cos of issues like this....in case of DNA

kettykin:
Imagine he became the president. Nigerians don't know what God saved them from

The yrjapep}e gae a way of prese ring peppe of questionable characters to lead thm ms that why tgie states are luke thata and they will love to die in lavos thy was built by every Nigerian

dominique:
He held on tight to religion yet he entertained all shapes and sizes of women and having several illegitimate children with them. Is that a characteristic of someone that held tightly to religion?

Having more than 50 kids and having more than one wife is a serious headache, I agree that he was wealthy back then but still that doesn't make any sense.

Nokio2:
Na so
54 child....
As Elon musk e for b 54000 or more

Plenty people betray the man sha

The biggest betrayal was the Nigerian government that still refused to pay his family all the monies owed him.

dominique:
He held on tight to religion yet he entertained all shapes and sizes of women and having several illegitimate children with them. Is that a characteristic of someone that held tightly to religion?

No different from the great men of god in your scripture King David, & King Solomon who Jehovah loved more than others.

Difrent:
The biggest betrayal was the Nigerian government that still refused to pay his family all the monies owed him.

Ok maybe the great Fela was ignorant when he claimed all na over inflated contracts abi?

ITT (International Thief Thief).

favor914:
Ok maybe the great Fela was ignorant when he claimed all na over inflated contracts abi?

ITT (International Thief Thief).

Leave matter for Mathias

No court has proven that he stole, so legally, the FG is still owing him

ariesbull:
and he ended up having illegitimate offsprings up and down that upto 65 of them aren't his


Is it that their mum the yorubas wives have hot pants

You didn't read the article if not you will see where the son clearly stated that women of all sorts are always around their house, some came for help, others for accomodations and many because their husbands sent them away...... He helped many of them and that made some of them change their children's name to his, hence the reason he made clear in his will that DNA should be conducted to prove his real children