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The Final Photograph: Chief M.K.O. Abiola’s Last Public Appearance Before His Death

The historic July 1998 image that captured Nigeria’s pro-democracy icon alongside Emeka Anyaoku and Rear Admiral Mike Akhigbe
A Defining Moment in Nigeria’s Political History

The photograph taken on July 1, 1998, in Lagos, Nigeria, captures a poignant moment in the nation’s democratic struggle. At its centre stands Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola (M.K.O. Abiola), the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election—an election widely regarded as the freest and fairest in Nigeria’s history.

Flanking him are Emeka Anyaoku, then Commonwealth Secretary-General, and Rear Admiral Mike Akhigbe, who served as Chief of General Staff under the transitional government that followed the death of military ruler General Sani Abacha.

This image, believed to be the last known photograph of Chief Abiola alive, carries profound historical weight. It symbolizes both the unfulfilled hopes of a nation and the courage of a man who became the face of Nigeria’s struggle for democracy.

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Op he wasn't presumed winner...

But the winner of the election. The other guy has a resemblance with abacha!

MKO Abiola was detained and died in Abuja. How was this picture taken in Lagos?

hisexcellency34:
MKO Abiola was detained and died in Abuja. How was this picture taken in Lagos?

Mods can modify it. I agree with you. It should be Abuja, not Lagos.

Money kudi Owo

Seriki goma, sanmani goma.

Two traitors on the right and left, while the guy in the middle was crucified

RIP Baba MOSHOOD KASIMAWO OLAWALE ABIOLA.

I remember June 12 like yesterday. The protest Along Ojuelegba, yaba,mushin etc that years back

gasparpisciotta:
Two traitors on the right and left, while the guy in the middle was crucified

How did Anyaoku and Akhigbe betray MKO?

Has zero similarity to Abacha except the glasses which are not even similar.

Abacha was my Number 1 Goon. Had nerves of steel even IBB feared him.

Mercilessly and fearlessly quashed Gideon Orkar's coup and told to IBB to come out when he could have overthrown him

Played a role in most major successful coups.... 1966 July Rematch, Shagari, Buhari and Shonekan removals. Participated in quashing all the major unsuccessful ones.

brain54:
Op he wasn't presumed winner...

But the winner of the election. The other guy has a resemblance with abacha!

gasparpisciotta:
Two traitors on the right and left, while the guy in the middle was crucified

Maybe the International Thief and Traitor, ITT in the middle deserved the crucifixion




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jptR_YwCs3o

45 mins later CIA assassin Susan rice will deliver the Thallium laced tea that sent this great man to to the great beyond , clearing up the road for CIA asset OBJ to be president

Hunger don wire am.

The poor soul.

Though Babangida said he annulled the election to keep a promise he made to Abacha, there was another rumor.

It was rumoured that Babangida might have kept some "large amount of money" in his family care which he refused to hand over.

I doubt this is true.

Only if he knew he was surrounded by traitors .. politics in Africa in the 90s is a mafia

The democracy we are enjoying today, it is the Yorubas that made it possible. Others from the east were singing praises of Abacha

FarahAideed:
45 mins later CIA assassin Susan rice will deliver the Thallium laced tea that sent this great man to to the great beyond , clearing up the road for CIA asset OBJ to be president

Nicely written script

When are you producing the movie?

FarahAideed:
45 mins later CIA assassin Susan rice will deliver the Thallium laced tea that sent this great man to to the great beyond , clearing up the road for CIA asset OBJ to be president

ITT was more of the CIA asset, more so Bill Clinton wasn’t having any of that nonsense.

DeepSight:
How did Anyaoku and Akhigbe betray MKO?

Maybe he is confusing the two men for Tinubu, the serial betrayer

Smaade:
What role did Bola Tinubu play in all of these?

At the very beginning, he was part of the Yar’Adua PF group from Jos. He was a senator then, and as far as the group went, we related. The crisis started post-election. When Abacha came, one of the things he wanted to do was to be the administrator for Lagos.

That is Tinubu?

Yes. I am sure you have seen pictures of him and my dad. He was hoping that there would be civilian administrators like we had under IBB but Abacha said no, that he was going to have military administrators. So he (Tinubu) said okay, in that case, can I be a deputy administrator? But Abacha said that there wouldn’t be deputies. Then he wanted the post of a commissioner.

He wanted to be a commissioner?

Yes. Then it was a choice between him and someone very close to Jakande who has passed on now. I can’t remember his name, but because Babagana was already in the government, that guy was picked as commissioner. But really, Senator Tinubu had lost out already.

Was Tinubu very close to MKO?

Yes, he was close enough. He and Adeniyi Adele, a very good guy, were close to my father. In fact, Adeniyi was closer to my father and more dedicated to the process than anyone of them. When my documentary comes out, you will see Tinubu’s take on issues. So once he lost out, automatically, he became a NADECO member and Adeniyi was incarcerated.

Source: https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/06/12/my-dad-victim-of-complex-conspiracy-kola-abiola/

He the foundation of Nigeria problem,

chiagozien:
Before Northern killed him

A northerner called Tinubu? Or what northerner betrayed him

anonimi:
How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals

AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.

Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.

The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.

In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.

He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/how-we-foiled-jonathans-effort-to-make-mulika-adeola-speaker-akande-reveals/amp/

blamingthedevil:
The democracy we are enjoying today, it is the Yorubas that made it possible. Others from the east were singing praises of Abacha

We have the likes of Obi that worked with Abacha but not all of our people were on the other side.

These were lots of Easterners with conscience back in the days and even till now.

chiagozien:
Before Yorubas killed him and shared his meat according to his son.

no, but Abiola is Babangida informer, he sold yoruba to Northerner, bcus of president post, he a yoruba betrayer, Awolowo lay him curse

Tinubu continued Abiola Legacy. How is it turning out to be? Abiola never believed in democracy all he wanted was power.

I can still remember the meeting they had before taking this photograph. They asked him to renounce June 12 mandate in exchange for his release. A proposal MKO rejected right away.

blamingthedevil:
The democracy we are enjoying today, it is the Yorubas that made it possible. Others from the east were singing praises of Abacha

Good example Daniel Kanu

muyico:
no, but Abiola is Babangida informer, he sold yoruba to Northerner, bcus of president post, he a yoruba betrayer, Awolowo lay him curse

Was that why he was killed by Yorubas?

richiemcgold:
I remember the meeting they had before this photograph. They asked him to renounce June 12. A proposal MKO rejected right away. Both Anyaoku and Kofi Annan have a lot of questions to answer

U said it with so much authority, it seems maybe u were serving food during the meeting?

Since u remembered so vividly?

I'm not sure this info is correct. This looks like a picture taken before he was incarcerated.

chiagozien:
Before Yorubas killed him and shared his meat according to his son.

Must u utter every nonsense u hear, must u bring ethnicity every time?

buckeyemedia:
U said it with so much authority, it seems maybe u were serving food during the meeting?

Since u remembered so vividly?

How old were you in 1998? Will like to know