Tag: MKO Abiola

IBB Brazenly Seeking To Rewrite History In His Feeble Days, By ADESOLA AYO-ADERELE

ADESOLA AYO-ADERELE

They don’t call Nigeria a football nation for nothing. If anything, our running round in circles makes the appellation apt, even if that wasn’t the real reason for the nomenclature. After all, IBB was called Maradona at some point. I watched with ho.rror as Nigerian politicians jostled over themselves to launch ‘A journey In Service,’ written by one of Nigeria’s most controversial rulers, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida [IBB], who held the nation spellbound from 1985 to 1993. I came into journalism in 1988 at the peak of IBB’s dictatorship and my…

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‘Weakling’ — Abacha’s Daughter Posts Cryptic Message As IBB Blames Him For June 12 Annulment

Ganiyu Amodu

Gumsu, daughter of the late military head of state Sani Abacha, has shared a cryptic post on X, seemingly responding to former military president Ibrahim Babangida’s claims about her father’s role in the annulment of the June 12 presidential election. In a one-word post on her X handle on Friday, Gumsu wrote: “Weakling.” She made the post amid the ongoing conversations on the book, ‘A Journey in Service,’ the autobiography of Babangida, launched in Abuja on Thursday. In the 420-page memoir, Babangida addressed issues about the annulment of the June…

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David Hundeyin’s Piece On MKO Abiola Poorly Plagiarised Old Rumour – Family

ADEOLA YUSUF

Abiola’s children mock Hundeyin, say name engraved in sand of fake news + Full statement. “I make bold to say that MKO Abiola was categorically not on the right side of history in his lifetime” – Hundeyin Insists   The family of Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola (MKO) has described the report by a Nigerian writer, David Hundeyin, on its late patriarch, MKO Abiola, as a poorly plagiarised old rumour from Daily Beast, an American Tabloid edition published in 2015. Hundeyin who described himself on Twitter as a purveyor of words…

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