There are so many things that have not been said about all that happened when the June 12 election was annulled and when Chief MKO Abiola died. There was so much betrayal. For instance, when Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar and Vice Admiral Mike Akhigbe came in, they were confused by the responsibility put on them suddenly. They did not know which group to talk to. They invited National Democratic Coalition, which was about the first group that the Abdulsalami administration invited to Aso Rock to discuss how to move the country forward. They had the opportunity to tell the Head of State to release Abiola and restore his mandate but they didn’t do that. Instead, they suggested that Abubakar should conduct another election. If they were interested in Abiola’s cause, the first thing they would have done would have been to negotiate Abiola’s release. You could not be negotiating when your leader was still locked up in prison.

They betrayed Abiola. And that was why I was attacked at Abiola’s house during his burial. They knew I was going to talk. I was not attacked outside Abiola’s house, it was inside the house. I was knocking on the door where they were meeting when they sent Lateef Shofolahan with four boys, with a gun. They removed all the money on me and pushed me out, thinking that the mob would just take over. The mistake I made was to have gone inside. I would have just stayed outside but the Igbo people that stayed around the house insisted that I must go inside. They were saying, ‘This is the man we see every day here; he must come inside.’ When I got inside, they now brought in their own people, to come and attack me there. But of course, those Igbo people did not allow them. I escaped through the other fence. The young men that saved me that day, I didn’t even know them. They were young men as young as 19, 20 years. One of them, who was a mechanic to MKO, said he knew me very well that I should come, that nothing would happen.

So, there are too many facts that are not out there and many misconceptions. I thought I should let the man rest in peace, that in due time, I’ll properly put them in a book. Most of those people, who were claiming they were fighting for June 12, were making money abroad with MKO’s name. They made big money. They were not with him at all. They didn’t hide that fact that they were using him to make money. They said they were using him as a symbol of democracy. I will never forget that.

But why would NADECO members betray Abiola, considering that most of them were Yoruba and members of the Obafemi Awolowo’s political family?

You know Abiola was never their friend, because Abiola was one of those who made sure that Obafemi Awolowo never became president. He did that in conjunction with Obasanjo. He was never their friend so they can never be his friends. When we went to Owo, they told me I was just wasting my time that Abiola would never become president.

Yes, I’m telling you the truth. Abiola went to see Bamidele Olomilua, who was the Governor of Ondo State during the Social Democratic Party era. And Olomilua told him that if he (Abiola) wanted his support, he should not stop to see those Babas, that they were not with him. Then Abiola told me to tell them that he had an urgent call from Babangida and he had to leave suddenly. I told them and if you heard the sorts of nonsense they were saying, you would know they were not with him. If you look at it, most of them, who were in that house that day I was attacked, died violent deaths. Look at Bola Ige, how he died. Baba Abraham Adesanya himself; even though he personally apologised to me before he died. He sang and danced and said that now he was sure he would enter heaven; that I was the last person he offended; that he never dreamt that I would come to see him, but I came. Those of them who did not die have gone out of political calculation; they are no more relevant. Shofolahan himself has just been released from prison. He was in prison for almost 15 years, since Abiola died. And they will not escape; he and the other one, Hamza Al-Mustapha, will not escape. Their release is just for them to see more disgrace. They killed so many people. They will not escape.

What roles did Ernest Shonekan and Gen. Oladipo Diya play in that period, considering that they were two Yoruba people who held top positions during the crisis?

When Shonekan was there, we were still communicating with him, even from London. The British people will arrange for Shonekan and Abiola to speak. It was Shonekan, who arranged that Abiola should come back to Nigeria. I know because I was in London with Abiola and we did discuss and he did tell me that it was a matter of time that he was going to take over his mandate, that the British people were going to broker an agreement between him and Shonekan’s government. It was already arranged that Abiola should return, but before he returned, Shonekan had been overthrown and Abacha had taken over. I know the role myself and the Abiola’s running mate, Babagana Kingibe, and some other people played before he was allowed to land. They were going to prevent him from landing. He came with Air France and landed on the presidential wing and we all welcomed him. On the role Diya played, don’t you know that it was this June 12 issue that put Diya into trouble. It was because he released Abiola on bail. It was those NADECO people that told him to refuse the bail. They told him that if he accepted the bail, people would stone him at the airport. That was why Abiola didn’t take the bail. If Abiola had taken that bail, it would have been a different story. It was that his refusal of the bail that started the problem of Diya. Is it the man who risked his life to grant Abiola bail, who is hero of democracy or is it the people who were talking from abroad, gallivanting about that are heroes of democracy? Let’s forget the past, I just want things to be properly placed on records.

You see?

The truth done they come out.......


there shall be no rest in the wings of the wicked.....

God is using their own to expose them....

TylerDurden:


the Igbo people that stayed around the house insisted that I must go inside. They were saying, ‘This is the man we see every day here; he must come inside.’ When I got inside, they now brought in their own people, to come and attack me there. But of course, those Igbo people did not allow them.[/b]

I don't want to talk much....just how good and caring igbo people are..

they even wanted to kill their own......
but igbos intervened

Igbo is good.....

igbo amaka.

spit

Good read

One seed of truth is enough to destroy mountains of lies and years of propaganda.

Who is talking & who is being talked to here Whither the source?

Soyinka and Tinubu are Nigeria's biggest problems

Paperwhite:
Who is talking & who is being talked to here Whither the source?

Google Adefuye:

Blue3k

Complete trash.

Yoruba betrayed Abiola, yet he won with landslide in all Yoruba land.

Igbo did not betray ojukwu but lost woefully even in his backyard despite fighting all his power.

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Gabriel004:
Complete trash.

Yoruba betrayed Abiola, yet he won with landslide in all Yoruba land.

Igbo did not betray ojukwu but lost woefully even in his backyard despite fighting all his power.

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Soyinka, Tinubu, NADECO and some Yoruba obas betrayed Abiola



Deal with it

We have moved on pass June 12..

Will you people from the other side try and do the same?

The truth is coming out

GenSpecifics:
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Soyinka, Tinubu, NADECO and some Yoruba obas betrayed Abiola



Deal with it

Keep wailing. We all know how you all betrayed ojukwu.

Thought provoking