Former President Obasanjo describes Moshood Abiola as 'the first communication industry millionaire in Nigeria and the acclaimed winner of the 1993 Presidential election'
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says ‘bad belle” exhibited by Nigerians stopped the late Moshood Abiola from becoming the president of Nigeria.
Mr Obasanjo, before he was later thrown into prison by Mr Abacha for alleged involvement in a coup attempt against his junta, was also criticised for saying Mr Abiola, despite being considered popularly elected president, was not the “Messiah” that Nigerians were hoping for. “If not for Nigerian bad belle, M.K.O. Abiola would have been president and with me as President, we would have needed one more old student of BBHS to be president for us to permanently locate it in BBHS after three times”, Mr Obasanjo said.
“I must also add other distinguished old boys who were contemporaries of the first set earlier mentioned or immediately following them. Among these were Chief D. S.
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