The former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has narrated how those he regarded as ‘bad belle’ prevented the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola from becoming president in 1993. Abiola was the generally acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, but the election was annulled by former military dictator Ibrahim Babangida. In his remark at the centenary celebrations of the Baptist Boys High School (BBHS), Abeokuta, Ogun State, Obasanjo stated that those who influenced the annulment of the election did that out of jealousy, Politics Nigeria reports.
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The former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has narrated how those he regarded as ‘bad belle’ prevented the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola from becoming president in 1993. In his remark at the centenary celebrations of the Baptist Boys High School , Abeokuta, Ogun State, Obasanjo stated that those who influenced the annulment of the election did that out of jealousy, Politics Nigeria reports.“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.
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