' He then goes on to refer to the government's claimed role in securing the acquittal of Major Hamza al Mustapha the Chief Security Officer to military leader General Sani Abacha who was on trial on charges that he organised the assassination of Kudirat Abiola wife of the winner of the 1993 elections Chief Moshood Abiola (AC Vol 53 No 6 Abacha's ghost and Boko Haram)...
He was sentenced to death by a Lagos court for plotting the murder of Kudirat Abiola the wife of the winner of the 1993 elections Moshood Abiola...
He was running-mate to Moshood Abiola who won the 1993 elections then served as Foreign and Internal Affairs Minister under the ensuing military regime of General Sani Abacha which gaoled Abiola as well as Gen...
This procedure was used in June 1993 when Moshood Abiola won; that election was considered Nigeria's cleanest ever; Gen...
Shehu had wanted Atiku to be Moshood Abiola's running mate in 1993 and regarded his choice of Babagana Kingibe as something of a betrayal...
For example in 1993 it strongly backed the presidential candidacy of Moshood Abiola who had been a generous contributor to Corporate Nigeria coffers...
Atiku and the Abiola option In the Atiku camp there is already talk of the 'Abiola option' as a fallback a reference to 1993 when many in the political establishment backed the late Yoruba business magnate Chief MKO Abiola for the presidency less because they thought he would win than because they felt he would be the most effective mechanism for removing a head of state with ambition to stay on in power...
Once it became clear that Moshood Abiola was winning Babangida annulled the presidential poll on 12 June...
Babangida's eight-year record in government includes failed political and economic reforms the annulling of the 1993 elections after the late Moshood Abiola had won them and gaps in the accounting for billions of dollars of oil receipts...
