The major political cases before the Panel are the sensational deaths of three notables Dele Giwa Ken Saro-Wiwa and Moshood Abiola...
There was deep anger among the Yoruba after the annulment of the presidential election and the arrest of Chief Moshood Abiola who had won it and of the human rights campaigner Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti a member of the Yorubas' grandest political (and musical) dynasty; Kuti was alleged to have leaked news of trumped-up charges against a group of alleged coup plotters including Obasanjo...
Vol 41 No 10 |
- UNITED STATES
However the war between the pro-Abacha lobbyists and oppositionists backing the presidential claims of 1993 election winner Moshood Abiola surprised the Washington political scene...
When Babangida annulled Moshood Abiola's victory in the 12 June 1993 elections Danjuma joined the protests...
But that’s not entirely surprising when Obasanjo faced an improbable coalition of erstwhile supporters of 1993 poll winner Moshood Abiola in the Alliance for Democracy and the All People’s Party (dubbed the Abacha People’s Party because so many of the late dictator’s acolytes had joined it)...
They were both in the room when 1993 election-winner Moshood Abiola collapsed and died...
PC power Since the demise of millionaire Yoruba businessman Chief Moshood Abiola who won the annulled 1993 election and died in detention last July it has been politically correct in Nigeria to advocate a ‘power shift’ to the south...
Babangida has told friends that he has papers indicating Obasanjo's opposition to the late Moshood Abiola (the Yoruba millionaire who should have won the cancelled election of 1993) and suppport of the discredited interim government of businessman Ernest Shonekan...
Ibrahim Babangida's annulment of Yoruba (southwest) chieftain Moshood Abiola's June 1993 election victory (as it had privately promised) but in the eyes of the south-west it embarked upon a systematic project to marginalise the Yoruba from Nigeria's administration business and armed forces...
