Until Abiola’s Killers Are Exposed, Nigeria Can’t Know Peace – Afenifere
MKO Abiola[/caption]
The Pan – Yoruba Socio-political Organisation, Afenifere, has insisted on the need to probe the death of acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election, MKO Abiola.
This was according to the National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, who said that Nigeria cannot know peace until the alleged killers of Abiola are unveiled.
Odumakin was reacting to former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi’s claim that Abiola did not die a natural death.
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Bamaiyi’s book titled “Vindication of a General” had suggested that Abiola was killed while in detention.
The former Chief of Army Staff had called on the then Head of State, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), to name Abiola’s alleged killers.
“For Afenifere, we insist on a probe of Abiola’s death; we suspected foul play all along,” Odumakin said in a statement.
“For an inner member of the military cabal to come out and say this, we insist that the Federal Government must set up a Commission of Inquiry into the death of Abiola.
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“Abiola may be dead and buried but his ghost will continue to haunt those involved in his death. This country will not know peace until Abiola’s killers are unmasked.”
