MKO Abiola's Arrest and Last Call to BBC

Chief MKO Abiola putting a call through to the BBC as he was being arrested by the police at his Ikeja home in June of 1994. That turned out to be his last interview.

Abiola died 4 years later, in 1998, while in detention where he was kept on the orders of the then military dictator, Late Gen. Sani Abacha, after refusing to bow to pressure to rescind his mandate given to him by majority of Nigerians at the polls.

25 years after 1993, President Muhammadu Buhari, the current civilian president has not only acknowledged that Abiola indeed won the June 12, 1993 presidential election fair and square, the president also apologized to the family of the late business mogul, and has awarded him a posthumous award as the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, GCFR, an award deserving of Presidents who have ruled in Nigeria.

Salute to MKO, salute to a symbol of Nigeria's unity!

Video credit: A video in memory of, and written and produced by 'Jide Olanrewaju

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