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June 12: MKO Abiola’s Family Won’t Easily Forget Aregbesola, Says Daughter

Taiwo Adelu by Taiwo Adelu
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Hafsat Abiola-Costello, daughter of the winner of June 12 1993 presidential election, Chief Moshood Olawale Abiola, has said that her family cannot forget the roles played by Nigeria’s current Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, in ensuring that honour comes the way of her father eventually.

 

She said that long before President Muhammadu Buhari came in as the President of Nigeria, Aregbesola, who was then the Governor of Osun, South-West Nigeria had embarked on what she described as a one-man campaign team which pressed for recognition for Abiola as winner of that election and indeed to be recognized as a former President.

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Speaking from Brussels, Belgium, during a virtual colloquium tagged: Africa: Interrogating the Leadership Question organized by Proumou Media Consulting, the Harvard-trained Economist said Aregbesola raised the issues with the then President Goodluck Jonathan who however expressed fears that there might be backlash if he recognized Abiola.

 

Abiola died on July 7, 1998 after years of incarceration sequel to the annulment of his electoral mandate in 1993.

 

She said at the colloquium, “There was a story that one of my siblings told me. You know that recently President Muhammadu Buhari honoured MKO but Ogbeni had been working on it. He had a one-man campaign on this issue for a very long time. And well before President Buhari was President, when we had President Jonathan, Ogbeni also approached Jonathan to make an appeal that MKO be honoured.

 

“I cannot remember which of my siblings told me this, but the sibling told me that they sat with President Jonathan and President Jonathan asked: “what do you think should be done and how do you think it should be done?” And Ogbeni offered his thoughts and President Jonathan said do you think it is possible because he had some concerns about backlash. So, it was not something that was carried out eventually.”

 

In 2018, President Buhari at a public ceremony, honoured the late business mogul declaring that henceforth, the country’s Democracy Day would shift from the previous May 29 to June 12 in honour of the late politician.

 

Praising Aregbesola, Hafsat Abiola-Costello said the Minister is one of her favourite Nigerian political leaders.

 

She added, “Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is one of my favourite people. I like his simplicity because when he was governor of Osun, I used to visit him and I observed that his life had some simplicity about it. And his wife, Alhaja Sherifat Aregbesola would tease me saying it was because she was raised in the North.

“And truly as my mother (late Kudirat) would say that people from South-West raised in the North have a different acculturation, gentleness, and an openness to other people.

 

“I don’t think Ogbeni was raised in the North but he is very much happy with poor people and it makes you to admire and love him.”

 

The Founder of Women in Africa also recalled that it was not only her father that Aregbesola was serious busy trying to immortalize, she said even before then, the then Governor of Osun had demonstrated passion in the construction of what is now Kudirat Abiola Way, Oregun in Lagos when he served as the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure.

 

She said, “I want to thank Ogbeni for neither forgetting my Dad and also my mother. You know that road, the Kudirat Abiola Road, Oregun in Ikeja. He was the Commissioner for Works in Lagos State that was responsible for that road. And this time around, I remember which of my siblings told me this story. It was Jamiu (Abiola) who told me that he (Aregbesola) would go to that road around midnight and find Ogbeni there with the workers …

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