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Late MKO ABIOLA’s Son, ABDUL MUMUNI
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He is a replica of his late father, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola popularly called MKO. Abdullahi Mumuni Abiola is the 6th child of late Kudirat Abiola, one of the beautiful wives of late MKO Abiola. He is an accountant and also a member of staff of NNPC as a retailer who settled in United State of America shortly after his mother’s death in 1996. He had his primary school in Nigeria but later had his secondary and tertiary institution abroad. He has a thriving company that specializes in Information Technology.
The gentle and amiable young married man who has been in Nigeria for a while now expresses his mind on the incarceration of his father after he won the presidential election in June 12 1993 and shared his views on the 18 years after he lost his mother during her remembrance on Wednesday, June 8th. “The June 12 struggle is not about my parents, it is what we are able to achieve as a people 18 years after her death. His utmost interest is in finding solutions to the problems we are facing now and not delving into politics. This and many more he talked about on air when he was a guest at Today on STV few days ago. He described his parents as being humble and how his mother made him to understand that money is not the solution to everything but a means of helping others.
In his words about what he took after his father”. He struggled to be heard and I am not use to that. What I did gain from him is that he was very humble and I think that is what I want to be, exactly just like him and how he was especially being so big, to me he was a giant, my father looked so big because there were so many people at my house coming to ask for favors and he was open to many people so that will be no 1 thing I got from my father’’. Talking about Politics in Nigeria will not be complete without mentioning late Abiola especially in this new dispensation which is the aftermath of what happened in 1993, Abdul also expressed his political impressions, “the struggle wasn’t only an Abiola struggle, there were so many people that were involved in the struggle. I think we should bring that back to the fore front, don’t let’s talk about Abiola or June 12 was about Abiola, June 12 was about the millions of people who came out against all odds to vote for Abiola. So I think we should bring this people out because if Abiola was denied of his mandate, I don’t think it should be a thing of shame for the Abiola family, I think it should be a thing of shame for the people who actually came out and voted for him. So 16 years later Nigeria, presently I think we have many issues that we were faced with that did not arise in 1993.
You have to understand that the decision made in 1993 that denied him his mandate is actually if you look at it now, it’s insane because injustice somewhere is injustice everywhere so it was a decision made that we were not going to give it to him and it was same people that made those decision that have been active in picking our future leaders. Where are we now? And they should be able to explain how they came about picking these leaders that have taken us from 1993 till now when the exchange rate of naira has greatly increased from what it was. So basically, Nigeria is in a worse off position so I think I am not here to blame anybody but why I am here is just to start to think about solutions because everybody knows, the fact that Nigeria has not had a revolution is not something people should say we have no reason yet but for people to say how do we change this and how can we move the country forward? I don’t think about Abiola that he died or that he has lost his life, I think that he put his life down for people to understand that life will be lost regardless of whatever you do”. Talking about what has been driving the legacy of Abiola year in year out and what we need to take from him specifically?
He cuts in “Abiola was not a Yoruba man in the literarily context, I mean he is not for Yoruba people alone, like when they say where am I from when I was in US, I just say I am Nigerian and that is what matters. We are all Nigerian and that is it. No matter what, he tried in the Yoruba side, he also tried to do it in the Hausa side and Ibo as well so what we are saying is, with everything that is happening now, insurgency, polity, lack of education and so many other things ,we should look for how Nigeria can move forward. I think being united would have been what my father would have wanted the most. The beauty of a country is the sustainability of it so let’s try to keep Nigeria together and protect the work which its future.
He has a striking resemblance with his father and when asked if at some point he will tangle into politics? “For me, my driving goal is to look for solutions. If I have to be in a position to drive those solutions home I won’t mind but the idea really is not about me getting into politics. I found myself in a position that I was actually born into politics, it’s so bad and I remember people come into our house sad and go out smiling so what I want to say is that as a Nigerian we should understand that, decisions we make today, we might not really see the consequences of those decisions now but your children’s children will see those consequences. Like now me, I can go anywhere in and outside Nigeria, I am not afraid, his name opens doors. Anywhere they ask me my name, its Abdullahi Abiola, the worst case scenario is they will say aah please give me something, and if I have I will give, you have to understand that my father made a decision in 1993 and he did not think that he will die, but at least you can see that the consequences of that decision allows me to be free even in my own country, I wish that for everybody.
All my attention is geared towards business. I am embracing that part of my heritage because my father was also a business mogul. Politics is a very touchy area that I just don’t want to meddle with. Actually, it seems that my parents fought for something that they believed in and they paid the ultimate price for it. They lost their lives in a cause that was not only supposed to benefit their own children, but Nigeria as a whole. I think that is a step forward. I am happy that, even if the leaders of the country do not want to take June 12, 1993 into their hearts, it will still be remembered as the day in which the people spoke out.
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