June 12: What my father was doing when election was annulled – MKO Abiola’s daughter

June 12: What my father was doing when election was annulled – MKO Abiola’s daughter

Hafsat, daughter of the late Chief Moshood Abiola, has disclosed that her father, who is adjudged the winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election was already rehearsing his inauguration speech as the President before the election was annulled.

She said this in her vote of thanks at a ceremony in honour of her late father and others on Tuesday.

Her father was formally honoured as Grand Commander of the Federal Republic.

She said her late mother told her how Abiola was standing before a mirror to rehearse his inauguration speech.

“Because MKO Abiola was a stammerer, I was told he never went beyond ‘Fellow Nigerians’ in the speech,” she said.

Hafsat, while accepting Buhari’s apology on behalf of the family, also apologised to the President for anything Abiola could have done or said to hurt him.

The first son of the deceased politician, Kola, later led other members of the family to thank Buhari and to accept his apology.