By Ishaya Ibrahim
Tundun MKO Abiola, one of the ARISE TV Morning Show hosts, also the daughter of the winner of June 12, 1993 election , MKO Abiola, has said during a question to a guest in the programme that her father was killed.
She said this during a question she posed to the chairman of Middle Belt forum, Yakubu Pam, who was making the point that after the South produce the next president, the Middle Belt would make the claim for the presidency.
Pam’s position was contrary to the opinion of another guest on the show, Hakeem Baba Ahmed, who argued that ethnicity and regionalism should not be the basis for electing a Nigerian president.
Tundun then asked Pam what it would take for the Middle Belt to produce Nigeria’s president. She asked whether it would be ike the Killing of MKO Abiola that made the power to move to the South or a natural occurrence like the death of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2010 that paved the way for the South South to have a shot at the presidency. Pam responded without referencing the instances she made.
MKO Abiola passed away a month after maximum dictator, Sani Abacha died. His death was after taking a cup of tea offered to him by US diplomat, Susan Rice.
Rice denied that the tea killed him. An autopsy also reports that MKO Abiola did not die of poisonous tea. But many Nigerians still believe he was killed, one of them a former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode.