Former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha,
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, yesterday May 30th, said he would soon reveal how his
former boss and the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 presidential election,
Chief MKO Abiola, died.
According to him, he would be telling all he knows about the death of the two famous Nigerians in his new book, Mustapha’s Memoirs, which he is still writing and would soon publish. Al-Mustapha accused some Yoruba personalities of being insincere with Abiola while he was alive and in detention.
“For instance, when Chief MKO Abiola was in prison, many notable Nigerians
visited him. They will visit him in the morning, and when they come back to the
Villa in the evening to see Abacha, they would say a different thing entirely.
On video “Unknown to these notable Nigerians, particularly notable Yoruba
personalities, who visited Abiola, their visits were recorded on video. I did
the video recording without their knowledge. These people would visit Abiola
and come back to tell government a different thing about him. These same people
would still go and tell Abiola a different thing about government. They are on
video. The agencies of government have these videos evidence. These same people
told MKO Abiola never to accept any compromise or negotiations. They advised
him never to come back home without his mandate. All these things are on video.
Of all the Yoruba leaders, only Oba Tejuosho told MKO Abiola the truth: to
accept the conditional bail and go home. Only Oba Tejuosho told MKO Abiola that
Abacha was his friend, urging him to reconcile with Abacha who was ready for
reconciliation. It was Oba Tejuosho who told MKO Abiola that he still had the
goodwill and would win if he re-contests after Abacha. What killed Abacha is
what killed MKO Abiola. But I would reveal that after my court case, still at
the Supreme Court. I would publish a book which has three volumes the
Mustapha’s Memoirs, which will tell what happened under Abacha and how he died”
he said
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