The report that the winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election which result was annulled by the military government of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, the late Moshood Abiola, was involved in narcotics, is fake.
The family of the politician and businessman made the declaration on Tuesday in a statement signed by Yushau Olalekan Abiola, on behalf of all Kudirat Abiola’s children.
Late Kudirat Abiola was one of the wives of Abiola.
She was shot dead in the course of the struggle for the de-annulment of the June 12, 1993 election result.
Hundeyin had authored an article titled “Bola Ahmed Tinubu: From Drug Lord To Presidential Candidate” in which he alleged that Abiola traded in hard drugs when he was alive.
In its reaction in the statement, however, Abiola family described Hundeyin’s claim as unfounded, adding that it simple exposed the writer as a hack journalist who had engraved his name in the sand of fake news.
The family stated that the journalist was only “rabble-rousing and intended to drag the legacy of the acclaimed winner of the June 12 presidential election in the mud.”
It further noted that neither the late MKO nor his companies’ bank accounts were ever frozen as erroneously claimed by Hundeyin.
According to the family, Abiola was so respected and dignified that he was the only Nigerian to have been so far allowed to enter the United States of America without his international passport.
The family said it wondered why “the writer would stoop so low to have echoed an unfounded allegation that first appeared in Daily Beast, an American tabloid in 2015, where John Campbell who had concoted it could not concretely justify the rumour when he was confronted by the Abiola family.”
