A daughter of the late MKO
Abiola, Tundun, on Sunday said it was not by election that former president
Olusegun Obasanjo got into office in 1999.
She believes that Obasanjo was
handpicked by the then military regime, to compensate the people of the South-West
region for the death of her father, the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993
presidential election.
“Obasanjo was appointed the
president, he was not elected president. We did not have any election in 1999,
we had a coronation,” Tundun stated during an interview on Rubbin Minds on
Channels Television.
She made the comments in reaction
to the declaration of June 12 as the new Democracy Day and the posthumous award
of GCFR conferred Abiola by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Tundun also criticised Obasanjo
for failing to recognise her late father for his contributions to the nation’s
development.
“When you know you were not
elected, you know you were selected and just appointed president by the
military, it is galling for him to have acknowledged a democratic process.
“President Obasanjo and my father had a
relationship then; so what happened in their lifetime continued even after my
father was dead. He cannot bear the idea of Moshood Abiola – so he did not do
it,” she claimed.
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