June 12: Hear what Abiola’s daughter said after IBB’s confession

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Hafsat Abiola-Costello, the daughter of late billionaire and political giant MKO Abiola and Kudirat Abiola, has reacted to former military ruler Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s (Rtd.) admission that Abiola won the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election.

Hafsat welcomed Babagida’s confession at the publication of her memoir in Abuja saying: “For those that kept expressing doubt that Nigerians had spoken so decisively on that day, I’m glad that General IBB’s admission that MKO won the election can now lay the matter to rest.”

According to the activist in a statement issued this Friday morning, “When anyone mentions June 12, my mind always goes to MKO and Kudi. But June 12’s staying power was because the vote that Nigerians expressed that day was a vote for a better future and for unity. MKO may have been the symbol of the Hope ’93 campaign, but June 12 was about more than one man, it was about the promise of Nigeria that would deliver for Nigerians.

“For those that kept expressing doubt that Nigerians had spoken so decisively on that day, I’m glad that General IBB’s admission that MKO won the election can now lay the matter to rest.

“It’s sad that such a galvanising statement as the breakthrough vote for MKO should have been truncated by an unjust annulment. But I will be forever grateful to both MKO and Kudi for not allowing their fears for their personal safety stand in the way of the people’s desire for a better Nigeria. May such commitment endure.”

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