(1937-08-24)24 August 1937 Abeokuta, Southern Region, British Nigeria (now in Ogun State, Nigeria)
Died
7 July 1998(1998-07-07) (aged 60) Abuja, Nigeria
Spouses
Simbiat Shoaga
(m. 1960; died 1992)
Kudirat Adeyemi
(m. 1973; died 1996)
[1]
Adebisi Oshin
(m. 1974)
Doyinsola Aboaba
(m. 1981)
[1][2]
Modupe Onitiri
Remi Abiola
[1][3][4]
Occupation
Business tycoon
politician
publisher
philanthropist
Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale AbiolaGCFR, also known as M. K. O. Abiola (//ⓘ; 24 August 1937 – 7 July 1998) was a Nigerian businessman, publisher, and politician. He was the honorary supreme military commander of the Oyo Empire[a] and an aristocrat of the Egba clan.[5][6]
Abiola ran for the presidency in 1993, for which the election results were annulled by then military president Ibrahim Babangida because of allegations that they were corrupt and unfair.[7] Abiola was awarded the National honour Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (GCFR), an honour awarded to only Nigerian heads of state, posthumously on 6 June 2018, by President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria's democracy day was changed to from 29 May to 12 June in his honour.[8][9][10]
Abiola was a personal friend of Ibrahim Babangida[11] and he is believed to have supported Babangida's coming to power.[12]
Abiola's support in the June 1993 presidential election cut across all geo-political zones and religious divisions, among a few politicians to accomplish such a spread during his time.[13] By the time of his death, he had become an unexpected symbol of democracy.[14]
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^"Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola | Nigerian entrepreneur and politician". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
^Hamilton, Janice. Nigeria in Pictures, p. 70.
^"UPDATED: Buhari declares June 12 Democracy Day, honours MKO Abiola with GCFR". Punch Newspapers. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
^"BREAKING: Buhari declares June 12 Democracy Day to honour Abiola". Premium Times Nigeria. 6 June 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
^"Posts tagged as #mkoabiola". picbabun.com. Retrieved 25 May 2020.[permanent dead link]
^Rufai, Misbahu. (11 May 1990). A man called MKO. Muslim Journal.
^Maier, Karl (2002). This house has fallen : Nigeria in crisis. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. ISBN 9780786730612. OCLC 813166032.
^Holman, Michael, and Michela Wrong. "Chief Moshood Abiola Presumed Poll Winner Managed to Straddle the Regional and Religious Split in a Way Few Nigerian Politicians Can Do Today." Financial Times, 8 July 1998, p. 3. Financial Times Historical Archive.
^"A thread written by @JoyLydia10". threader.app. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
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