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RE-SURFACE: How MKO Abiola’s Death Was Announced On NTA 22 Years Ago

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The say history isn’t written by who is right or who is wrong, but who lived it through. So was the sudden death of nationalist and presidential candidate of the historic June 12, 1993 elections, MKO Abiola. The news of his death was announced on NTA by a veteran newscaster, Eugenia Abu, on July 7,1998.

One of the Twin daughters of Eugine, Oiza Meyi, who was yet unborn at the time, sourced and got the video and posted it on her Twitter account and wrote:

So I found a video of my mum reading the news in 1998 while she was pregnant for me and oiza. She told me this was one of her saddest days of being a broadcaster cause she had to tell the whole of Nigeria that MKO Abiola had died .

Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, also known as MKO Abiola GCFR was a Nigerian Yoruba businessman, publisher, politician and aristocrat of the Egba clan. He was the Aare Ona Kankafo XIV of Yoruba land.

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