Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Kola Abiola in Aso Rock during the Special National Honours Investiture for Chief MKO Abiola on Tuesday.
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Kola Abiola receives national honour on father’s behalf
Kola, the eldest son of late Chief Moshood Abiola, on Tuesday received the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) award on behalf of his father.
President Muhammadu Buhari presented the insignia to Kola after the citation for Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, was read at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Federal Government had last week conferred national honours on the late politician and two other heroes of democracy.
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The late foremost human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi and Abiola’s running mate in 1993, Amb. Babagana Kingibe, also received the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) award.
Fawehinmi was conferred with a posthumous GCON honour.
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Abiola’s sons clash over estate
Abdul Mumuni, the youngest son of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, late Chief MKO Abiola, on Friday accused his elder brothers of allowing their father’s landed properties and businesses to rot away.
He accused his older siblings, especially Kola, of playing god with the estate and other properties of the late business mogul.
He said: “I want my brothers, Kola, Deji, and Agboola to stop playing god with our father’s properties and abandoned projects and investments,” Mumuni said in a statement.
“I, my brothers and sisters totaling 40 children of Abiola are not fighting with them. We don’t have a bone to pick with them. But we need to step out of the past and of our father’s shadow.
“Kola, Deji and Agboola have been peddling lies in the media about my efforts to bring about changes to the dwindling fortunes of the Abiola family.
“I am ashamed just like my other brothers and sister to see that after MKO Abiola’s death, many of his legacies appear to be in shambles. No, it shouldn’t be like that. That is not what MKO Abiola stood for while he was alive.”
Abdul Mumini said efforts to renovate his late father’s properties were not self-driven.
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Kola Abiola regains groove
SCION of the Abiola family, Kola Abiola, is one Nigerian aristocrat who can be regarded as socially invisible. He is well known for his very private lifestyle, unlike his highly sociable late father, politician and business mogul, Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola who was reputed for gracing many high-octane occasions in his lifestyle.
Last Saturday, however, Kola took time out to honour Femi Otedola, his friend since the 1980s, who had his late father and former Lagos State Governor, Sir Michael Otedola, committed to mother earth.
Before then, Kola had not been a regular face in social circles, leaving people to speculate about the likelihood of his appearance at Otedola’s burial. Some said he might not show up at the ceremony, while others who knew how close Femi and Kola were, vowed that Kola would show up. It turned out that the latter group triumphed.
Even though the late MKO Abiola was a chieftain of the Social Democratic Party, the platform on which he contested the presidential election and won before the Babangida administration robbed him of his mandate, Kola was a regular face at the NRC-controlled Lagos State Government House while Sir Otedola held sway as governor between 1991 and 1993.
The dark-complexioned dude was seeing sitting with Femi Otedola during the reception party.