Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Abiola’s family hails FG


Chief MKO Abiola
Two daughters of the winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola, have lauded the renaming of the University of Lagos after the late business mogul.
Abiola’s first child, Lola Abiola-Edewor, and Hafsat Abiola-Costello said the Federal Government should be commended for recognising the contribution of the late politician to the return of democracy in Nigeria.
Abiola-Edewor, however, condemned the protest by some students against the decision by the Federal Government to name UNILAG after her late father.
The two-time member of the National Assembly, who spoke through her Media Assistant in Abeokuta, Mr. Akin Alade, stated that President Goodluck Jonathan should rather be commended for deeming it fit to honour Abiola who had long been denied his rightful place in the annals of Nigerian democracy.
She said, “Nigerians had demanded several times that MKO be immortalised. What I cannot understand though is how renaming of UNILAG has generated such a controversy. University of Ife was renamed OAU and it has remained.”

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