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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