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...Moshood Abiola's death has caused more problems for his military jailers than any it might have solved. As if to underline the point, there were riots across southern Nigeria Wednesday and Thursday, in which 45 people were reported killed, and General Abdulsalam Abubakar dissolved his cabinet. "The military needs to arbitrate Nigeria's massive tribal and regional tensions by promoting national unity," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "They desperately needed Abiola to renounce his immediate claim on the presidency, but also to start talking national unity and endorsing new elections...
Kudirat Abiola was no ordinary mother. For the two years before her death, she campaigned tirelessly for the release of her husband Chief Moshood Abiola from solitary confinement in a Nigerian prison. His crime: declaring himself Nigeria's President in 1994 after leading the vote in the June 1993 elections. Instead, the country's military leader, General Sani Abacha, who had seized power shortly after the nullified elections, imprisoned Abiola and, quite possibly, ordered Kudirat's execution...
...political prisoners." Foremost among them, of course, is her father. She hasn't seen him in nearly four years, but she hopes that when he is released he will be installed as President. A wealthy man who was criticized by some for being too cozy with business interests, Moshood Abiola has undoubtedly grown as a leader, his daughter believes. "For him, seeing how power has been abused in Nigeria, he's going to be a lot more sensitive to how it's deployed in Nigeria...
Grewal said the protest was a continuation of the activism of Hafsat O. Abiola '97, the daughter of Nigeria's imprisoned president-elect, Moshood K. Abiola...
...years later, I have just cosponsored an order before the Cambridge City Council requesting the city to decline any investment related to Shell Oil, which today underwrites the oppressive regime of Gen. Sani Abacha in Nigeria, where the democratically elected President Moshood K. Abiola has been imprisoned and his wife Kudirat murdered. Their daughter (Hafsat O. Abiola '96-'97) has asked that we join her in a human-rights campaign. I am prepared...