M. K. O’ 79th Posthumous Birthday Is Today

Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, CFR (24 August 1937 – 7 July 1998), often called M. K. O. Abiola, was a favorite Nigerian Yoruba businessman, publisher, politician and aristocrat of the Yoruba Egba clan. He ran for the presidency in 1993, and is widely regarded while the presumed winner of the inconclusive election since no official final results were announced. He died in 1998, after being denied victory when the whole election results were dubiously annulled by the preceding military president Ibrahim Babangida due to alleged evidence that they certainly were corrupt and unfair.