Omoyele Sowore, one of the final presidential contenders, has made public a video of an interview in which he discussed his encounters with late Moshood Kashimawo Abiola.
“One thing is that I don’t have to be a minister before fighting for a better country,” Omoyele Sowore remarked. Late MKO Abiola gave me eight hundred thousand naira (N800k) when I was 22 years old, but I turned it down.”
“Abiola was surprised that I refused the money,” he claimed. Because of that act, he later wanted to accompany me out of the house while I was leaving. He stated that “I am a different boy.”
Speaking further, Omoyele Sowore said, “there was a time we were inside late Abiola’s big living room with other guests. After introducing me to them as the student leader fighting for his mandate, I told Abiola that most of the people in the room that day will betray him.”
Again, Omoyele Sowore said, “on that day, I mentioned their names and it eventually happened because some of them later became ministers under late General Sani Abacha even though they are irrelevant today.”
