Opadokun, others received dollars from Abiola’s killers – Al-Mustapha

AbdulRaheem Aodu
Kaduna

Some Yoruba leaders, led by Chief Ayo Opadokun, were bribed in US dollars by those who killed late MKO Abiola to keep quiet, ex- Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (retd) has said.
Al-Mustapha, who was remanded in the prison for 14 years in connection with the mysterious death of Abiola and his wife, Mrs. Kudirat Abiola, said some Yoruba leaders knew the killers of Late Abiola, presumed to have won the June 12, 1993 presidential election.

Responding to questions from journalists yesterday in Kaduna after addressing Arewa youth and women group alongside Chief Ralph Uwaizuruike, leader of Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Al-Mustapha said, Opadokun led others to the Presidential Villa to meet Abiola’s killers, but came out laughing after receiving dollars, just a day after their leader (MKO) was killed.

Al-Mustapha, who claimed to have video tape on how Opadokun and others collected the bribe, said he had since submitted a copy to a Lagos High Court, presided over by Justice Mojisola Dada.
“Chief Opadokun is someone I respect so much as an elder, but what came out in the newspaper was his own imagination and falsehood against me. If you know my character, you will know that I will not be scared to say the truth.

“It does not matter who, it does not matter where, but you will later realise that I told you the truth. I initially didn’t want to reply him, but now that you have asked, I will tell you what happened.
“When Abiola died, a day after, he (Opadokun) was invited to the Presidency and he came to the Villa alongside his friends. He came with anger into the villa.
“Those who killed Abiola invited him to the villa. At that material time, they came to fight the government, they wanted to set the country ablaze, considering the tone they came with.
“They went into the meeting, they came out laughing, yelling and jeering as if nothing happened in the country.

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