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Born | Abeokuta, Southern Region, British Nigeria (now in Ogun State, Nigeria) | 24 August 1937
Died | 7 July 1998 Abuja, Nigeria | (aged 60)
Spouses | Simbiat Shoaga
(m. 1960; died 1992)Adebisi Oshin (m. 1974)Doyinsola Aboaba (m. 1981)
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Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola GCFR, also known as M. K. O. Abiola (// ; 24 August 1937 – 7 July 1998) was a Nigerian business magnate, publisher, and politician. He was the honorary supreme military commander of the Oyo Empire[a] and an aristocrat of the Egba clan.[5][6]
Abiola ran for the presidency in 1993, for which the election results were annulled by then military president Ibrahim Babangida.[7] He would later die in detention after making an attempt to assert himself as the elected president.[8] Abiola was awarded the National honour Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (GCFR), an honour awarded to only Nigerian heads of state, posthumously on 6 June 2018, by President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria's democracy day was changed to from 29 May to 12 June in his honour.[9][10][11]
Abiola was a personal friend of Ibrahim Babangida[12] and he is believed to have supported Babangida's coming to power.[13]
Abiola's support in the June 1993 presidential election cut across all geo-political zones and religious divisions. He was among a few politicians to accomplish such influence during his time.[14] By the time of his death, he had become an unexpected symbol of democracy.[15]
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