Abdul Mumuni Abiola, one of the sons of the acclaimed winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief Moshood Abiola, fondl
Abdul Mumuni Abiola, one of the sons of the acclaimed winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief Moshood Abiola, fondly referred to as MKO, has alleged that his oldest brother, Kola Abiola frustrated a truce initiated by APC leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Osun State governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Dr Taiwo Afolabi and Wale Babalakin SAN. Mumuni recently went public with an outcry, asking Nigerians to hold his older brothers, Kola, Agboola and Deji responsible, should anything happen to him. He claimed that the trio were frustrating his efforts at trying to revamp his late father’s businesses 20 years after his untimely death.
According to Mumuni Abiola who opened up in a recent interview, he had sought intervention and advice from people he regards as mentors and people who have been friends of the family for a long time and other leaders in the Yoruba community.
“They were trying to talk to this man (Kola) and speak some truth to someone who is more like a son to them. The result we were getting at the time was not pleasing. It seemed like somebody was just hell-bent on keeping everything to himself. Look, I am very practical in things. I am not a madman. What I did was, ‘You don’t want to have a conversation with me? Fine’.”
With so many abandoned properties scattered across the length and breadth of Nigeria, Abdul Mumuni sought the consent and support of his other step siblings and step mothers and together, they began to find ways to rejig some of the abandoned properties that were not being revamped by his older brothers, in other to generate income. However, a particular property became the bone of contention between Abdul Mumuni and his older brothers.
“The property that was really in question is the property in Oshodi, which was supposed to be in the second phase of this Abiola Logistics and Transformation Agenda. We created Abiola Logistics Limited as a vehicle for my transformation agenda for the Abiola family. We were supposed to use that as the annex of Concord Newspaper and trying to see if we can get people to invest in renovating it and turning it into a cold room perhaps. We have heard that the World Food Programme would like some warehouse space; that would have been a perfect location for it.
“We are just trying to rejig it and change the formula in little ways to get the proper end results. I think that is the most important thing. I am not here to fight anybody or even make anybody look bad. All I am here to do is carve out a future for me and my kids, and in the same vein, also do that for my brothers and their families to build a future that we can all be proud of.”
In the interview, Abdul Mumuni revealed that he got nothing from his father’s will despite being one of the five children of his late mother, Kudirat Abiola.
“Due to the fact that she wasn’t alive, we did not get any money (from the will) for my mum’s legacy. So, the money that was prescribed to my mum, according to British law, if the person in question is not around, it doesn’t go to the children, and apparently, it’s null. So, I’ve lost a lot.
