''What Killed Abacha Is Also What Killed MKO Abiola, I Will Soon Tell It All'' - Major Al Mustapha

Apart from Major Nzeogwu, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha has remained the most important Major of the Nigerian army in the history of Nigeria. You need not be told what that statement means! Lets leave that there atleast for now! 

Major Al-Mustapha yesterday said he would soon reveal how Gen Sani Abacha and MKO Abiola, died. He said this while speaking to members of the press in Lagos, where he insinuated, that what killed Abacha was also what killed MKO Abiola. He hinted that he is writing a 'Tell It All' book and that he will not fail to give a full account of what he knows about the death of the two most important personalities of their time. He also berated some Yoruba elders for being insincere with Abiola while he was alive and in detention.

In his words; “For instance, when Chief MKO Abiola was in prison, many notable Nigerians visited him. They will visit him in the morning, and when they come back to the Villa in the evening to see Abacha, they would say a different thing entirely. On video “Unknown to these notable Nigerians, particularly notable Yoruba personalities, who visited Abiola, their visits were recorded on video. I did the video recording without their knowledge. These people would visit Abiola and come back to tell government a different thing about him. These same people would still go and tell Abiola a different thing about government. They are on video. The agencies of government have these videos evidence. These same people told MKO Abiola never to accept any compromise or negotiations.''

''They advised him never to come back home without his mandate. All these things are on video. Of all the Yoruba leaders, only Oba Tejuosho told MKO Abiola the truth: to accept the conditional bail and go home. Only Oba Tejuosho told MKO Abiola that Abacha was his friend, urging him to reconcile with Abacha who was ready for reconciliation.'' 

''It was Oba Tejuosho who told MKO Abiola that he still had the goodwill and would win if he re-contests after Abacha. What killed Abacha is what killed MKO Abiola. But I would reveal that after my court case, still at the Supreme Court. I would publish a book which has three volumes the Mustapha’s Memoirs, which will tell what happened under Abacha and how he died” he concluded.