July 7 marked the 17th memorial anniversary of Chief MKO Abiola, a renowned entrepreneur and the acclaimed winner of Nigeria’s 1993 presidential election, who died while under a house arrest and in the presence of United States diplomats, Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Ambassador Susan Rice. BBC World Service revisited events that happened before, during and after the death of Chief Abiola.
MKO Abiola’s death remains a mystery, 17 years after
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