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...For a better society... Wednesday, August 04 2004 Vol 17 No.30 News Editorial Politics Opinion Features Foreign News The Arts Sports Education Business Money/Market Travels/Tourism Property/Environment Columnists Abiola family fails to meet over IBB KOLA ADEPOJU, Abeokuta A crucial meeting of members of the family of the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola called to take a common position on overtures made to them by agents of former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida over the 2007 presidential polls, failed to hold yesterday. None of the family members turned up. Indeed, immediate younger brother of the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Alhaji Mubashiru Abiola who said last Monday that the meeting would hold in his Gaa-Sabo, Abeokuta, Ogun State-residence, was nowhere to be found. Anxious newsmen, who hung firmly on the younger Abiola’s words, yesterday kept vigil at the house, and that of the late Chief Abiola at Oke-Agbo, also in Abeokuta, from 9.00 a.m. later left disappointed at about 4.30 p.m. to no avail. But a member of Mubashiru’s household who attended to Daily Champion when he called, disclosed that he (Mubashiru) left a message around 8.00 a.m. when he left home that he was going for a crucial meeting. His security guard, who also confirmed the message, added that his boss did not disclose the nature of the meeting or where it was holding. Last Saturday Mubashiru accepted an offer by a group, IBB Vision 2007, spearheading the 2007 presidential quest of Gen. Babangida, to be their patron. He followed the gesture up by saying that he owed nobody any apologies for his support for Gen. Babangida, adding, however, that he did not collect "any kobo" from the General before taking the position. But, two Yoruba youth groups, at a joint news conference in Abuja, Monday, blasted Mubashiru for agreeing to serve Gen. Babangida’s political interest. Reminding him that it was the General who annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential election which sparked off a political logjam until Abiola died in detention, the groups, Council of Yoruba Youths (CYY) and Oodua Youth Federation (OYF) alleged that Mubashiru was "a disgrace to the nation, a disgrace to his family and by extension, the Yoruba nation." They said "even if all the Abiola family adopts IBB’s candidature, this will not stop the vehement resistance of the Yourba people and Yoruba youths in particular to any family or individual that is going to campaign openly for the IBB candidature. As journalists waited for hours for the meeting to hold, calls made to Mubashiru’s phone failed to go through. � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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