KUDIRAT ABIOLA: 17 YEARS AFTER: A First Lady That Never Was

[Shola Sholaz]

This is not the democracy my mum died for — Hafsat Abiola-Costello KUdirat Abiola fell to bullets from a P 90 riffle, allegedly on the orders of the state. That death on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway brought a beautiful, brilliant and bold life, which Kudirat was generally believed to have lived to an untimely end.
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Aside terminating a promising and inspiring life at 44 on that Tuesday, June 4, 1996, a new chapter was opened in Nigeria's chequered political history, as the deceased became one of the prominent matyrs in the struggle for a truly democratic nation.
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This is why 17 years after the nation appears unanimous on the assumption that her death changed the course of the struggle for the enthronement of civil rule in the country, given that she has been made a martyr on account of her activism for the revalidation of the June 12 mandate.