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Posted: at 12-06-2013 01:14 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

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Posted: at 12-06-2013 10:08 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

This is the first time a detailed analysis of the issues leading to the June 12, 1993, election and detention and subsequent controversial death of the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola, winner of the election, is outlined by an insider who is very close to both Abiola and late Sani Abacha to know the secret details. Below is Dr Ore Falomo, Abiola's
personal physician's exposé. It is a
must read... Can you recall your last meeting with M.K.O Abiola. When was it, and what was the state of his health? It was about two weeks before he
died. But the visit before the last was
more remarkable. It was arranged by
the military government to dispel the
rumour that Abiola had died in
detention. They quickly arranged a meeting for me to go and see him. They sent one captain from Aso Rock
to me to tell me that I was needed
urgently in Aso Rock. This was the
penultimate meeting to the last
meeting with him. I found the
message strange because my previous meetings were arranged by
the commissioner of police in Abuja,
under whom Abiola was supposed to
be. Whenever I visited him, I usually
returned to Lagos by 6pm, but that
day, it was not possible because immediately I got into the car, they
started driving round Abuja to waste
time so that it would be dark and I
won't recognise where they were
taking me to. When we got to the place, Abiola was
there. It was a new place; I had not
seen him there before. It was a
bungalow. As soon as they opened
the door and Abiola saw me, he came
towards me and we hugged. We sat and unlike before, none of the guards
waited to listen to our discussion. We
spoke Yoruba all the time. They
objected to it at first, later on they
agreed. That day he was behaving
like he was in the spirit. I told him there was a rumour that he had been
killed. He said, 'I know that I'm dead.
They have dug the grave. They have
put me in the grave except that they
have not close me up.' I asked, 'What
happened? Have they injured you or injected you?' He said no, but that he
just knew. That means he had the premonition that he was going to die in detention. Yes. As he was talking, his mood
changed. He told me he had forgiven
those who caused his incarceration;
that it was left for them to ask for
forgiveness from God. He said he
forgave them because he wants God to forgive him his sins. All these were
strange, because in my previous
visits, he was always asking about the
things that were happening in the
country. Then he started singing,
'Nearer my God to thee, nearer to thee.' He used to sing Christian songs.
After signing the song in English, he
started singing it in Yoruba. Then he
got up; hugged me and we began to
cry. It was very emotional. I tried to
calm him down, because I didn't know what he had seen. All through
this period, the guards did not come
to say time was up. I told him I will tell
the story to the people, which was
normal after every visit. But did you observe any sign or symptoms of illness in him? No. He was neither sick nor injured.
You could say his spirit was low, but
his body was good. There were no
signs and symptoms of any illness. He
spoke from a very conscious mind.
That was the most poignant visit. The last visit was routine; to change his
toiletries and so on. The then Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, recently told us that when he visited Abiola few days to his death, he was in high spirits, because he was happily awaiting his release. How did he overcome the depression? About two weeks to Abiola's death,
Abdulsalami Abubakar had started to
send out word that Abiola might be
released. So, the whole town started
to rejoice. I don't know how that one
was done. They even got to me and said my trips to Abuja would soon
end. I knew the government was not
going to try him. Chief Rotimi Williams
had already told us that they did not
have any evidence against him. There
was no point going to court. As far as I knew, Abiola knew that they would
not allow him to come out just like
that since they would not take him to
court. Every time, they were asking
him to denounce his mandate and
prepare himself for another election, but he refused. During my last visit, I
told him I had the rumour that
Abubakar will release him but I did
not want him to believe the rumour
until there was concrete evidence. How did you receive the news of his death? That day, I was in the sitting room
here. A call came from the personal
physician of Abubakar. He said,
'Doctor, get yourself ready and start
coming to Abuja. The Head of State
has sent his personal jet through Governor Buba Marwa, it would be at
the VIP section of the airport.' Of
course, I was not going to enter that
aircraft. But I asked him, 'Why are you
sending for me? I was given about
two weeks appointment to come and see Abiola, so tell me what has
happened that warrants me to come
urgently.' He didn't want to tell me
that Abiola had died, so that my
reaction would not be, 'Alright if you
have killed him; eat him. I'm not the doctor for the dead, but for the living.'
That could have been my reaction,
which was exactly my reaction when
I finally learnt that he had died. After
that, I called Kola Abiola and told him
that something bad had happened but that I didn't know the extent. The
doctor also told me not to come
alone; that I should bring any of my
colleagues. I then thought, maybe he
had not died. I told Kola and he said,
'Doctor let's go to the airport and take the plane to Abuja.' I didn't know
Kola had heard. We boarded Kola's
car and he tuned to BBC news. At that
time, it was about 15 minutes to 6pm.
Then they announced that Abiola had
died. I asked Kola, 'Is that true?' He wasn't crying, I knew he had heard. I
told him to turn back. And just before
we got to Maryland, people had
started rioting. We were lucky to
escape without the car being
damaged. Did you eventually go to Abuja that day? I refused to go. When we got back to
the house, Kola asked me: 'What is
going to happen next?' I said,
'Nothing; I'm not going to Abuja.'
Then he said he must go. I said 'Yes;
go so that you take care of the body. One thing I want you to tell them is
that they must not bury him because he is a Muslim. There must be a post-
mortem.' They were already talking to
Abiola's two wives about burying him
immediately.
REVELATION!
They arranged for them [the two wives] to come and see Abiola the
day before he died. That was of
course for them to say goodbye. They
did all of these without my
knowledge. Up till that time, I was the
only one in five years, who was allowed to see Abiola.
Then I received another call. This time,
the governor of Lagos, Marwa, said I
should come, that the pilot and others
were waiting, that he would send a
car to pick me. I declined the offer and asked them to wait. I called Prof.
Oye Adeniran to represent me. I told
him to tell Abubakar's physician that I
want a post-mortem. When the doctor
heard my request, he then called me
back and said he would advise Abubakar that there must be a post-
mortem. Then he said, 'These are two
deaths too many.' He was referring to
the death of Sani Abacha and that of
Abiola. You remember in Abacha's
case, there was no post-mortem. How can a Head of State die so suddenly
and he was hurriedly buried without
a post-mortem. I told him that I would
assemble a team of international
pathologists to conduct the post-
mortem. So, the body was embalmed and kept in the morgue waiting for
the pathologists to arrive. Some said Abiola was beaten to
death, others said he was poisoned.
As his doctor and member of the team
that conducted the post-mortem,
what were your findings?Abiola was
not beaten. He died shortly after the American delegation got to Aguda
House by 3pm. According to the
written press conference given by
Ambassador Thomas Pickering, who
led the American delegation, Abiola
died between 3:20 and 3:40pm that day. Nobody told Abiola that he was
going to have visitors that day. So,
they woke him up and he just
brushed his teeth and came out to
meet with them. He had not had his
lunch. These were facts borne out of the autopsy. His intestine was clear.
They exchanged banters, he told
Susan Rice, who was part of the
delegation, what she wore the first
day he met her. Pickering said
Abiola's brain must be sharp to remember all that.
According to them, their mission was
to convince Abiola to denounce his
mandate and go for another election.
By then Abacha had gone, one of
their problems had been solved. Abiola was left.
They had brought that suggestion
before and Abiola rejected it. So, their
mission was unnecessary because
they were not going to get him to say
yes. It must have been for another purpose. When they came in, the chief
guard that usually stayed with Abiola
was not there because they didn't tell
him some people would be visiting.
Abiola came unaccompanied to that
meeting. Of course, they had been told he was a tea drinker. They
brought a special flask, which Hamza
Al-Mustapha described as multi-
dimensional. They poured themselves
tea and poured tea for Abiola. There
was no precedence of a visitor bringing tea for the host. It is
unconventional. It is not done
anywhere in the world. Not only did
they bring it, they offered someone in
detention tea, with no guard around.
And Ambassador Pickering said in his press conference that shortly after he
had taken the tea, he complained of
pain in the chest and grabbed his
chest. And later, he felt uncomfortable
and then, he went to the convenience
to ease himself, but he did not come back as expected. They called on him
and he told them he was coming. By
then, he had started feeling weak.
They asked him if they should call the
doctor but he said they should ask
the guard to get his pain tablet. But he died before the pain tablet arrived. By
the time the doctor came, Abiola had
already died. They took him to Aso
Rock clinic, where they tried to jerk
his heart back to life, but he was
gone. That was how he died. Are you saying that the US had a hand in Abiola's death? Yes. It is necessary to note that death
followed Pickering's missions. A
notable personality usually dies after
his mission to any country. You can
go and read about him. The question
was: Why did he come? We know him as Central Intelligence Agency man
and he was not the serving
ambassador in the country then.
Abubakar was the one who gave
them the appointment. During a
cocktail to celebrate the US National Day, I asked the US Ambassador why
they brought Pickering and others. I
told him that Abacha, who was
occupying Abiola's position had died
and why did they bring another
military? We should also note that after Abiola died, Abubakar went to
White House to visit the sitting
American President and he went in
military uniform. Can you recollect
anybody who entered White House in
military uniform? It is not done. He was given that exception. Up till now,
nobody has repeated the precedence.
What did he do? How long had he
been on the throne here that he was
received by the American President?
Abacha was gone, Abiola was gone and they thought Nigeria's problem
was solved. But here we are.
The current American President has
not found it important enough to
come to the same country in which
the previous governments took very big roles in taking those two actors
out. I think it high time US apologised
to Nigeria for the roles it played in the
death of Abiola. The US also insisted
on sending at least two pathologists
just to protect its image, because there were rumours that it was the US
that killed Abiola. Tony Blair sent a
message to me through the British
High Commissioner here that he was
nominating Dr. John Shepherd, one of
the top pathologists in England, and we made him the team captain.
Human rights groups from Chicago
sent in a pathologist. America insisted
that they wanted to be well
represented. So, they sent one Muslim
doctor and one Christian doctor to me. I was there; Abubakar's doctor
was there; Dr. Coker, the owner of
that hospital on Victoria Island was
there and the team. You believe Abiola was poisoned, but how come this team of highly qualified doctors, including yourself conducted the post- mortem and concluded that Abiola died from natural causes? No, what they said was that there was
not enough supply of blood to his
heart because there was a collection
of fatty materials in the blood vessels
that supply blood to the heart. His
heart did not get blood supply; that was why he died eventually. The
question is, why did that happen?
How could that happen to somebody
who just woke up, had not done
anything and was not doing any
exercise. There are people who have worse conditions than that and they
are still alive. Something must have
engineered the heart to behave the
way it did that Abiola could not
survive more than 10 minutes. We
took specimen from his intestine, took his blood and sent it to
toxicologists in Canada and in
London.
Another question to ask was where
did Pickering type his press
statement? Abiola died around 3:40pm and by 4pm, Pickering read
his typed-written press statement and
said he must have died of heart
attack. The doctor that took Abiola's
body to Aso Rock clinic had not come
when Pickering addressed the press. Could something have triggered the
heart attack? The answer is yes. We
also know that there are drugs that
can affect the rhythm of the heart.
Such drugs can disturb the rhythm of
the heart to an extent that the heart can stop pumping blood. If you give it
to anyone to drink in tablet or liquid
form, it can make the heart to stop
within minutes. Does this leave traces
in the blood? Yes, because medical
science has perfected all that now. They just conducted the post-mortem
of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian man
that died about five years ago. When
he died, nobody suspected, but now
they believe he was poisoned and
they are trying to find out what type of poison it was. So, you believe medical science can detect the poison now? Yes, and that is why we are calling for
a more detailed investigation into the
cause of Abiola's death. Why are the
human rights activists here not
pushing for further investigation into
Abiola's death? Our government did not even want to say that the man
won the election, until President
Goodluck Jonathan came. But did Abiola have any health condition that could have resulted to sudden death? Tell me who had a better health than
Abiola. Before he was detained,
Abiola was a globetrotter. If not
because he was very healthy, he
wouldn't have lasted five years in
detention. He was not exercising, not seeing people and so on. They even
tried to injure him once in the office of
the Commissioner of Police in Abuja. A
police officer that came from Aso
Rock threw Abiola against a pillar and
he hit his back and his spinal cord protruded. We gave Abiola a
newspaper, and the policeman
wanted collect it from him, but he
refused. Then we looked for CT scan
and there was none in Nigeria but
Abacha was ready to let him go abroad for treatment. But many
people feared that if he left, they
would not have allowed him back
into the country. This was because he
had gone once and the then interim
President Ernest Shonekan, did not allow him back into the country. It
was the same Abacha that ensured
that Abiola returned. Abacha had to
change the guards at the airport,
replaced them with his own guards
and asked them to fly Abiola in from Cotonou. I was close to Abacha to
know all these. Abiola landed and
trouble started. Then there was the
afternoon coup, Abacha took over
from Shonekan. As far as Abacha was
concerned, his reign was not to be permanent, he had to remove
Shonekan to foil Ibrahim Babangida's
plan to come back. Babangida's
intention was to transform into a
civilian president.

Posted: at 12-06-2013 11:14 AM (11 years ago) | Newbie

But why are thy fearing to die now? I thought thy said that their allah sent them even if they die no wahala 72virgin dey for heaven for them.. So why are thy dodging to die now? This is what the youth should done all this while .. Any weldon boyz.. Stupid idiots fighting for your mumu mohamad the mad man.

Posted: at 12-06-2013 12:18 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

  Rams indeed.

Posted: at 12-06-2013 02:12 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

ok ..na them them ..no yawa

Posted: at 12-06-2013 03:43 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

 

Posted: at 13-06-2013 01:31 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

That one is good for them. Maybe they will stop killing. But wait o, are you guys sure this is true or it is just one of those preconceptions..Who knows?

Posted: at 13-06-2013 11:56 AM (11 years ago) | Newbie

HOPE AJANNI DEY AMONG

Posted: at 13-06-2013 06:22 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac