Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday said “bad belle” prevented Late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola from becoming president in 1993.
EGALITARIAN VOICE reports that Abiola was the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, but he was denied the top seat by former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, who annulled the poll.
However, speaking at the centenary celebrations of the Baptist Boys High School (BBHS), Abeokuta, Ogun State, day stated that “bad belle” did not allow the school to produce another president. Bad belle metaphorically stands for jealousy.
Abiola was the Aare Ona Kankafo XIV of Yorubaland and an aristocrat of the Egba clan in Ogun State.
“If not for Nigerian bad belle, M.K.O. Abiola would have been President and with me as President, we would have needed one more old student of BBHS to be President for us to permanently locate it in BBHS after three times. And that is a challenge for up-and-coming generations of old boys,” Obasanjo said.
