Hafsat Abiola founded and directs an organization called the
Kudirat Initiative for Democracy, KIND, named for her mother, which seeks to
promote and strengthen democracy in Nigeria. Her father, who had won Nigeria's first
presidential election in a decade, was incarcerated by the military before he
could take office, and died in prison. Her mother, Kudirat Abiola, another
democracy advocate, was assassinated a few years later in the streets of Lagos.see more after the cut
Kudirat Abiola fell to bullets from a P 90 riffle, allegedly on the orders of
the Nigerian state under gen. Sani Abacha. 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.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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