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Moshood Abiola

1937 - 1998

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Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola , also known as M. K. O. Abiola ( ; 24 August 1937 – 7 July 1998) was a Nigerian business magnate, publisher, and politician. He was the honorary supreme military commander of the Oyo Empire and an aristocrat of the Egba clan. Abiola ran for the presidency in 1993, for which the election results were annulled by then military president Ibrahim Babangida. He would later die in detention after making an attempt to assert himself as the elected president. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Moshood Abiola is the 10,594th most popular politician (up from 17,832nd in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Nigeria (up from 95th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Nigerian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Moshood Abiola ranks 10,594 out of 19,576. Before him are Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria, Michael Krešimir II of Croatia, Michael Mayr, Prince William of Gloucester, Abdellatif Filali, and Princess Augusta of Cambridge. After him are Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen, Jaan Teemant, Leo IV, King of Armenia, Agnello Participazio, Fernando II, Duke of Braganza, and Eadgifu of Wessex.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Moshood Abiola ranks 203. Before him are Gordon Milne, Chris Bristow, Luciano Moggi, Dyan Cannon, Milutin Šoškić, and Ted Nelson. After him are Gaston Roelants, Tom Stoppard, Richard Jordan, Edita Piekha, Magnar Solberg, and Armin Hary. Among people deceased in 1998, Moshood Abiola ranks 121. Before him are Mary Cartwright, Jorge Pacheco Areco, Sani Abacha, Joan Hickson, Olivier Gendebien, and Åke Seyffarth. After him are Carl Wilson, Mahbub ul Haq, Klaus Tennstedt, Nino Ferrer, Mancur Olson, and Vladimir Demikhov.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Moshood Abiola ranks 22 out of 309. Before him are Jay-Jay Okocha (1973), John Obi Mikel (1987), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (1954), Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951), Sani Abacha (1943), and Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941). After him are Hakeem Olajuwon (1963), Olaudah Equiano (1745), Amos Tutuola (1920), Yakubu Gowon (1934), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977), and Victor Osimhen (1998).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nigeria

Among politicians born in Nigeria, Moshood Abiola ranks 8. Before him are Murtala Mohammed (1938), Muhammadu Buhari (1942), Olusegun Obasanjo (1937), Bola Tinubu (1952), Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951), and Sani Abacha (1943). After him are Yakubu Gowon (1934), Shehu Shagari (1925), Goodluck Jonathan (1957), Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904), Ibrahim Babangida (1941), and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912).

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