‘Bad belle’ prevented MKO Abiola from becoming Nigeria’s president – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday said ‘bad belle’ (jealousy) stopped the winner of June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola, from becoming Nigeria’s president.

Obasanjo spoke at the Centenary Anniversary of Baptist Boys High School (BBHS), Abeokuta, Ogun State.

The former President was speaking about those who played prominent role including those the school had produced when he said ‘bad belle’ stopped Abiola from being president.

He said Abiola, the first communication industry millionaire in Nigeria and the winner of the 1993 presidential election, was also a product of the school.

He said, “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 stated that without BBHS, he would not have been what he was, while expressing gratefulness to those that he had mentioned and seniors, classmates and juniors that he had the opportunity to interact with while in the BBHS.

The former president said the school taught him and others godly virtues.

“What all these great products of BBHS have in common is godly virtue inculcated in them by the School.  That was education plus.  We carry it to anywhere we go as epistle written by BBHS to our families, our communities, our States, our country, and our continent of Africa and indeed our world.

“We must impact with humility, honesty, integrity, wisdom, courage, competence and fear of God – these must continue to be our characteristics and our attributes to make a change for good wherever we are.  We must be different,” he said.