As the personal physician of the late MKO Abiola, Dr Ore Falomo, passes on, many people have continued to review the role he played during the June 12 struggles.
Far from being a passive physician, the roles he played on the political terrain would remind some of what other popular doctors such as Beko Ranso-Kuti and Frederick Fasehun, did during the struggle for the return of democracy.
In relation to how Abiola died, however, Falomo’s revelation to ‘The Tribune’ last year, concerning who killed the man, will remain instructive.
He had said in an interview:
It’s not for this time. What we are talking about is the present situation. I have spoken about what killed Abiola several times and I have proved it. I have gone before a Special Tribunal to state the case. So, it is not anything new and they have not been able to say I am wrong. They were not comfortable enough when I said it and they have not put forward any other thing that could have killed Abiola. He was waking up from sleep and then after sipping that tea, he grabbed his chest crying over pain and he died. I am a doctor. He didn’t exert himself or anything, so what brought heart attack? I have analysed it and even said to them how a Pope, who had not been in the rain for a day, was killed and we knew what killed the Pope and I said it was similar to what killed Abiola. That Abiola was visited by somebody who is known; who death always follows wherever he goes and everyone knows about it. Why don’t they speak out? Those who benefitted from the death of Abiola and Abacha are still there and they are now fighting themselves. They are not military people but civilians and you will still hear more stories. It will come out. If Abiola had been president, things would have been better done and all the bad things happening now wouldn’t have been.
