Son of late Chief MKO Abiola, Mr Olalekan Abiola has revealed that 66 persons who claimed to be his father’s children failed a DNA test.
He made the revelation during an interview in commemoration of the anniversary in honour of the late business mogul and widely acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 election.
While revealing his late father had a lot of women, he stressed, however, that a lot of the women themselves to him willingly.
“The only thing you could say about my father that was kind of negative was that he had a lot of women but a lot of these women were those that came to him to give themselves to him willingly,” he disclosed.
Olalekan said some of the women came along with their children, claiming that their husbands had abandoned them.
He said out of his generosity, his late father would shelter some of them and carter for their welfare, adding shortly after such women would start calling themselves Mrs. Abiola, even though many of them were not.
“They would change their children’s names to Abiola and that was why my father wrote in his will that DNA test had to be done for all those who claimed to be his children.
“About 120 children came forward to say they were MKO’s children but only 54 of them passed the DNA test at the end of the day (meaning 66 failed).
“So it was these women who were the ones coming to him and not him going around looking for them. When my father was alive back then, we saw women outside the house everyday,” he told Vanguard.
He revealed that about 10 to 15 different women, with different shapes and complexions, would come to see his father then for one thing or the other everyday.
Olalekan equally described his mother’s demise as the most painful going by the manner she was assassinated.
“Honestly, it’s been 27 years of trauma, especially with my mother’s assassination.
“I am saying this because she was all the way with us at home when my father was in detention at that time.
“She was not arrested, she was not detained by the military junta and she was not under house arrest.
“One minute my mom was at home, in good health, and the next minute she had been shot. So that was more painful, more traumatic than the fate my father suffered.
“In my dad’s case, he had been locked up for like four years before he died, so we had been used to not seeing him anymore,” he further stated.
Olalekan also lamented the failure of successive administrations to pay the debt owed to his late father.
He said the late business mogul handled some contracts, including supplies to some government ministries but that the money had not been paid till date.
According to him, former president Olusegun Obasanjo had promised to offset the debt but never did until he left office.
He added that the matter was also brought to the attention of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan who also pledged to pay when he returns for a second term. He said the promise did not materialise as Jonathan lost re-election.
He added that former president Muhammadu Buhari at least gave the family June 12 as Democracy Day.
Olalekan further noted that President Bola Tinubu has not said anything about it yet.