Abdulmumuni Abiola, son of the acclaimed winner of the 12 June 1993 presidential elections, the late Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola, has made some clarifications about his late dad and their extended family.
Speaking in a recent interview, Mumuni disclosed that his father had 40 wives according to his will and 103 children.
He went on to recount how DNA test confirmed his dad fathered just 55 children, and not 103, as widely believed.
Abiola’s son revealed this in a chat with “Mic On Podcast,” attempting to refute the rumor that his father had forty marriages and 103 children.
Explaining further, Mumuni stated that his father had 103 children under his care prior to his passing but after a DNA testing was done on all the children, it was confirmed that only fifty-five of them actually belonged to his father.
He said many people believed his father was having fun, but they were unaware that he was covering 103 people’s education expenses.
“DNA tests confirmed only 55 as his biological offspring. You know the Abiola family, we are not that much. People think we are a lot. We are only 55. Well, there were 40 wives. Then according to the will, I think about forty-something though.
“There were some wives that were not there at the end. Most of the wives had maybe one or two for my dad. Not every one of them.
“When my father was alive, he was paying for 103 people to go to school. But like I said not all of them were his. So after the blood tests, we happen to be 55.”
