ELON COLLEGE – Hafsat Abiola, daughter of Chief Moshood Abiola who died this summer after four years of detention by the Nigerian military government, will discuss the democracy movement in her native country at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Whitley Auditorium on the Elon College campus.
The speech is free and open to the public.
Hafsat Abiola, a practicing Muslin, has emerged as spokesperson of the Nigerian democracy movement in exile. Her father was believed by many to have been the winner of the 1993 presidential elections which were abruptly annulled by the military. He was jailed for treason in 1994 after he proclaimed himself president. Hafsat’s mother was killed in Lagos in June 1996 by gunmen who opened fire on her car.
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