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Abiola’s daughter wins assembly seat

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    The eldest daughter of the late opposition politician, Moshood Abiola, has won a seat in the Assembly, news reports said. Lola Abiola-Edewor, 38, received 85 percent of the votes for the Lagos Apapa seat. She is the only member of the Abiola family who has engaged in politics since her father’s death in detention ion July 1998. Moshood Abiola, was the presumed winner of the annulled presidential polls of 1993. He was imprisoned in 1994 for declaring himself president of Nigeria.

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