Moshood Abiola

Standing for the Social Democratic Party with Baba Gana Kingibe as his running mate, Abiola contested the presidential election of 12 June 1993 and defeated Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention, winning even in his opponent's home state of Kano. National and international observers called it Nigeria's freest and fairest election, but the military president, Ibrahim Babangida, annulled the results before they were completed, provoking a political crisis ¹.

In June 1994 Abiola declared himself the lawful president and was arrested and detained by the regime of Sani Abacha. His wife Kudirat, a leading campaigner for the restoration of his mandate, was assassinated in 1996. Abiola died in detention in Abuja on 7 July 1998, on the eve of his expected release ^{1 2}. In 2018 President Muhammadu Buhari awarded him the Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic posthumously — an honour normally reserved for heads of state — and moved Nigeria's Democracy Day to 12 June in his honour ¹.

The English article's text calls Abiola personally "a Southern Muslim", records his membership of the Ansar-Ud-Deen society, his support through the National Concord for Islamic causes including a Sharia Court of Appeal in the south-west, and the title Baba Adinni of Yorubaland conferred on him by Muslim clerics in 1984. Membership of a Muslim society, public support for Islamic causes and a clerical title are association, activity and honour, not the naming of a school; Wikidata gives only Islam, and no source used names a madhhab. The record therefore keeps his affiliation unknown ^{1 2}.

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