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Annulment was payment for Abiola’s evil deeds – Sen Owie

ON JUNE 12, 2013

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor

Former member of the House of Representatives, former Senate Chief
Whip and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rowland
Stephen Owie says the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential
election was a divine recompense for Abiola’s alleged past political
misdeeds.

{b]What is your perspective on the June 12, 1993 election?[/b]
When people talk about June 12, June 12; June 12 has no meaning. June 12
is the repayment of evil for MKO Abiola. Whatever you sow, you reap. I
said about four years ago that if Abiola had been president he would
have been dead.

You think so?
Yes, let me tell you. Before anyone can say that the annulment was evil
they should answer four questions. Number one, who was that politician
that brought what was called the Maroko land deal to limelight? Who
was that politician who used the Maroko land deal as an albatross on the
neck of Chief Obafemi Awolowo? Who is that Nigerian or group of
Nigerians who went to Obasanjo and connived with him and removed
the Electoral College act from the decree of 1978?

Who is that politician or group of politicians that aided the military to
take over the government of President Shehu Shagari in 1983 after the
NPN convention? Who is that politician? Who is that politician that aided
the military in disqualifying all the major candidates of SDP and NRC?

I say if they can answer it and the answer is negative for MKO Abiola,
then the annulment of June 12 is evil. But if the answer is yes and it’s MKO
Abiola, the annulment of June 12 was the best thing that happened
because you can’t plant mango and reap yam.

In 1979 I was in the UPN as a member of the House of Representatives
and there was a provision in the transition decree of 1978/79 which made
provision for Electoral College if the presidential election became
inconclusive, and it really was inconclusive, because Shagari did not get
two-third of the 19 states. So, we were preparing for Electoral College.
NPP, GNPP, PRP and UPN we had majority in the National Assembly
which constituted the Electoral College.

The late Mallam Aminu Kano of PRP, Alhaji Waziri Ibrahim of GNPP,
Nnamdi Azikiwe of NPP and Awolowo of UPN had met and we had all
met. But three days to the Electoral College Obasanjo removed the
clause on Electoral College; he removed the goal post within the run of
play.

The Electoral College was removed after the election when we were
getting ready for it and that was why Awolowo had no other option and
he had to go to court and the judgment gave rise to the issue of 12 2/3! A
human being cannot be half, he is either full or… and that is why Justice
Sowemimo said that that judgment cannot be quoted in future.

Abiola and Obasanjo were involved as Egbas to remove that clause.
Concord brought the headline “Maroko land: Awolowo where is your
sincerity”. We were in Minna when it was published. Look it deflated the
old man, it scattered him, in fact, he was no longer himself and he started
battling how to explain.

Now NPN went for their national convention in Kano and Umaru Dikko,
he is alive, he said the presidential candidate of the NPN is not for sale.
MKO Abiola wanted the presidential ticket he didn’t get it and he then
came and aligned with the military people who now came in.

And IBB came and set up two political parties, Shehu Yar‘adua, Adamu
Ciroma and other major contenders in SDP and NRC, overnight the
military disqualified all of them, aided and abetted by MKO Abiola.
Because if Yar‘adua were (involved) there was no way MKO would have
won. He was not even in contention until the disqualification of these
major contenders. That is why I said that June 12 was a repayment for
evil that was done against other people.


But how do you see the June 12 election in terms of electoral conduct and
fairness?

The June 12 election because it was an open ballot and had only two
parties which cut across tribal lines was one of the fairest elections everheld in this country. June 12 showed what a good government can do in
an election. If IBB and Aikhomu wanted to tamper with the election, they
could have tampered with the election, but they didn’t. It was a free and
fair election but what I am telling you is that the annulment that came
later was the hand of Esau and the voice of Jacob.


What do you mean?

What happened was a repayment for evil.
But was that justified on the nation?
Yes! What I am saying is that it was God’s own work, it was God’s own
work.


For Abiola’s alleged sin of…

All the sins!
But did that justify the derailment of the collective hope of Nigerians?
What is the collective hope of Nigerians?


Democracy

Was the Buhari coup against Shagari justified? Was that the collective
will of Nigerians?


That is debatable because many Nigerians welcomed the coup just as
majority of Nigerians were against the annulment of June 12.

It is because you are a pressman. Do you know how many people in my
village that were not interested and were happy with the annulment,
even though some of us were not happy.


You, were you happy with the annulment?

The annulment served Abiola right, quote me! You cannot be destroying
other people and expect to have victory. There is a parable that all those
who destroy other people will end up having destruction at the hour of
their victory. MKO should not have expected anything less. Tell me, was
it justified for Shehu Musa Yar‘adua and Falae in the SDP to be
disqualified? What did they do? Was it justified for Adamu Ciroma and
co in the NRC to be disqualified? What did they do? They were all
disqualified in both parties so that MKO Abiola who was a friend of the
military could emerge as the strongest candidate.

It was no secret that he paraded himself as a friend of the military. That
man could not have expected to become president of Nigeria when he
had ruined many people. The truth is that God does not come down to
do some of these things Himself. He uses human beings as instruments
and that is why when a man is looking for elective or appointive position,
maybe as LGA chairman, governor, minister or president, he is looking for
an aspect of the divinity of God. It is out of that divinity that the man in
charge of affairs takes, compassion, service to the people, ability to
manage everybody, forgiveness.

Unfortunately, the moment you get that position and you do not utilise it,
not generally, just some part of it…if you watch when Christ cured the ten
lepers only one came back to say thank you, but he said where are the
other nine? And if you read Hipppolytus he said that as soon as Christ
asked where are the nine that the leprosy returned to the nine and they
died of leprosy.


Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/annulment-was-payment-for-abiolas-evil-deeds-sen-owie/

I was having pity on Abiola until I started reading about him. The man was evil
Thank God for Babangida, he took the best decision that favoured majority of Nigerian.
Abiola cannot plant mangoes and expect to harvest yam.

Fuuny that Buhari has started pressing the mumu bottom of sophisticated m00r000ns because majority of them don't know the history.
May God punish the person that removed history from out curriculum.

This Edo man has finished Abiola ...

He said nothing but the truth.

1. Breathe in
2. Book space
3. Fact check claims
4. Come back to Comment

Good luck

I wish Abiola's spirit can slap.... This man deserve 50kg weight of slap for spewing ogiri

Oro agba. Karma is as sure as death.

Senseless talk. Who suffer the outcome of annulment pass? Abiola or innocent Nigeria masses?

ISLAMBAD:
I was having pity on Abiola until I started reading about him. The man was evil
Thank God for Babangida, he took the best decision that favoured majority of Nigerian.
Abiola cannot plant mangoes and expect to harvest yam.

Fuuny that Buhari has started pressing the mumu bottom of sophisticated m00r000ns because majority of them don't know the history.

He dined and wined with those who later killed him. ITT...... International thief thief was reference to him by Fela (a fellow Yoruba man).
Bring back History to our educational system, so that this indomie generation will learn and be enlightened.

ISLAMBAD:
I was having pity on Abiola until I started reading about him. The man was evil
Thank God for Babangida, he took the best decision that favoured majority of Nigerian.
Abiola cannot plant mangoes and expect to harvest yam.

Fuuny that Buhari has started pressing the mumu bottom of sophisticated m00r000ns because majority of them don't know the history.

Piggyyeasterners are so daft. They don't realise there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.
Whether Buhari wins in 2019 or not. He has engraved his footsteps in the sands of time - the most important thing.

whoever removed History as a subject from our curriculum is truly evil. And this upcoming generation hates to read and make objective analysis.
MKO, sponsors coupists. It is not a hidden thing in the military cycle. But when he declared himself President, the same military put him where he belongs.
Karma never forgets.

MKO was never any hero.
His evil deeds caught with him unexpectedly.

Was it not his Yoruba brothers that betrayed him