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Sentimental about what ? OBJ handed over to shagari in 1979 and that day didn't earn the title of democracy day,what's special about May 29 when Abdul salam handed over to him ? Did you know how many igbos and northerners including yorubas that die because of June 12 ? Well I won't blame you lots,you lacked knowledge of history possibly you weren't even born then and was only being told what happened but your in-born hatred for yorubas won't let you learn from history.

madam_oringo:

Well, give that advice to yourself, you need it MORE! Prof. Soyinka has no reason to argue, he was there, live, were you? Are you so bereft of mental capacity not to know that by declaring which day is the REAL Democracy day, June 12, he is telling YOU and NIGERIANS which day is the RIGHT ONE? Or do you expect him to descend to the level of a toddler mind like you to say, "here is the R-I-G-H-T and here is the W-R-O-N-G", etc? So everything OBJ did is right when it feeds into the hatefest frenzy of Ibos towards the Yorubas, a people they can not like because they boss them COMPLETELY, without even arguing or seeming to pay attention to Ibos always trying to "measure-up"? Well, OBJ was right in spending N 16 Tr for roads during his years including roads in ibo land, appropriating 60 B for your still-born 2nd Niger bridge which is yet to even see a single shovel digging the ground? I hope he was right in those circumstances too!

madam_oringo:

Knock it off! You are a tribalist and you know why you would rather not consider June 12 Democracy day! It screams everything about the icon of that struggle, Chief M.K.O Abiola, a Yorubaman, Aare Ona Kakanfo! Recognizing such a day goes completely against the propagandist narrative that your tribe, the ibos, are special or better than every other part of Nigeria! Chief Abiola chose rather to return to Nigeria and resolutely defend a mandate given by the people to the end, this is something any Ibo man will NEVER do or has ever done! This is why you'd rather not have or mention June 12 and Democracy day in the same sentence! It doesn't matter anyway! For most right thinking people with a mind for equity, justice and egalitarianism, they will recognize that June 12 and Chief Abiola are iconic, and though they may be upset that Yoruba Military Generals and Commanders stopped anything called biafra and the strongest ibo man ever known Ojukwu fled cross-dressed as a pussi-sissy for over a decade (13 years), Chief Abiola deserves A LOT OF credit and recognition for paying the supreme price and sacrificing himself for the struggle! I bet you were a little kid or unborn in those dark days for then, you would have an idea of how a society could be oppressed under tyrannical leadership!

If you live in the South West of the Yoruba, a people who were already in civilization during the medieval times, a confident, measured and proudly proud of their ancestral heritage, the sacrifice of their fathers, a sophisticated, astute and militarily superior people, you will have to observe our holidays! If you don't like it, go back to whatever backwater burg you sprang from!

ajanaku2:

Most people aren't even aware that this Philanthropist called Abiola had a First class honours degree in Accountancy from the University of Glasgow, Scotland; a distinction from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland...

He was also a Member of My institute, the number one professional body in Nigeria; the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)...

He was indeed an Omowe!

Ola Johnson:
WS is not trying to immortalize MKO but the day, June 12.
On the issue of problem that greeted the renaming of UNILAG, it was unfortunate. It is not proper for anything to be named after an Are Ona Kakanfo.

3ace:
Maybe it's because May 29th is the latest Handover date for democratically elected president. But as for me, I'm indifferent on the issue. I appreciate the fact that Chief M.K.O Abiola sacrificed his life while trying to rescue us from the hands if the Military but emmm....infact, this whole argument complex jare. But one thing I know is that M.K.O would be glad if this country becomes great again. So let's work together and keep his dream alive.

ajanaku2:

Most people aren't even aware that this Philanthropist called Abiola had a First class honours degree in Accountancy from the University of Glasgow, Scotland; a distinction from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland...

He was also a Member of My institute, the number one professional body in Nigeria; the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)...

He was indeed an Omowe!

Slizbeat: June 12 cannot be democracy day. When Abiola's election victory was shattered, did we receive the dividend of democracy?
Stop trying to impose june 12 on the masses, impose it on the south west for all I care. Till today, there is and have never been a democracy day. What is democracy without its dividend? May 29 and June 12 are fake. I still buy fuel for my generator, I still make use of torch at night, I sometimes enter boats in a commercial road like ejigbo, so what democracy are talking about?
To me, we never had a democracy and wouldn't have had even if it was June 12. That day was only an attempt. June 12 is a south-western public holiday, while May 29 is a fake democratic celebration mostly celebrated by the high and mighty in the Nigerian community.

ezex:
It was the day the government of the people by the people and for the people was elected.And this is what democracy meansy

iykak47: Madam bingo if you are not careful the hatered you have on Igbos will cause you heart attack

madam_oringo:

Knock it off! You are a tribalist and you know why you would rather not consider June 12 Democracy day! It screams everything about the icon of that struggle, Chief M.K.O Abiola, a Yorubaman, Aare Ona Kakanfo! Recognizing such a day goes completely against the propagandist narrative that your tribe, the ibos, are special or better than every other part of Nigeria! Chief Abiola chose rather to return to Nigeria and resolutely defend a mandate given by the people to the end, this is something any Ibo man will NEVER do or has ever done! This is why you'd rather not have or mention June 12 and Democracy day in the same sentence! It doesn't matter anyway! For most right thinking people with a mind for equity, justice and egalitarianism, they will recognize that June 12 and Chief Abiola are iconic, and though they may be upset that Yoruba Military Generals and Commanders stopped anything called biafra and the strongest ibo man ever known Ojukwu fled cross-dressed as a pussi-sissy for over a decade (13 years), Chief Abiola deserves A LOT OF credit and recognition for paying the supreme price and sacrificing himself for the struggle! I bet you were a little kid or unborn in those dark days for then, you would have an idea of how a society could be oppressed under tyrannical leadership!

If you live in the South West of the Yoruba, a people who were already in civilization during the medieval times, a confident, measured and proudly proud of their ancestral heritage, the sacrifice of their fathers, a sophisticated, astute and militarily superior people, you will have to observe our holidays! If you don't like it, go back to whatever backwater burg you sprang from!

van bonattel:

MKO would have been the worst president in this god forsaken country.

van bonattel:

He also looted state funds with ITT, and the rest of his padi padi business

Imperial McHæl:
in my own opinion, (and without interfering in any tribal uprising online - as it were)
I believe making a day on which democracy was publicly murdered the Democracy Day is a disgrace and further mockery to democracy itself. Had the story recorded a better ending, it could have been very appropriate.
But as it stands, Soyinka missed it big!

Lincoln burrows: Wole Soyinka= overrated noise maker
My take: such suggestions sounds more silly than a five year old would make. Abiola didn't even win that election (never proven he did ). In my own opinion, tofa won the election hands down. So you guys could declare public holidays for one week for me to rest and not to honor abiola. Who cares.

Abali1:
Ana akukwa aka eba a? Nairaland Kuba nu aka.
Madam I dey clap for you here. I know no say you fit write like KONGI. This is what Oyibo people call BEAUTIFUL NONSENSE.

Controversy:

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Is that all?

Itoroetti :


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.




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 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.

you can’t plant
mango and reap yam.

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.
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.


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.


What happened was a repayment for evil.

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.



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

Ola Johnson: #Oro nla l'eda eh, oro nla l'eda. Eyin t'epa Abiola, ti e je o bo si ipo, oro nla l'eda#

Abali1:
please read up the history of OUR GREAT AARE ONA KAKANFO