D Merciful: The assertion by Wole Soyinka that June 12 is the real democracy day has triggered a lot of controversies. The one that declared may 29 democracy day many would believe, would have been more likely to declare June 12 instead of May 29 yet he did not! People who many believed would support the naming of an iconic institution after an iconic man (MKO) just like Nnamdi Azikiwe, vehemently refuse the move by GEJ and yet wants him to declare June 12 as democracy day in honour of MKO is difficult to understand.
Guys, tell me if its not a gross irony!

van bonattel:

This guy disappointed the keen political observers in this country when he chose to die of common pneumonia in the cell like a common criminal. For crying out loud this guy was the richest guy in Nigeria, he had the cash and the connections to import Tanks and war planes and stage a hefty free for all fight against the spineless Abacha and his cronies. But like a coward he chickened out and instead allowed himself to be arrested without a fight, he did not even have time to throw a common knockout! and come see the kain beating he recieved from the hands of small boys hausa recruits army who panel beat him for days, almost skinning him with their koboko whips. This guy disappointed the nation big time.

Pvt. Parts:


He contested the highest office in the most civil way through elections and was robbed by a thieving despot who held sway among the Nations military and security apparatus. Would you have preferred a scenario where a civil war will break out? A civil war which may still have been on going till this day?
Abiola did not chicken out. He did the only best thing by immortalizing the struggle for democracy through his own incarceration and death.
It is the NADECO elements who betrayed him at the end that must be judged. The same elements who rode on Abiola's name in 1999 but have since substituted it with theirs. The same elements of mistrust and hypocrisy who fanned the embers of student revolt against the renaming of the University of Lagos to Moshood Abiola University in order to score cheap popularity. These same elements are so shrouded in their own hypocrisy also when it comes to the issue of fuel subsidy. They actively financed the occupy movement to stop any reform in the downstream sector but were the first to demand revenue accrued from partial subsidy lifting. They strongly refused to a pay wage in their state civil service in order to squeeze as much cash from their respective states to their own pockets. The so-called progressives.

van bonattel:

He contested and won, and then chikened out. He should have fought for it. He was pushed aside because they know he will never fight, and they were right afterall. NADECO betrayed him, of course they have betrayal in their genes, check your history books.

dayokanu:

He should fight and run away to Abidjan like the legendary warlord

[img]http://img1.nairaland.com/attachments/662540_Ojuku_ferege_jpgfee0b97d23772ed3836eb70d246c6ea8[/img]

van bonattel:

the legendary warlord fought, and held this goddammed contraption called naijeriya down for the better part of 3 years. He is better than those that died without shooting a bullet because they were scared for thier lives, and they still died like common pick pockets.

dayokanu:

You mean the warlord who was leading an army and fled warfront

www.nairaland.com/attachments/789775_Ojukwu_getting_ready_to_run_jpg967aeb75e390ca75377ad019b3c9fae5

van bonattel:

much better than the 'aare ona kakanfo' who never owned a gun in his entire life.

dayokanu:

You mean a coward who wore women clothes and fled warfront is better than a man who died fighting for his mandate?

dayokanu:

You mean a coward who wore women clothes and fled warfront is better than a man who died fighting for his mandate?

van bonattel:

or the coward who was caught and flogged by small boys, abandoned for a long time in an underground cell and fed with crumbs from abacha table?

Controversy:
Ojukwu is a warlord
Who is Abiola? You said he died fighting for his mandate pls who did he fight with?

dayokanu:

Abiola fought the military govt, Ojuku fled warfront. What a coward A wuss a pucci

ezex:
Atleast he faced is greatest fear nd enemy,he didn't run away.With this assertion he is man enough,not someone with guns or warheads and ran away leaving his people behind.
And do you think with the money he has at that time he can't runaway?.
abiola fought the military govt for every citizens of Nigeria,while ojukwu was only fighting for the igbos and before the end of the war,he wasn't man enough,he ran away.

D Merciful: If you are so proud of MKO, why did you protest when a university was named after him!

Sunehri_145:
Abiola died a coward

van bonattel:

much better than the 'aare ona kakanfo' who never owned a gun in his entire life.

Clitorial.Dept.:


Honestly this generation is lost. When I saw UNILAG students protesting the name change I wonder if this was the same school that was actively behind the IBB Must Go Riots or the June 12 movement.
The only excuses they gave alongside the Ivory House were that they were not consulted on the name change in due time and besides that the new name will affect their "swags".

Tinibu I don't know what you are piping into the lagos state water system but it is effectively creating loyal dunce sheeple followers.

Then lest i forget another scenario where LASU students went on the streets to protest Gani's law suit against Tinibu's chicago certificate. The irate mob who reinforced my view on most state college students initial inability to secure admission into federal universities due to poor JAMB score was solidified in marble.

I am sure one of those student's involved in the Gani bashing is here vigorously shinning tinibu's d1ck on this site.

you are damn right bro, by the way i am yoruba and a graduate of LASU.

D Merciful: The assertion by Wole Soyinka that June 12 is the real democracy day has triggered a lot of controversies. The one that declared may 29 democracy day many would believe, would have been more likely to declare June 12 instead of May 29 yet he did not! People who many believed would support the naming of an iconic institution after an iconic man (MKO) just like Nnamdi Azikiwe, vehemently refuse the move by GEJ and yet wants him to declare June 12 as democracy day in honour of MKO is difficult to understand.
Guys, tell me if its not a gross irony!

van bonattel:

This guy disappointed the keen political observers in this country when he chose to die of common pneumonia in the cell like a common criminal. For crying out loud this guy was the richest guy in Nigeria, he had the cash and the connections to import Tanks and war planes and stage a hefty free for all fight against the spineless Abacha and his cronies. But like a coward he chickened out and instead allowed himself to be arrested without a fight, he did not even have time to throw a common knockout! and come see the kain beating he recieved from the hands of small boys hausa recruits army who panel beat him for days, almost skinning him with their koboko whips. This guy disappointed the nation big time.