What will now happen if the election result is released?

I strongly believe the way forward to a better Nigeria should be everyone's priority at this time.

God bless everyone & God bless Nigeria.

Lol

Thought they are smart people. So because south east and north are agitating they too want to talk and this is the rubbish they are asking for. 1993 election results??
Misplaced priorities

To what ends ? So that abiola's ghost will halp him rule Nigeria or what ? Abiola election results is their problem at this time of self reliance.

Agitations everywhere, everybody is against the North cos they are the problem of the country.

Bunch of jokers searching for relevance.

ladyF:
Lol misplaced priorities.

of the highest order

fuckDmod:
yes oh my fulani slave brother,we igbo's have also decided to jointhe caliphate,we are on our kneels begging just make us ur slave,make our women ur sex slave,u are free to rape our women adult or under-age,we are legendry slave to fulani's nd yoruba
Our son nnamdi azikwe was a slave of amadu bello.our son ekuweme was a slave to shagari.we voted obasanjo against our son nd hero ojukwu just to show how subjected we are t oduwa/arewa.we gave up 3million of our children life to be used has military toys by fulani/yoruba army.we are nothing but slaves,please make our women ur sex slave.
Even our founding father nri is oduduwa nd othman dan fodio slave in the spirit world

you and the person you quote has brain cancer...you gus better hit *Uk*

Will releasing the result reduce fuel price? Would it improve our economy? Will it put food on an ordinary Nigerian table?

PhilemonObende:
Is something wrong with these christian Afenifere people? How can they order our fulani rulers around like that?

We yoruba muslims are against this nonsense. Once we muslims are through with smuggling sharia into the constitution, we'll make these Afenifere christians face our Sharia code starting with Rev Gbonigi and Olu falae.

if muslims up north loves u yoruba muslims. How come in sokoto nysc camp. Yoruba muslims were outside the mosque while northern muslims worshiped inside the mosque. Stop deceiving yourself. U are a second class muslim

PhilemonObende:


Oga even if Biafrac leave tommorow, we yoruba muslims will ensure that yorubaland stay with Fulanis, where are we rushing to. You want to leave the foolish ipods? Don't you know that fulanis are better than ibos?

We will build a great nation with fulanis in Islamic Arewa-Odua.

never knew we still have your type in this country. No no no I don't believe

PhilemonObende:


Oga even if Biafrac leave tommorow, we yoruba muslims will ensure that yorubaland stay with Fulanis, where are we rushing to. You want to leave the foolish ipods? Don't you know that fulanis are better than ibos?

We will build a great nation with fulanis in Islamic Arewa-Odua.

Ignoramus generation.for your information,we,christian Yoruba will do business with igbos cos they are creative not the cow driven ones that will take you to the 80s.Be wise,no one will allow you guys to Islamize Yoruba land.take it or leave it.its your type of person that will follow in killing that Christian woman in kano.you guys are blood-thirsty.we say NO to Fulani in Yoruba land.if you have their DNA then relocate.

like that will solve the problems of Nigeria... mtchew

PhilemonObende:


yes we yoruba muslims have the right to bow to fulani muslims because they brought Islam to us and thank them for this. fulanis are the first borns of Allah in nigeria while We yoruba muslims honour them.

more emirs in yorubaland loading.

All these agitation across the country today greed is the cause. Some few selfish elements will come onstage, make some noise, saying they represent their people thereby subjecting the larger populace into confusion... But all the want is settlement. Their own personal interest.

SMH @ previous comments...maybe all the 'sane, literates' on NL are in church or busy right now sha because all previous comments can be summed up as 'foolish'

Today is June 12 2016, the Yoruba's mark it as a day to remember. M.K.O abiola.

Now on this important day they urge FG to release the official results of the election so as to provide 'closure' and some youths here who have never fought 4 anything they believed in are criticising the group.

What else would d group ask for on JUNE 12?

While some people whose hero chose to flee with his family rather than face his adversary and embrace looming death are here posting rubbish.

I hold Yoruba's in high regard their leaders (present tinubu to former yoruba leaders) have always shown a doggedness to fight their enemies without compromise...and if dey must. Die they embrace it.

Years after the Hillsborough tragedy of 1989 this year the official inquest report was finally released... does it bring the 96 dead fans back to life?

And u wonder why the whites call us monkeys...

PhilemonObende:
Is something wrong with these christian Afenifere people? How can they order our fulani rulers around like that?

We yoruba muslims are against this nonsense. Once we muslims are through with smuggling sharia into the constitution, we'll make these Afenifere christians face our Sharia code starting with Rev Gbonigi and Olu falae.

finishing move

PhilemonObende:


you yoruba unbelievers must join hands with we yoruba muslims to deal with the ibos. yorubaland belongs to Allah! Allah is bringing Sharia to nigeria and unbelievers like Rev. Gbonigi , Olu falae and Femi will face sharia for confronting our fulani rulers.

lol... Look at this 3rd class Animal, u want to deal with the igbos, In this 21st century.. Wake up fool, the hausa-fulani don't recognize u as one of them.a lot of yoruba Muslims are slaughtered whenever there's religious crisis in kaduna. Bottom line is, they don't see u as one of them and you will never be..

saintdennis:
SMH @ previous comments...maybe all the 'sane, literates' on NL are in church or busy right now sha because all previous comments can be summed up as 'foolish'

Today is June 12 2016, the Yoruba's mark it as a day to remember. M.K.O abiola.

Now on this important day they urge FG to release the official results of the election so as to provide 'closure' and some youths here who have never fought 4 anything they believed in are criticising the group.

What else would d group ask for on JUNE 12?

While some people whose hero chose to flee with his family rather than face his adversary and embrace looming death are here posting rubbish.

I hold Yoruba's in high regard their leaders (present tinubu to former yoruba leaders) have always shown a doggedness to fight their enemies without compromise...and if dey must. Die they embrace it.

Years after the Hillsborough tragedy of 1989 this year the official inquest report was finally released... does it bring the 96 dead fans back to life?

And u wonder why the whites call us monkeys...

Tinubu never fought a war. He never had bullets fired at him.
Abiola is a coward.
The same thing happened to the Igbos the started a war.
The sand thing happened to the yorubas and guess what?
They chickened out!
Kporkporkpooorr kpakporpkor.
Rooster of a tribe.

saintdennis:
SMH @ previous comments...maybe all the 'sane, literates' on NL are in church or busy right now sha because all previous comments can be summed up as 'foolish'

Today is June 12 2016, the Yoruba's mark it as a day to remember. M.K.O abiola.

Now on this important day they urge FG to release the official results of the election so as to provide 'closure' and some youths here who have never fought 4 anything they believed in are criticising the group.

What else would d group ask for on JUNE 12?

While some people whose hero chose to flee with his family rather than face his adversary and embrace looming death are here posting rubbish.

I hold Yoruba's in high regard their leaders (present tinubu to former yoruba leaders) have always shown a doggedness to fight their enemies without compromise...and if dey must. Die they embrace it.

Years after the Hillsborough tragedy of 1989 this year the official inquest report was finally released... does it bring the 96 dead fans back to life?

And u wonder why the whites call us monkeys...

Tinubu never fought a war. He never had bullets fired at him.
Abiola is a coward.
The same thing happened to the Igbos; they started a war.
The same thing happened to the yorubas and guess what?
They chickened out!
Kporkporkpooorr kpakporpkor!
Rooster of a tribe.

Ndi nzuzu they didn't demand for the election results when Obasanjo was in power, why now?

Come to think of it why so many agitation under Buhari nawaoh oooo

PhilemonObende:


you yoruba unbelievers must join hands with we yoruba muslims to deal with the ibos. yorubaland belongs to Allah! Allah is bringing Sharia to nigeria and unbelievers like Rev. Gbonigi , Olu falae and Femi will face sharia for confronting our fulani rulers.

Abeg. Shey Yoruba Muslims dey like kiss Fulani feet too.
Since dem be una master?
Chai.

guyXander:

Tinubu never fought a war. He never had bullets fired at him.
Abiola is a coward.
The same thing happened to the Igbos the started a war.
The sand thing happened to the yorubas and guess what?
They chickened out!
Kporkporkpooorr kpakporpkor.
Rooster of a tribe.

Sorry but refusing to fight a war doesn't make one a coward.

My guy I put it to you that the igbo leaders (especially ojukwu) were stupid.

They could have asked igbos to return then meet the FG to discuss the pogroms and ultimately the hatchet would have been buried...or haven't u asked yourself how come after the war igbos are now so many in the north again? Go to unimaid (borno) and count the igbos there.

A whole ethnic group got missiled into supporting a war led by an embittered soldier? Can't that ethnic group be termed fools?

If ojukwu was actually passionate about the war, about biafra independence why did he flee? Go through the history books and show me an idealist who believed in his cause then actually 'fled'?
Uwazurike used 2 good years in an underground detention facility, he came out and his 'non-violence' stand still remains... I put it to u he's braver than ojukwu and should be your standard.

Not chest beating and calling smart people cowards.

odinese:
[size=15pt]fvck buhari fvck nigeria[/size] I CAN SIGHT MYND100 LOOKING FOR WHO TO BAN

Afenifere don kolo! Was it Buhari that conducted the poll? Why didn't you ask Abacha, Abdulsalam, Obasanjo, Yaradua or Jonathan to release the result? Una kno get work. Nigerians are roasting under the regime of change, all you could remember is Abiola and June 12. Will that make Buhari have mercy on us? Group of expired politicians!

OduduwaYoruba:
At this critical moment, what Pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG should be agitating for for now is:
1) Fiscal Federalism
2) Secession Plans if Biafra leaves tomorrow
3) Resource control
4) Addressing lopsidedness in Military and civil service
5) 80 percent stake in South west water ways and land borders.

I beg to disagree with some of our Yoruba National Loyalists claiming that all is well with the South West, I must confess that all is not well, the weak ones among us are suffering too much. As the popular music says "Suffering and Smiling". Why the so called loyalists are upright and firm in their decision that affect all and sundry but such kind gesture is never being reciprocated most especially in the Northern part of Nigeria. Obasanjo willingly handed over Power to Shagari but Babangida deliberately refused to hand over Power to Abiola. How can Nigeria be a circular state while Sharia is going on in some states in the north, these is a high level of abuse. Look at the recent killing spree in the north and south being perpetrated by the northerner and none of the killer advocate has been brought to book. I think it is high time we the Yoruba youth take our destiny in our hand because our so called Elders are after their pockets. The decision we take today will either make or Mar us in time to come as currently being experience in Kwara State.
Your logical input is highly welcome and note that this is no longer a jokes as usual, the matter at hand affect you and I and also generation yet Unborn.




http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/release-results-of-june-12-1993-presidential-poll-afenifere-group-urges-buhari/

I.T.T. International Thief Thief........Fela

You are a fool. Go and bring useless sharia that's when you will know southwest is differ from north. You don't just sit in one corner of your room and type nonsense. Go to hell. Oloriburuku.

This day, June 12 will always be remembered by those who have defied the culture of silence and conspiracy against a significant moment in Nigerian history, to remind us of how today, 23 years ago, the battle against the exit of the military from power was fought at the ballot by a determined Nigerian people.
It is indeed sad that apart from the South West states of Oyo, Ogun, Lagos and Osun which have doggedly continued to celebrate the hero, and later martyr of that battle, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola, there has been studied indifference to the June 12 phenomenon by the Federal Government and remarkably, the rest of Nigeria.
This is sadder still because MKO Abiola was not an ethnic champion: he was a man of pan-Nigerian vision and ambition, who went into politics to give the people hope, to unite them and lead them out of poverty. His campaign manifesto was instructively titled “Hope 93- Farewell to Poverty: How to make Nigeria a better place for all.

”When Nigerians voted in the presidential election of June 12, 1993, they chose the Muslim-Muslim ticket of MKO Abiola and Baba Gana Kingibe under the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). MKO Abiola not only defeated the Presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC), Bashir Tofa in his home state of Kano, he also defeated him “fairly and squarely” with “58.4% of the popular vote and a majority in 20 out of 30 states and the FCT.”

That election was adjudged to be free and fair, and peaceful. But the Ibrahim Babangida-led military government had been playing games with the transition-to-civilian rule, and so it chose not to announce the final results of the election, and later on June 23, 1993, the Presidential election was annulled.

This was a coup against the Nigerian people, and an act of brazen injustice, but June 12 will go down in history as the birthday of the revolution that swept the Nigerian military back to the barracks. The media began to refer to MKO Abiola as “the man widely believed to have won the June 12, 1993 election”, or perhaps, “the undeclared winner” but those who played key roles at the time, including Humphrey Nwosu, the chief electoral umpire, have since confessed that “their hands were tied”, and that indeed MKO Abiola won the election. General Ibrahim Babangida, then Head of State, has not been able to live down that error of judgement. It was the final error that also consumed his government, forcing him to “step aside”, and as it turned out “step away”.

He left behind an Interim National Government (ING) led by Chief Ernest Shonekan who was handpicked for the assignment, but the ING contrivance only survived for 83 days; in November 1993, General Sani Abacha, who was in the ING as Minister of Defence, seized power. It was obvious that the military never wanted to relinquish power.

June 12 brought out the worst and the best in the people: the worst in the military and its hungry agents definitely, but the injustice of its annulment released the people’s energy and capacity for protest. Progressive Nigerians spoke in unison against military tyranny and the violation of their right to choose. The Abacha government, which had initially deceived the progressives about its intentions, unleashed a reign of terror on the country: media houses were attacked, journalists were jailed, bombed, beaten, civil society activists were hauled into detention. But the repression was met with stiff resistance.

The people insisted on the election of June 12, the military’s exit and Abiola’s declaration as winner of the election. On June 11, 1994, in what is now known as the Epetedo declaration, Chief MKO Abiola declared a Government of National Unity and asked for his mandate to be duly recognized. He was subsequently arrested for treasonable felony, but that only added fuel to the protests. Abiola later died in custody on July 7, 1998, a month to the day, after General Sani Abacha himself died.

But the real outcome was that the military had been branded evil, and the people would accept nothing but the end of military rule. This was the scenario that led to the return to democratic rule on May 29, 1999, and the specific choice of a political figure from the South West to assuage the expressed fears of the South West that the denial of MKO Abiola’s mandate was an assault on the right of the South West.

The ethnicization of the June 12 protest was unfortunate because indeed the struggle against tyranny recruited foot soldiers from virtually every part of the country, international support also gave the struggle higher relevance; those were the days when serving foreign diplomats joined pro-democracy protesters to wave placards on the streets. Many died, and they were all from across Nigeria, businesses were affected, but the people were determined to make the sacrifice. It was that revolution that made May 29, 1999 possible, and if any date is deserving of celebration, it is June 12.

The irony is that those who benefited most from MKO Abiola’s martyrdom do not want to be reminded of him. And those who used to talk about injustice have since, given the opportunity, inflicted their own injustice on the people. Those who used to swear by Abiola’s name have since found new political patrons. Those who proclaimed Abiola as the symbol of democracy and the rallying point for the people’s hopes have since been dancing on his grave. Successive federal administrations since 1999, have also failed to redress the injustice of 1993, by doing the minimum of declaring June 12 a national holiday.

There have been suggestions along this line, including the possibility of a post-humous national honour (the only constraint here is that the national honour is not awarded post-humously although there is nothing that expressly forbids this in the enabling Act), or the naming of a major national monument after MKO, or the official admission that the June 12, 1993 election was indeed won and lost and was not in any way inconclusive.

Truth: Nigeria forgets too soon, too easily. For, when indeed the Jonathan administration tried to address this injustice by naming a significant national institution after MKO Abiola, the attempt resulted in controversy and a storm. The last paragraph of then President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2012 Democracy Day speech had renamed the University of Lagos after MKO Abiola. Both the students and staff trooped to the streets in protest. They rejected the name-change and declared that their university’s name is a brand that nobody, not even the Federal Government of Nigeria could tamper with, in honour of anybody, living or dead.

They said they were not consulted and the University Act had not been amended. Politics and opportunism was read into the gesture, and the government had to eat the humble pie. Would the reaction be different if another government were to take the same step, the same way the reaction to the increase in the pump price of petroleum products has been different this year, under a different dispensation?

MKO Abiola was a victim of military politics and conspiracy, now his martyrdom and legacy seem lost in the intricate web of conditioned amnesia and the ego of those who continue to compete with his memory. In a country where history is no longer taught, and there are no well-managed museums and monuments to make history part of the public landscape, a generation is already emerging, like the generation of UNILAG students in 2012, who may someday ask: who is MKO Abiola? Those who refuse to teach history run the risk of producing children who may lack the capacity to remember and the wisdom to appreciate history’s many lessons.

Those who insist speculatively that MKO Abiola could not have been a good President also miss the point about his example and legacy: his martyrdom shaped the architecture of much that happened subsequently in Nigerian history, and it is not the military’s duty to veto the people of Nigeria. The military have been shipped out of power for good, they can only return as they have been doing as retired soldiers, and whatever happens with our democracy, the people are resolved that nobody can annul their right to choose, and it is part of their right to choose, to sometimes make mistakes and learn. The various state governments and civil groups that remember and celebrate MKO Abiola every year deserve a pat on the back for defying amnesia. June 12 is ultimately not just about one man who became a symbol; it is also about the collective struggle against military tyranny, a reminder of people power and the value of civil society; it is that historical moment when Nigerians voted for change and stood by it.

On this occasion of the 23rd anniversary, may the words of MKO Abiola at Epetedo on June 11, 1994 prick our conscience: “People of Nigeria, exactly one year ago, you turned out in your millions to vote for me, Chief MKO Abiola as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. But politicians in uniform, who call themselves soldiers but are more devious than any civilian would want to be, deprived you of your God-given right to be ruled by the President you had yourselves elected. These soldier-politicians introduced into our body politic, a concept hitherto unknown to our political lexicography, something strangely called the “annulment” of an election perceived by all to have been the fairest, cleanest and most peaceful ever held in our nation.
“…My hope has always been to arouse whatever remnants of patriotism are left in the hearts of these thieves of your mandate, and to persuade them that they should not allow their personal desire to rule to usher our beloved country into an ear of political instability and ruin…
“Instead they have resorted to the tactics of divide and rule, bribery, and political perfidy, misinformation and (vile) propaganda. How much longer can we tolerate all this? There is no humiliation I have not endured, no snare that has not been put in my path, no “setup” that has not been designed for me in my endeavor to use the path of peace to enforce the mandate that you bestowed on me one year ago. It has been a long night. But the dawn is here. Today people of Nigeria, I join you all in saying, “Enough is Enough!”…Enough of military rule...Enough of square pegs in round holes…”