If there is a takeaway from the euphoria of celebrations that accompanied the June 12 investiture of honours on the presumed winner of the annulled 1993 presidential elections, Chief MKO Abiola, it is the fact that there is renewed hope in the positive destination of Nigeria.

For nearly a quarter of a century after the Ibrahim Babangida led junta annulled the June 12 elections, a majority of the Nigerian electorate lost faith in the country's leadership. Leader after leader, from the interim arrangement led by Ernest Shonekan to President Goodluck Jonathan, the masses longed for a leader they could believe in but sadly couldn’t find one.

While the right words come during presidential campaigns, the hope placed on the leader usually fizzled out when the president assumes the mantle fully, with accusations of cronyism and nepotism renting the air. Without a leader to carry their hopes, Nigerians, masses and elite alike, would after each election cycle return to their various domains, embittered and full of regrets for another four years.

The belief the country could one day become great again goes to the cooler for another 4 years. All that changed on June 12, 2018, when President Buhari gave out the special national honours to heal the wounds in the land, largely brought about by the injustice that followed the June 12 agitation.

President Buhari's graceful gesture not only rekindled the hope of a new Nigeria to Chief MKO Abiola’s family but to every Nigerian across the length and breadth of the country...

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The significance will only dwell amongst the abiola family and will hardly be felt by nigerians especially when leaders like buhari haven't done anything to show that he his a democratic being .

Buhari is the real opposite of democracy ,from human rights abuses to disobedience of court orders and being unable to protect the people whom he swore on oath to.

There is no new dawn anything Nigerians cannot be deceived.

I don't understand what Op means by real dawn....
just coz of yoruba June 12,,,

I think we can look at this form another perspective. What Buhari did is not symbolic for only the Abiola family. What he did was for the greatness of democracy. For the strength of a better future. For the hopes of a greater tomorrow

magoo10:
The significance will only dwell amongst the abiola family and will hardly be felt by nigerians especially when leaders like buhari haven't done anything to show that he his a democratic being .

Buhari is the real opposite of democracy ,from human rights abuses to disobedience of court orders and being unable to protect the people whom he swore on oath to.

There is no new dawn anything Nigerians cannot be deceived.

Babayero212:
I think we can look at this form another perspective. What Buhari did is not symbolic for only the Abiola family. What he did was for the greatness of democracy. For the strength of a better future. For the hopes of a greater tomorrow

And you think nobody recognized the symbol of june12 all this while and the disservice those who annulled it did to Nigeria democracy ?

You cannot be talking of new dawn when those who brought this rape to democracy are still walking free and some of whom are part of this government just trying to deceive the gullible minded .
There is the wild belief that the move was done to score a political point and spite some people through sectional party lines. and if this is true I do not think logically that it will represent a new dawn other than to the abiola family in particular because every other Yoruba man and indeed democratic Nigerians have always recognized june12 and its significance to democracy.