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Yourprick:
It’s Not Too Late To Punish Babangida For June 12 Election Annulment, Other Crimes—Even If It’s One Day Before His Death –Sowore
I never really admired Sowore till today. Walhai, he really spoke my mind. But Sowore, don’t feel that he will not one day bring to book. Ofcouse it may not be but the hereafter. I remember crying my eyes out over that annulment. Though truth be told, Abiola himself, apart from his philanthropic efforts here and there was not the messiah that would have transformed the country but atleast his mandate would have deepened our democratic history. That annulment with the coup of 1966 compound our country development.


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Yourprick:
It’s Not Too Late To Punish Babangida For June 12 Election Annulment, Other Crimes—Even If It’s One Day Before His Death –Sowore



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OkpaNsukkaisBae:
What will you do to the man who attended a school in 1970 meanwhile the school was established in 1974

Yourprick:
It’s Not Too Late To Punish Babangida For June 12 Election Annulment, Other Crimes—Even If It’s One Day Before His Death –Sowore



https://saharareporters.com/2025/02/21/its-not-too-late-punish-babangida-june-12-election-annulment-other-crimes-even-if-its

BafanaBafana:
And Jonathan, that looted Nigeria into recession

nairalanda1:
No, it's more like Nigerians seeing their leaders as a means to getting national cake.

Arresting said leader means their access to the cake is under threat. So, anarchy results.

Even if we split the country, the same thing will happen in the new countries, even in the ethnically homogenous ones.

Nigerians need to stop seeing the economy as a cake to be shared and maybe we may start seeing some leaders in jail.

South Korea has jailed past leaders. It is also an industrial country not a country reliant on exporting a resource and sharing the money. So people expect the government to support their means of contributing to the economy not sitting down and waiting for oil money. As a result the government there is on its toes

ogaemma:
I am expecting the Abacha family to come out and make an official statement to counter the lies and allegations IBB made against their Late Father's memory.
They should also file charge's against IBB for defamation.
What a weak way to tell lie's at old age and try to play the victim.
He waited for all his Service Chief's to die and also closely waited for General Useni who was Abacha's best friend to die very recently before coming out to offload his 32 year's old lies.

SmartPolician:
Stop assuming things

givedemwotowoto:
Since IBB's book launch, only one group of people have been going bunkers. Agbadorians! These people are afraid of Nigerians uniting. They thrive on Nigeria's division along tribal and religious lines. Who knew all this while

nairalanda1:
GEJ was corrupt, but if he had not looted, Nigeria would have still gone into recession.

The problem was that in April 2014 , oil prices started falling. Keep in mind that even now 80 percent of government revenue comes from oil and you will see why we were borrowing to pay for salaries towards the tail end of GEJ regime. And why buhari and even tinubu for some time did same.

The only way to avert this would have been to tax the majority of Nigeria s who do not pay income tax. Which is not politically popular.


We.were here before. 1982.

nairalanda1:
As proof, see what is happening in the states

In edo state which is supposedly homogenous, the last election had people refusing to.vote.for lp because their governorship candidate was from the wrong zone.

Or the VC selection in a university in the SE where all the three main candidates were Igbo and all of them qualified by far, yet the people of the host city said it must be from them. As if government was going to put a hausa man in charge.

Or the selection of the provost of a polytechnic in ekiti. Where ekiti people were protesting because the provost was from Oyo state.

That's why I have no hope.

Note that I did not say that you should not agitate for secession. In the end, splitting up of countries is a common event in history. But assuming that everyone would love one another because same tribe is asking for a lot.

And it is worsened by our view of the economy as a cake to be shared. Not as a means to be more productive

SmartPolician:
Bros, stop writing this long epistle. All this NONSENSE we see in this country is that Nigerians don't love this country. Even those who support people in government want their share of the largesse.

When a people genuinely love their country, there will be justice, equity and fairness. These are values that we can never have in Nigeria because the focus is on tribe and self, not love for country.

Go and read There Was a Country. You will read Chinua Achebe's accounts of how many of people (both Igbo and non-Igbo technocrats) served Biafra for free. They gave everything without asking for anything in return. That's lovely for country.

Nigeria is built on fallacy. How many Nigerians can work for Nigeria for free? Again, don't say things you don't know. Nigeria is a jungle and everyone is trying to survive, using the worst-possie means to achieve that. Hence, there's no love for country (patriotism).

brain54:
Let's take it one at a time...

Ibb is the subject of discuss here. In court do they judge all the criminal cases at a go?

Life na per head... When it reach time to punish the "drug pusher" then they will talk about his case.

Stop causing confusion!

givedemwotowoto:
Since IBB's book launch, only one group of people have been going bunkers. Agbadorians! These people are afraid of Nigerians uniting. They thrive on Nigeria's division along tribal and religious lines. Who knew all this while

Yourprick:
It’s Not Too Late To Punish Babangida For June 12 Election Annulment, Other Crimes—Even If It’s One Day Before His Death –Sowore



https://saharareporters.com/2025/02/21/its-not-too-late-punish-babangida-june-12-election-annulment-other-crimes-even-if-its

emmylight4u:
The annulment of June 12 is worse than coup. Without consequences, evil will continue to prevail and spread.

I hope after some years, someone will not come and apologize to us that Peter Obi actually won the election. I'm just thinking.

McLizbae:
Matter of fat, ibb just confessed to his crimes. Judgment for drug pusher may have to come when he is found guilty or may be declare himself guilty like ibb.

nairalanda1:
Doubt that anything would come out of it

As much as I hate to say this, had ibb gone ahead to install abiola, there would have been massive crisis.

God knows how much I hate all our army rule, yes even Gowon, but the problem is that many Nigerians think that the only way that they can enjoy government is if their son is in power. And in 1993, many northerners were of that opinion and they had the army in their back. Ibb was between a rock and a hard place


Also the problem with Nigerians is that we like bad things when it favors us. See how some GEJ loyalists were telling him not to hand over power to buhari when it would have violated the laws of the land. ( It's because most of them were from various tribes that we don't read tribal stuff into it)


Nigerians have to stop seeing government as a place where you get your share of the cake. Even if we split up, the same attitude is going to persist. It needs to change.

What ibb did was wrong. But punishing him is not addressing the why

Judolisco:
only one group of people have been celebrating and worshipping ibb......since he released the book....someone said a jnr soldier annuled the election and not him....and u want us to believe him.....u think we are like you people that 1 person in far away Finland asked you not to come out every Monday and you and your governors complied....

brain54:
Where is the crime he admitted to...?


If anything he dodged responsibility for a crime. Shifting it to someone else.

Get a grip of your emotions so you don't sound like a petty 3 year old.

Wait a minute... You could even be one!