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like for ronaldo, share for messi. |
is it not their fault. |
and u all saying this snake can't swallow 36m |
why the coach need to dropped icardi and bring flop higuan?. the answer is that messi and icardi are not friends and messi chose with the coach the selection of d team to world cup. so don't think messi is a nice guy, but green snake under d green grass. |
why blaming other players. why can't messi score all his important penalties. are d remains players that play d penalties for him also?. messi has missed four out of his last 7 penalties. must he be playing penalties when he already knew he has lost confidence in taking penalties. but he wunt do it because he want to be scoring goals. |
where is d biography pls. |
like for Madrid as d best team in d world. |
my own is that what is d usefulness of VAR when Diego costa foul on pepe before his goal can stand even when protested. |
the line wunt connect. |
but all of u politicians are sharing it among yourselves. |
olosho, ewo awon olosho. |
continue hyping d Jersey when others are serious to football. |
like for ronaldo pls. |
I don't think that will be d best thing for them by now. they shud make sure dey sign ferk from Lyon or isco from Madrid. |
king of football. |
wicked world we are. |
na Ramadan caused am. |
sarka maje. |
okoroawusa |
rest on. I don't know why celebrities can't help each other, during d time of help. but dey can buy 1m naira bag. |
and u think dey have interest of people. they all fighting for their pockets. |
what is special about salah pls. |
buhariguy pls be sincere for once. am not any politicians fan but suffering is too much in d land. let call a spade a spade. buhari disappointed many people that voted for him, including me and u. |
APC for sale on OLX at auction price of $500 |
don't worry pls. electric train will soon come. |
lalalala |
eja nla, bangalee eyan ti tontolet |
I can't see d sexy. |
mumu post. |
so davido dey beg am ni. also, where is davido private jet. |
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Annulment was payment for Abiola’s evil deeds – Sen
Owie
ON June 12, 2013 12:18 AM / IN Politics, Top
Stories / Comments
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.
What is your perspective on the June 12, 1993 election?
When people talk about June 12, June 12; June 12 has
no meaning. June 12 is the repayment of evil for MKO
Abiola. Whatever you sow, you reap. I said about four
years ago that if Abiola had been president he would have
been dead.
You think so?
Yes, let me tell you. Before anyone can say that the
annulment was evil they should answer four questions.
Number one, who was that politician that brought what
was called the Maroko land deal to limelight? Who was
that politician who used the Maroko land deal as an
albatross on the neck of Chief Obafemi Awolowo? Who is
that Nigerian or group of Nigerians who went to Obasanjo
and connived with him and removed the Electoral College
act from the decree of 1978?
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? 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. But if
the answer is yes and it’s MKO Abiola, the annulment of
June 12 was the best thing that happened because you
can’t plant mango and reap yam.
In 1979 I was in the UPN as a member of the House of
Representatives and there was a provision in the
transition decree of 1978/79 which made provision for
Electoral College if the presidential election became
inconclusive, and it really was inconclusive, because
Shagari did not get two-third of the 19 states. So, we
were preparing for Electoral College. NPP, GNPP, PRP
and UPN we had majority in the National Assembly which
constituted the Electoral College.
The late Mallam Aminu Kano of PRP, Alhaji Waziri
Ibrahim of GNPP, Nnamdi Azikiwe of NPP and 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.
Sen. Owie
The Electoral College was removed after the election
when we were getting ready for it and that was why
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.
Now NPN went for their national convention in Kano and
Umaru Dikko, he is alive, he said the presidential
candidate of the NPN is not for sale. 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.
But how do you see the June 12 election in terms of
electoral conduct and fairness?
The June 12 election because it was an open ballot and
had only two parties which cut across tribal lines was one
of the fairest elections ever held in this country. June 12
showed what a good government can do in an election. If
IBB and Aikhomu wanted to tamper with the election,
they could have tampered with the election, but they
didn’t. It was a free and fair election but what I am telling
you is that the annulment that came later was the hand of
Esau and the voice of Jacob.
What do you mean?
What happened was a repayment for evil.
But was that justified on the nation?
Yes! What I am saying is that it was God’s own work, it
was God’s own work.
For Abiola’s alleged sin of…
All the sins!
But did that justify the derailment of the collective hope
of Nigerians?
What is the collective hope of Nigerians?
Democracy
Was the Buhari coup against Shagari justified? Was that
the collective will of Nigerians?
That is debatable because many Nigerians welcomed the
coup just as majority of Nigerians were against the
annulment of June 12.
It is because you are a pressman. Do you know how
many people in my village that were not interested and
were happy with the annulment, even though some of us
were not happy.
You, were you happy with the annulment?
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.
The truth is that God does not come down to do some of
these things Himself. He uses human beings as
instruments and that is why when a man is looking for
elective or appointive position, maybe as LGA chairman,
governor, minister or president, he is looking for an
aspect of the divinity of God. It is out of that divinity that
the man in charge of affairs takes, compassion, service
to the people, ability to manage everybody, forgiveness.
Unfortunately, the moment you get that position and you
do not utilise it, not generally, just some part of it…if you
watch when Christ cured the ten lepers only one came
back to say thank you, but he said where are the other
nine? And if you read Hipppolytus he said that as soon as
Christ asked where are the nine that the leprosy returned
to the nine and they died of leprosy.
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good. but why can't ig honor senate invitations also. |
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