mko Abiola

October 18, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: Where does the South west go from Awo?

by Akin Osuntokun Lagos State has the appearance an impregnable fortress for the APC but a lot is hanging on how the departure of Governor Babatunde Fashola is managed. And if I were contending against the APC in Lagos right now, I will not be far from Alaba market and other similarly colonised havens of... Read More

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October 4, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: How fares the Northern hegemony

by Akin Osuntokun As the virulence of the Abacha dictatorship unfolded, it became clear that Northern military-regional hegemony had run its course and had given way to heedless and malevolent personal dictatorship. Abiola was persecuted unto death but so was Shehu Yaradua; Obasanjo was publicly disrobed but Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki had also been peremptorily deposed... Read More

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September 28, 2013

Salihu Tanko Yakasai: Al-Mustapha must stop acting like a political learner (Y! Politico)

by Salihu Tanko Yakasai You might be a Major in the Nigerian Army, one of the best that we had, but when it comes to politics, you are a bloody learner… I wanted to write an article about Major Hamza Al Mustapha when he was discharged and acquitted by the appeal court, Lagos division on... Read More

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Al-Mustapha did not kill Kudirat, he was a victim – Frederick Fasehun, OPC founder

by Akan Ido Dr. Frederick Fasheun, the founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress was recently seen accompanying Major Hamza al-Mustapha, the former CSO to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha to the ancient city of Kano after his release from prison. Hamza al-Mustapha was on trial for several years over his alleged complicity... Read More

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Simon Kolawole: Immunity is obviously not the problem

by Simon Kolawole We seem to have two sets of laws and two justice systems. One for the poor, the other for the powerful. A common man will be sentenced to death for murder; the big man will walk away free, to the embrace of an exuberant, ululating crowd. Was I surprised? No, I wasn’t.... Read More

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Army rules out promotion for al-Mustapha

by Rachel Ogbu The Nigerian Army has dispelled rumours that the former Chief Security Officer to Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, is to be decorated with the rank of Brig.-Gen on Wednesday (today). In a statement on Tuesday, the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.- Gen Ibrahim Attahiru described the rumours circulating on the internet... Read More

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“Nigerians are not ready for change; we deserve whatever government we get”: Dele Momodu speaks exclusively to YNaija (Conclusion)

by Wilfred Okiche At various points in his life he has been a teacher, journalist, public speaker, business man and presidential aspirant. In the conclusive part of the no-holds barred interview, Dele Momodu speaks more on the troubles bedevilling the nation and what can be done to remedy it. Enjoy. [READ: “When I say I want... Read More

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“When I say I want to run this nation, I know what I am saying”: Dele Momodu speaks exclusively to YNaija (Part 1)

by Wilfred Okiche Dele Momodu runs a pretty tight schedule. For 17 years, he has been the show runner of Ovation international magazine, the publication that changed the face of lifestyles in the country. At various points in his life he has been a teacher, journalist, public speaker, business man and presidential aspirant. YNaija sat... Read More

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Michael Orodare: June 12 and the lessons for ‘tomorrow’s leaders’

by Michael Orodare Now is the set time for negotiation as no meaningful negotiation comes after victory. The post-1993 experience is enough to learn from; not to be too fixated on struggle and ignoring the round table talk for power sharing. Though I was a boy during the hullabaloo that engulfed Nigeria after the 1993... Read More

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MKO Abiola’s Death: “I won’t talk for personal reasons” – Susan Rice

The outgoing permanent representative of the United States of America to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Susan Rice, has said that she will not make any comment on what transpired during the last moments of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, MKO Abiola, for personal reasons. Rice was the assistant secretary... Read More

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The unexpected blessings of June 12 – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze June 12 1993 was a blessing to Nigeria in my opinion. It gave us a chance to taste Abacha. You see, prior to Abacha, the closest we had come to a malevolent dictatorship was Buhari/Idiagbon. On a Channels TV programme on Sunday, I was asked how June 12, 1993 was for me.... Read More

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Opinion: June 12 – Synopsis of an eternal wound

by Wale Odunsi Continue to rest in peace, the President we never had they never allowed us have. The day was Saturday June 12, week 23 of the year 1993, the event was the much-awaited presidential election. Social Democratic Party’s Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola on one hand; National Republican Convention’s Bashir Othman Tofa on the other. A massive turn out... Read More

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There goes nothing: PDP fights against naming Osun airport after Abiola

by Rachel Ogbu The Peoples Democratic Party has said it is wrong of the Osun state government to name a Federal Government airport after MKO Abiola calling on Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola to abort the plan. On Tuesday, the Chairman, Osun PDP, Gani Olaoluwa said in a statement that it was off beam to... Read More

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Epetedo Declaration: “Today, I join you in saying, ‘Enough is Enough!'” – MKO Abiola [Read Full Text]

by Moshood Kashimawo Abiola No one can give you power. It is yours. Take it! From this day, show to the world that anyone who takes the people of Nigeria for fools is deceiving himself and will have the people to answer to. – Full text of the proclamation speech by the late M.K.O. Abiola... Read More

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Bola Ahmed Tinubu: June 12 is our beacon in the dark

by Bola Ahmed Tinubu In the end, there is no end. That is the essential lesson of June 12. A nation never keeps democracy except it continually fights for it. To slumber is to lose. These words from Charles Dickens befit the 20th anniversary of the most bittersweet event in the history of Nigerian electoral... Read More

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Femi Fani-Kayode: M.K.O Abiola, Susan Rice and the question of the missing one hour

by Femi Fani-Kayode Given these circumstances I have no doubt that this was a case of premeditated murder but the question is whose call was it and why did it have to happen? What was the motive? Susan Rice was up until recently the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Her long-standing aspiration of... Read More

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Sam Nda-Isaiah: Jonathan should start working and stop clapping for himself

by Sam Nda-Isaiah Nigerians cannot clap for the president because, as the late Chief MKO Abiola would have put it, “you cannot clap with one hand.” Many Nigerians have lost their limbs or their shirts or both under President Jonathan. President Jonathan’s mid-term report in which he scored himself A+ is still causing outrage across the... Read More

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February 22, 2013

It’s still UNILAG people! GEJ reverses controversial name change

by Rachel Ogbu This will come as good news to many as yesterday, President Goodluck Jonathan withdrew the name change of the University of Lagos which he renamed Moshood Abiola University. In a May 29 broadcast to mark the 2012 Democracy Day, President Jonathan had announced to rename the school in honour of Moshood Abiola,... Read More

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January 19, 2013

Ask yourself honestly, what exactly are we fighting for? (#NewLeadership Series by Chude Jideonwo)

Maybe the nation’s thought leaders should instead ask themselves: why haven’t we yet told a coherent tale; one that has a mass appeal and that can drive a national movement? I began to worry last year when I sat down after the elections and asked myself – when young people say they want “change”, do... Read More

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For the Records: The June 12 election annulment speech of General Ibrahim Babangida, June 26, 1993

Fellow Nigerians, I address you today with a deep sense of world history and particularly of the history of our great country. In the aftermath of the recently annulled Presidential Election, I feel, as I believe you yourself feel, a profound sense of disappointment at the outcome of our last efforts at laying the foundation... Read More

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Dele Momodu: Doing right the right way

Fellow Nigerians, what could have been a most glorious week for Nigerians, and President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in particular, was botched again big time. Since 1993, when the best election ever in Nigeria was conducted on June 12, most members of the privilegentsia had refused to acknowledge the importance of that election which was clearly... Read More

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