![]() ![]() ![]() The Senate President is from the core Muslim north. In Buhari’s Nigeria the President is from the core Muslim north. And this presents us with a very different set of challenges which have resulted in a far greater existential threat to our country than the annulment of Abiola’s June 12th presidential mandate and his subsequent murder ever did.Ĭonsider the following. I say this because the Nigeria of today is the Nigeria of Buhari and not the Nigeria of Abiola. Yet this noble gesture, as commendable as it is, may well be too little and too late. I commend the Buhari administration for naming June 12th as our nation’s Democracy Day and I believe that Abiola deserves it. He was the symbol and rallying point of the struggle and both he and his wife Kudirat sacrificed their lives for it. This was an intellectual, spiritual, physical, emotional and psychological conflict and struggle and we threw everything that we had into it.Ĭhief MKO Abiola was our hero and leader. Gbolabo Ogunsanwo, Justice Adewale Thompson and the great Chinwezu kept us going, fuelled our courage, stirred our passion, inspired our spirits and ignited souls with their powerful essays which we read eagerly and voraciously wherever we found ourselves in the world. Great essayists, keen minds and profound writers and thinkers like Professor Adebayo Williams, Professor Wole Soyinka, Mr. Many were martyred, many were jailed, many were tortured and many were compelled to flee into exile. I can confirm that because I was deeply involved in it and for many years I, along with many others, fought for it’s actualisation. It was also something of a nightmare which littered our fields with many corpses and soaked the very foundation of our nation with blood, sweat and tears. The struggle for June 12th was indeed a noble, worthy, cataclysmic and monumental one. Today is June 12th, our nation’s Democracy Day and I have some home truths to tell. “Must we wait until we are slaughtered like flies and buried in mass graves like the Biafrans, Bosnians, Tutsis, Jews and others, before our eyes open and we demand to leave this tinderbox?” Below, is a narrative by Femi Fani-Kayode.
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