What June 12 1993 was Not, By Adeola Soetan

What June 12 1993 was Not, By Adeola Soetan

June 12 election was not about ethnicity, tribal contempt, religious hatred, election rigging, ballot snatching, political thuggery, empty sloganeering, mass poverty, police brutality and other social vices that perpetually divide the people and destroy a nation while rogue politicians are always united in looting, profligacy and power greed.

These were the reasons why MKO Abiola, a Yoruba man from Ogun state & presidential candidate of SDP defeated Bashir Tofa, a Fulani man from Kano state & presidential candidate of NRC, in his home state of, Kano with a wide margin. He won many states in the north, SS, SE, and SW..Jonathan Zwingina, a Christian from Adamawa was Abiola’s right hand man & HOPE 93 Campaign DG throughout the campaign period.

On Jun 12, Voters came out enmasse to vote peacefully for the candidates of their choice. No Igbo for Igbo candidate, Hausa-Fumani for the northern candidate or Yoruba votes for Yoruba Candidate nonsense by the two presidential candidates. . People voted for their preferred choice based on program, integrity and hope of performance by candidates.

That’s the real lesson of June 12 election won overwhelmingly by MKO Abiola. The criminal annulment of June 12 by IBB rogue junta sparked off protests across Nigeria with thousands of citizens killed, maimed or killed before IBB used unprincipled politicians to give June 12 struggle false ethnic biases because of their power greed & rotten compromise,.

The same rotten compromise was ably displayed recently when many of these unprincipled politicians gathered in Abuja to celebrate Babangida the general who annulled June 12 election where he publicly presented a book of falsification of history

Unprincipled bourgeois politicians are the same, it’s WE the people who own the power of votes that should vote conscientiously for candidates beyond ethnic, religious, tribal and other primordial sentiments. That is the real meaning of JUNE 12.