Activists Celebrates June 12 In Osun.

According to Barrister Shenge Rahaman,
Comrades. Waheed Lawal and Wale Adebisi while speaking on a Theme. “June 12 and The Twin Imperatives of Democracy and Resolution of The National Question” during a Press Conference to commemorate the June 12 at Ola-Oni building in Osogbo on Monday, twenty four (24) years after the historic election which remains the freest and fairest in the Nation’s history, they described this year’s edition of the commemoration of that historic event as the one that offers all lovers of democracy in the land a golden opportunity to reflect deeply on the State of the Union with particular focus on the clear danger to the Democratic existence as well as peaceful and progressive co-existence.

According to the organisers, “We call on citizens of Nigeria at home and abroad to put on our thinking caps and begin to act as subjects of History rather than objects who are always  at the receiving end of a manipulating ruling elite.
“We must remember  that the historical  significance of June 12 we are commemorating today lies in the Power of Citizen’s Action which was demonstrated on that day by voters across the country who trooped out en masse to the  polling booths to end military dictatorship”.

They added further that, “This exercise of people’s power was given further and stronger expression with the unrelenting resistance put up by popular forces against the annulment  of the results of that election  by the  Babangida led dictatorship.The Shonekan  led  Interim contraption met a similar fate in the hands of our people who actively  demonstrated their hostility on the streets and through other forms of political action.
General Abacha’s bestiality was unable to break the resolve of determined sections of of our people who responded with a low intensity warfare till the end”.

The Activists emphasised that, there is no better way to celebrate the remembrance of June 12 than for us to as a nation to acknowledge and salute the great sacrifice made by the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 election, Chief MKO Abiola with his life and those who also lost their life and struggle, both the Igbo’s, Hausa’s and Yoruba’s which today has in turn given birth to the present democracy being enjoyed in the country.

Reported by Richard Akintade, Osogbo