The month of June has always brought back fond memories to Nigerians. It was this month that Nigeria conducted the freest, fairest and most credible election of her chequered political history
. It was this same month that the heroine of the struggle against military and dictatorship, Kudirat Abiola was murdered in cold blood. Yet it was this month that the dark-goggle general, the Nigerian maximum ruler, Sani Abacha drop dead.
Now, compare the above with June 8th, the day Abacha suddenly died and you will noticed the huge difference in the way and manner the public perceive it and the reactions that normally trailed it. While a day after is used to celebrate a hero, a fighter and a martyr who gave her life to a struggle; June 8th on the other hand, is a day reserved to pour venom and abuse on a corrupt dictator and a maximum ruler, who used raw power to silence opposition.
I happened to be in Kano at that time. After voting at a polling station along Hadejia road, one of the voters, a Yoruba guy who I later discovered was a banker, could not hold himself and he started a conversation with me on what he saw as the uniqueness of what was happening before our very eyes. We saw the long queue made up of mostly Hausas queuing in front of the picture of Abiola.
Till now Babangida has not told us the reason for the annulment; he has not convincingly told his side of the story on why the mandate freely and willfully given to Abiola by majority of Nigerians can be so callously stolen by a few rapacious and parasitic elements in the military.
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