June 12 Was Not A Date, It Was History, By Owei Lakemfa - Premium Times Opinion

Opinion: June 12 Was Not A Date, It Was History, By Owei Lakemfa

He wanted the voters register review disrupted or stopped. Abiola had no troops on ground to execute this, so he reached out to the CD through Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Beko, Fasehun and I had a meeting with Tinubu in his Victoria Island office. All we requested was the placement of CD adverts, asking the populace to boycott the voters review, the printing of mobilisation materials, and for Lagos, the provision of ten to fifteen 911 buses. Beko asked me to coordinate the operation.

When the review commenced, we moved into action across the country, effectively disrupting the exercise. The Lagos operation was generally easy; the electoral officials were mainly teachers and they handed over the review materials without any protest. In some cases, they helped us load the materials into our buses as the police looked on.

All the CD did was appeal to Nigerians to take their destinies in their hands and right the criminal wrongs of the military junta. We paid no stipends, no allowances, no ‘man no be wood’ and provided no food. The costs were just fuelled buses, leaflets and two newspaper adverts. The youths and students who carried out this clinical operation were not only prepared to sacrifice their vocation, jobs or education, but also their lives. So it would have been an insult to offer them any inducement.

There indeed was a country called Nigeria where boys and girls, women and men were ready to sacrifice all they had, and some, indeed, paid the supreme sacrifice. There is truly a country called Nigeria, where despite the monetisation of governance and serial betrayals of the peoples’ trust, there are Nigerians willing to stand up to be counted.

Those who believe every Nigerian has a price, are delusionary; show me ten traitors, and I can rally a thousand patriots willing to take them down. Share this:

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