OPINION BY TUNDE AKANNI: Olisa Agbakoba as zero to ability genius | TheCable
been any basis to struggle in the media for attention on a day already officially and repeatedly faulted as the contraption of one man alone who had proclaimed himself to be an evil genius. But Olisa means other things on the contrary. He remains the head, the fountain and indeed the very source of hope for many of us in the human rights movement in Nigeria to date.
OA, as we hailed the CLO president then, had staked his life to lead a five-million-man march beginning from Yaba against the fascist regime. It was a counterforce against Abacha’s grand falsehood in Abuja in the form of a one-million-man march he had funded to advertise unfounded support for his dictatorship. My audience at Columbia University felt a palpable pity for me.
My enlistment as a staff of CLO was at the instance of my brother and lifelong schoolmate and career twin, Professor Ismail Ibraheem, now director of International Liaison at the University of Lagos. Ismail was the editor of Liberty Magazine published by CLO but extended his interest in serving CLO to media relations.
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