June 12: Abiola’s ideals yet to be actualized ―Ajimobi

GOVERNOR Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has decried that 24 years after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the ideals that acclaimed winner, Chief Moshood Abiola stood for were yet to be actualised.

Ajimobi, in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy, identified those ideals as Abiola’s commitment to freeing the masses from oppression and poverty, injustice, insecurity, and the promotion and institutionalization of good governance.

Ajimobi who noted that the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election was a turning point in the annals of the country, prayed that the sacrifice of those souls lost in the struggle would not be in vain if those ideals were actualized.

“It was this conviction that Nigerian masses should be freed from their oppressors and that the destiny of the whole nation should not be held to ransom by a cabal that propelled him to stand by his mandate and to defend it to the last.”

“The democracy that we all are enjoying now was made possible by the likes of Chief Abiola, Chief Abraham Adesanya, Chief Anthony Enahoro, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Chief Frank Kokori, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and others too numerous to mention.”

“This is why we must not allow any circumstance to wipe out the memory of June 12; the day that Nigerians, irrespective of their ethnic or religious affiliations, decided to take their destinies in their own hands by voting overwhelmingly for a man after their heart.”

“This ideal of good governance that is centred on development remains the driving force of our administration. We fervently believe that this is what MKO would have wished for. That is why we would continue to follow in that path in order to keep his memory alive,” Ajimobi said.