Obasanjo laments annulment of June 12, 1993 election
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By James Ogunnaike
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday lamented the annulment of June 12, 1993, Presidential election presumably won by late philanthropist, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, blaming the annulment on “bad belle.”
Obasanjo said the annulment robbed Egbaland and Ogun State the rare privilege of having three of its prominent sons occupying the number one leadership position in the country at different times till date since independence.
Chief Obasanjo spoke at the 46th President Party of Abeokuta Club held on Sunday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The elder statesman who was referring to former Head of Interim National Government(ING), Chief Ernest Shonekan, himself who governed the country first as a military Head of States and a civilian president, noted that Abiola would have become the third, if 1993 poll was not annulled.
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Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Sunday, declared that June 12, 1993, presidential election said to have been won by late business mogul, Chief MKO Abiola, was annulled on ‘bad belle’.
He said this shortly after his investiture .c.f.,ras a Trustee and the conferment of Late Abiola as Vice President of the Club posthumously, at the 46th President party of the prestigious Abeokuta Club, founded in 1972.
The octogenarian opined that if the election was not annulled, Egbaland would have gotten the opportunity of producing three prominent sons as number one citizens at different times.
Recall that Obasanjo was military Head of State and later a democratically elected president, with Chief Ernest Shonekan as Head of Interim National Government while Abiola would have become the third Egba indigene to administer the country if not for the annulment.
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Nobel laureate, Prof. Wọlé Soyinka has suggested that any state of the federation, where a child is kidnapped should shut down governments or operation until the victim is rescued.
Soyinka, a poet and playwright, also challenged other states to shut down some of their activities in solidarity with their counterparts that had been under the attack of banditry, kidnappers and other criminal elements.
He made this suggestion at an award lecture and public presentation of his new book, “Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth,” in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital yesterday.
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