MKO AND IBB; THE TRUTH WE MAY NEVER KNOW!

Dear Nigerians, I feel the need to write because concerning the above topic, so much has taken place. We have had unrest, blood shed, standstill but in all of this the June 12 1993 presidential election remains an annulled election. The question to ask is why? I read in the paper recently where a state is demanding that the federal government Should Recognize june 12 and accord Abiola, even in death every honour and recognition befitting of a president. This is serious. Lagos state under Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu decided to go ahead and de clear June 12 as a state holiday. Some western state followed as well. It shows that june 12 is serious business. The federal government on his part decided to honour Abiola by renaming university of lagos to Moshood Abiola University of Lagos.    Instead of full acceptance, serious protest followed . The argument is that unilag is like a brand. Changing its name will look like changing the name Harvard. Another argument is that, unilag was established by an act of parliament, any change must also come by the same means. The third argument which is what concerns us here says that Abiola is a national figure. Therefore, any form of honour by the federal government must carry a national mark and not make it look like a sectional affair. Sincerely speaking, I don't agree less. It shows that the federal may have sent wisdom on holiday while thinking this. The reaction against it was too sharp. Yet the man whose name remain at the center continue to remain a topical issue whose very place is the front burner. His election was annulled by ibb. The question remains why? Sentiments aside, has ibb ever told the world the main reason why the 1993 election was annulled? Is there some thing Nigerians need to know? A created story ( at least I think so even though i was told in class in my ss2) has it that Babangida and mko happened to be very good friends. The story continued that Mko used his wealth to bring Buhari into power.( We can never be sure) However, when Buhari turned against him, he decided to use his money still to bring Babangida to power.( A fact we can't establish for sure) The agreement was that, if Babangida rulled for a while, he would hand over power to Mko under a well planned election. By so doing, Babangida would have fulfilled the promise he made to his friend Mko while in the annals of history, Babangida would have gotten the title, one time president and also be seen as the man who successfully returned Nigeria to democratic rule. At least it looked like a good plan even though the authenticity of this story cannot be established. One point to make clear is, Money and power are two things Man find difficult to let go off. That story also has it that Ibb found some things in Mko which made him distrust him. Still this cannot be confirmed. However, I must say to many that june 12 was not all about Abiola. It was more about Nigerian and the believe they had in that Mandate. To make it an Abiola affair alone is to run away from the main issue. That is why I argue that though Abiola may be dead, the questions begging for answers as far as June 12 is concerned must be attended to provided some of the key players are still living. My fellow country men and women, Mko is dead and the dead cannot speak. If we have a country where things work,, shouldn't Ibb be made to at least explain to Nigerians what really went wrong? Nigerians (his fellow country men and women) stood in the sun on that day, left their businesses, some family to ensure they go to the place they registered just to vote. Why then will one person decide to hold the whole country to ransom? When a case is opened abroad, even if it takes fifty years, the case stays open until it is concluded. Why can't the same happen here? Why can't we ask questions and demand for answers? Are some people bigger than the entire country? Will things continue this way? Shouldn't the change we want begin with getting answers to questions like this? Let me leave you to take it from here.