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A chairmanship aspirant of the Lagos Island East Local Development Area, Lukmon Adekunle-Alli, has added his voice to recent developments in the polity over the 12 June, 1993 annulled elections.
A chairmanship aspirant of the Lagos Island East Local Development Area, Lukmon Adekunle-Alli, has added his voice to recent developments in the polity over the 12 June, 1993 annulled elections.
Speaking to P.M.News at his Igbosere Road, Lagos campaign headquarters, the young politician said, based on the information recently released and its impact on the polity, the late Chief Abiola should be honoured. The former umpire of the National Electoral Commission, Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, had in his new book, disclosed that Bashorun Abiola won the presidential elections, adjudged the fairest and freest by international observers.
According to Adekunle-Alli, 'June 12 was a watershed in the development of the nation's democracy, but the poll was annulled by the military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd), because of certain elements in the country that did not want MKO as president and would have fomented trouble if Nwosu had concluded the announcement of the results." The annulment led to Bashorun Abiola declaring himself winner at Epetedo and which purportedly led to his arrest, incarceration and untimely death in 1996.
According to the aspirant, 'with the admission as presumed by all that he was the winner and having been validated by Prof. Nwosu, it would be right to honour him post-humously, as the President-Elect, and his family duly compensated as is done in developed countries, as in the case of Martin-Luther King( Jnr.) in the USA." Adekunle-Alli also canvassed that June 12 be declared nationwide as Democracy Day .