Some broken hearts never mend Some memories never end Some tears will never dry Our pains over 12 June will never die! Adapted from Don Williams’ Some Broken Hearts Never Mend On the day former self-styled military President Ibrahim Babangida celebrated his 70th birthday, I was in Minna, the Niger State capital where the self-styled ‘evil genius’ has his palatial …

The Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has highlighted free and fair elections as the best way to honour the memory of the acclaimed winner of the 12 June presidential election, Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, and other democratic heroes. Describing free and fair elections as the lifeline of any virile democracy, Adeleke acknowledged the sacrifices and struggles that paved …

One of the captivating political campaign lines of Moshood Abiola has been immortalised in a seminal work by Prof. Tunde Ope-Davies (Tunde Opeibi) of the University of Lagos. Titled, Discourse, Politics and the 1993 Presidential Election Campaign in Nigeria, the book documents the drive of the gladiators to secure the mandate of the electorate. Ope-Davies’ uncanny nose for hidden details …

President Bola Tinubu has honoured the winner of the annulled 12th June 1993 presidential election, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola, 25 years after his demise. Of the over 14 million votes cast in the election, Abiola was said to have won almost 60 per cent, making him the winner of the election. Compared to previous elections marred by fraud, …

My 12th June was hectic as usual; it started very early in the day as I led my parishioners to pray against destiny destroyers. There are many intriguing cases of destinies that were, well, inexplicably destroyed in the Bible; a few examples were Abel, whose offering God accepted but who, as a result, got killed by his brother Cain whose …

The pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has stated that the 2023 Democracy Day is very significant because one of the leading lights of the 12th June struggle, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu is now the President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, the organisation said that …

The immediate trigger for this intervention is the recent  announcement of  public holiday declared by the Federal Government for Monday 12th June 2023. It’s in commemoration of Nigeria’s freest election won in 1993 by the inimitable philanthropist and pan-Africanist turned politician, Bashorun Moshood Abiola. The campaign slogan for Abiola’s campaign was Hope ’93.  Interestingly, when campaigns commenced for party primaries …

Last week some politically exposed persons who pretend to be neutral analysts expressed excitement over former military president Ibrahim Babangida’s role in the annulement of the 12th June 1993 presidential election. It was a shocker seeing a sudden veneration of IBB as per that ill-fated transition programme. A programme that even the most optimistic would not waste time to stuff …

Last week as I re-arranged books and old newspapers in my library, I stumbled on a piece of historical evidence that I consider germane to the ongoing discussion on the direction towards 2023. The find was fortuitous because I did not set out to look for it. In fact, I never knew it existed or was there. It was the …