Tinubu’s Presidency Will Fix The June 12 Anomaly, Keyamo

The election of Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, in 2023, according to Minister of State for Labour and Productivity Festus Keyamo, will remedy “the June 12, 1993 electoral anomaly.”

The late benefactor Chief M.K.O. Abiola won the presidential vote on June 12, 1993. The military junta commanded by Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (ret.) nevertheless, invalidated the election for petty grounds.

Going back in time on Thursday, Keyamo claimed that only the former governor of Lagos State was leading the fight for the June 12 mandate among those currently aspiring to succeed the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd).

The minister alleged that the former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, was among those who first abandoned the June 12 struggle.
He also alleged that Atiku’s principal, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who became Nigeria’s president in 1999, betrayed the June 12 cause.

According to him, the election of Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2023, a true hero of June 12, will largely address this anomaly of 1999.

He wrote, “No Presidential candidate today had ANYTHING to do with the June 12 struggle (which is the foundation of democracy we are enjoying today) except BAT and (to be honest) Sowore as a student leader, but BAT was more pivotal from exile. Atiku was one of the first to abandon June 12

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“After the June 12 struggle, ‘strangers’ emerged from nowhere and hijacked the democratic train at the center; OBJ who opposed June 12 became the greatest beneficiary of the struggle. The election of BAT in 2023, a true hero of June 12, will largely address this anomaly of 1999

“Some feel the Yorubas weren’t compensated by the election of OBJ in 1999; he wasn’t the choice of the Yorubas because he betrayed the cause of June 12, hence they rejected him at the polls in 1999. The election of BAT in 2023, a June 12 hero, will largely assuage that feeling

“I can speak on these because, apart from defending NADECO leaders in court with my late boss Gani Fawehinmi, on Oct. 1, 1994, we launched the National Conscience movement to fight for June 12, and on June 11, 1995, I along with other comrades were arrested by the DSS and detained

“When I left Gani Fawehinmi late in 1995, I started a youth movement to prevent the self-succession bid of Abacha and to oppose Kanu who was promoting that bid. We were collecting signatures on the streets to petition the UN when we were picked up by the military junta and detained.”

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