ORGANISED labour has called on President Muhammed
Buhari, to immortalise acclaimed winner of the June 12,
1993, annulled Presidential election, Chief M.K.O Abiola, and
other victims of the struggle.
Speaking through Comrade Issa Aremu, a Deputy President of
the Joe Ajaero-led faction of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC,
in a statement, insisted that 22 years after, June 12 spectre
had repeatedly hunted Nigeria’s democratic process, saying
“It’s time we exorcised it.”
Late MKO Abiola
Comrade Aremu, who is also the General Secretary of the
National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of
Nigeria, NUTGTWN, said “President Muhammadu Buhari
should offer leadership and build a groundswell of national
consensus to posthumously accord acceptable deserved
national and global honour to the winner of the June 12th
1993 presidential election, Chief Moshood Abiola and
hundreds of other victims of that era of impunity. 22 years
after, June 12 spectre repeatedly hunts Nigeria’s democratic
process.
”It’s time we exorcised it. Given the free and fair election
that led to his emergence, President Muhammadu Buhari is
the best positioned Nigerian leader in to rightly name, shame
and damn the criminal annulment of the 1993 presidential
election results adjudged to be the most free and fair.
He added that “Labour again commends the outgoing
Independent National Electoral Commission chairman,
Professor Attahiru Jega, for standing firm in upholding the
mandate of Nigerians during the 2015 presidential elections.
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