Former Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida
A former private assistant to the late Abiola, Lisa Olu Akerele, has blamed former navy dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, for truncating the June 12 dream, including that this may hang-out IBB by means of the remainder of his life.
He appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to offer monetary compensation to the late politician’s household for the loss and pains they suffered as a results of the June 12 saga.
Referring particularly to MKO’s crumbled enterprise empire together with the Concord Press of Nigeria, Radio Communication Nigeria Limited, Abiola Bookshops, Abiola Bakeries, Abiola Farms, Concord Airlines and Summit Oils, Akerele stated the compensation would assist the household to revive the businesses.
While commending Buhari for granting posthumous honour to Abiola, Akerele famous that those that suffered incarceration and different financial losses must be compensated to ameliorate the pains they suffered within the wake of the 1993 political disaster which adopted the annulment of the June 12 presidential election.
The veteran journalist, who was additionally incarcerated for 2 years by Abacha, recommended Asiwaju Bolaji Tinubu, for sustaining the marketing campaign for Abiola’s posthumous award.
He recalled that on March 1, 2016 he and the late Abiola first son, Kola, met with Tinubu in Lagos the place they brainstormed on the problem.
Akerele additionally decried the function performed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo “who declined to right the wrong perpetrated by an evil genius,” including that the previous President ignored persistent calls by proper pondering people within the society to appropriate the evil Babangida planted.
He praised Buhari for “coming to judgment at the nick of time,” noting that posterity would place his identify in the correct sphere of Nigeria’s historical past.
Akerele warned these he described as brokers provocateur within the National Assembly to permit democracy take agency root within the nation’s physique polity.