Thursday 13 June 2013

Aregbesola, others call for restructuring of political system



Aregbesola, others call for restructuring of political system
Former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Walter Carrington, and many eminent human rights activists yesterday participated in the 20th anniversary of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election.
The election was believed to have been won by Chief Moshood Abiola.
Many of the activists include Shehu Sani, Prof. Ropo Sekoni, Rotimi Obadofin, Amitolu Shittu, Waheed Lawal, Rahman Shenge. The Democracy Day rally and lectures were organised by the Osun State government.
The Freedom Square, Old Garage, Osogbo, Osun State capital, venue of the event, was filed to capacity by students, market women and human rights activists..
Representing the Abiola family was the son Abdulmumini.
Carrington said Nigeria had the credentials and potentials to be a big player in the world political space but wished away the opportunity with the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election.
Governor Rauf Aregbesola, led his executive council team to the anniversary event titled “June 12 and The National Question.”
Aregbesola pointed out that the annulment revealed in a most brazen manner the problem of unjust political domination and the need, to restructure our political system and redefine the basis of our national existence.
According to him, “This is a central concern of what is generally described as the national question. It is also the basis of the widespread call for convening a sovereign national conference to renegotiate the basis of our nationhood.
“The national question remains unaddressed and we are still grappling with the drawbacks. Yet the national ruling power establishment continues to live in denial of this reality, and pretending as though the problems are not there, or nursing the futile hope that the problems will simply disappear, of their accord.”
Aregbesola added that the problems are not meant to disappear; they are meant to be addressed, noting that for as long as the country refuses to summon the courage to face the problems; Nigeria will continue to struggle with the consequences.
The governor held that June 12 anniversary is not about Chief Abiola as a person or as a Yoruba man, but about a true Nigerian who loved Nigerians without qualification or discrimination.
He noted that on June 12, Chief Abiola achieved what no other politician had ever achieved in the country, which is the unity of Nigerians.

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