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Friday, June 17, 2016

‘MKO Abiola’s portrait should be N50 currency’

A civil society group, June 12 Coalition of
Democratic Formations, J12CODEF, has
demanded that the Federal Government
approve the portrait of late Chief M.K.O Abiola,
the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993
presidential election, on the country’s N50
currency or future currencies.

The group made the demand yesterday, at a briefing in Lagos, lamenting that 23 years after the
Presidential election, the central Government
has not immortalized the late business mogul.
The group chairman, Mr. Alfred Ilenre, said; “The
Federal Government should posthumously
recognize late Chief M.K.O. Abiola as the
President Elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
based on the June 12, 1993 Presidential election
and immortalize the memory of the custodian of
the mandate and the day by declaring June 12
every year as M.K.O. Abiola day.”

Ilenre attributed the state of insecurity in the
country to lack of successive governments since
1999 to address issues pertaining to the annulled
elections.

His words, “This criminal annulment of the
election was an assault on the collective
sensibilities of millions of Nigerians who freely
gave their mandate to late Chief M.K.O. Abiola
via the ballot box.

“Thus, the failure of successive governments
since the advent of democratic rule in 1999 to
address the issue of June 12 on the side of
justice has resulted in sundry crisis bedeviling
the Nigerian state such as Boko Haram,
Indegenous People Of Biafra, IPOB/Biafra,
Corruption, militancy in the Niger Delta, Fulani
herdsmen menace, kidnappings and others,” he
added.

Mr. Nelson Ekujumi, the group Secretary, said
“The crisis bedeviling Nigeria cannot be resolved
without restructuring the country along the lines
of true federalism.

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