JUNE 12 REMEMBRANCE!!!!

Twenty years after the
happy June 12 election
and its dismal
termination, sufficient
lessons should have
been learned. I know
that the conspirators
now must have their
regrets. But there is yet
hope for redemption.
The only way for
redemption is for them
to embrace a new
thinking that will reflect
the will of the people.
They must now join
hands with the
progressives to propel a
people-oriented
government to office.
Then the dream of June
12 would have been
fulfilled.
Because those in power
look the wrong,
undemocratic way, they
have learned the wrong,
undemocratic lessons.
They have learned not
to give the people the
chance to truly express
their political will. The
current system does
not foster the public’s
will. The system
squeezes it.
The system is so
corrosive that even an
election among 35
governors for the
chairmanship of the
governors’ forum
becomes an exercise in
blatant mischief where
the loser is tagged the
winner because he is a
well-paid courier
delivering to those in
Aso Rock as they wish.
In the end, there is no
end. That is the
essential lesson of June
12. A nation never
keeps democracy
except it continually
fights for it. To slumber
is to lose. We remember
June 12 so that one day
Nigerians from all walks
of life and all parts of
the nation can describe
an election as, “It was
the best of times,’’ and
mean it as the full and
complete truth. This is
the Nigeria we seek. For
today and for
tomorrow.