Release Results Of June 12, 1993 Presidential Poll, Afenifere Group Urges Buhari

At this critical moment, what Pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG should be agitating for for now is:
1) Fiscal Federalism
2) Secession Plans if Biafra leaves tomorrow
3) Resource control
4) Addressing lopsidedness in Military and civil service
5) 80 percent stake in South west water ways and land borders.
I beg to disagree with some of our Yoruba National Loyalists claiming that all is well with the South West, I must confess that all is not well, the weak ones among us are suffering too much. As the popular music says “Suffering and Smiling”. Why the so called loyalists are upright and firm in their decision that affect all and sundry but such kind gesture is never being reciprocated most especially in the Northern part of Nigeria. Obasanjo willingly handed over Power to Shagari but Babangida deliberately refused to hand over Power to Abiola. How can Nigeria be a circular state while Sharia is going on in some states in the north, these is a high level of abuse. Look at the recent killing spree in the north and south being perpetrated by the northerner and none of the killer advocate has been brought to book. I think it is high time we the Yoruba youth take our destiny in our hand because our so called Elders are after their pockets. The decision we take today will either make or Mar us in time to come as currently being experience in Kwara State.
Your logical input is highly welcome and note that this is no longer a jokes as usual, the matter at hand affect you and I and also generation yet Unborn.
Pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, on Saturday, called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to release the official result of the June 12, 1993, Presidential Election, won by Bashorun M.K.O Abiola.
In a statement to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of June 12, the ARG chairman, Olawale Oshun, said President Muhammadu Buhari, as the beneficiary of a ballot revolution that mostly mirrored that of 1993, owed Nigerians the duty of declassifying the result, particularly now that 23 years had elapsed and the Official Secret Act could no longer be binding on the document.
ARG, according to the statement, believe releasing the result would “reverse the stigma occasioned by the foolish act of canceling that election, adjudged to be the most peaceful in the history of Nigeria.”
The group said releasing the result would also open up the “hypocrisy” of military rule and help project democracy as a better form of governance.
“June 12 is no longer a struggle but now an obligation,” the statement said.
“The people have played their own part. It is now the obligation of the beneficiaries of that struggle to set the country on a truly democratic path by deliberately replacing every stamp of military rule on Nigeria’s nationhood, including the imposed governance structure and constitution, through democratic rights and tenets. There is no alternative way to deepen democracy in Nigeria.
“Let nobody be deceived. Until the federal government takes conscious steps to restructure Nigeria, the country will continue to wobble from one crisis of nationhood.”
The group further stated that continuing to ignore calls to publish the result would amount to a tacit support by elected officials for everything that transpired during the military era, a reason that, it said, military rule had transited to ‘do or die’ politics and citizens believed they had a right to take up arms against their country.
“ARG therefore called on President Buhari, as a former military ruler and now a self-confessed democrat, to see himself as best poised to help Nigeria make this transition. This can be his best legacy and the starting point, we dare say, is to release the June 12 presidential election result and its winner appropriately recognised and honoured.”

Source:- vanguardngr