Declaring Abiola Winner of June 12 1993 Election Is Only Worthy Honour, CACOL Advises President Jonathan

Declaring Abiola Winner of June 12 1993 Election Is Only Worthy Honour, CACOL Advises President Jonathan

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) says that the only honour worthy of the Late Chief MKO Abiola is to officially declare him the winner of the June 12 1993 election, being the only free and fair election ever conducted in this country.

In a press statement in reaction to the news that the federal government had renamed the University of Lagos  “Moshood Abiola University,”  the Executive Chairman of CACOL, Comrade Debo Adeniran, said such an official declaration would harmonize with the one made in 1993 by the then chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Humphrey Nwosu.

He said it was the only suitable honour the federal government could bestow on the memory of the late hero, which would lead to Abiola receiving the honour and entitlements due past Heads of State.

"Why naming UNILAG, a university in the region where Abiola came from after him, why not the federal university in Bayelsa, why not Abuja itself?” the statement asked.  “After all Washington DC was named after one of the American past heroes. Why not the University of Abuja, because if they claim Abuja [to be] no man's land, why should the naming not be there?  Why should it be in Lagos?”

Mr. Adeniran further recalled that in the days of Olusegun Obasanjo, the National Assembly passed a resolution that the National Stadium be named after MKO Abiola but that Obasanjo rejected it.   

“Jonathan government should reawake that resolution of the National Assembly since Abiola was a pillar of sport in the country," he said.

Commending the present government for acceding to the clamouring of the people that Abiola be immortalised, he however warned it against making unpopular decisions, stressing that democracy is about consultation and consensus.