Labour urges Buhari to immortalise MKO Abiola, others

ORGANISED labour has called on President Muhammed Buhari, to immortalise acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993, annulled Presidential election, Chief M.K.O Abiola, and other victims of the struggle.

Speaking through Comrade Issa Aremu, a Deputy President of the Joe Ajaero-led faction of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in a statement, insisted that 22  years after, June 12 spectre had repeatedly hunted Nigeria’s democratic process, saying “It’s time we exorcised it.”

Late MKO Abiola

Comrade Aremu, who is also the General Secretary of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, said “President Muhammadu Buhari should offer leadership and build a groundswell of national consensus to posthumously accord acceptable deserved national and global honour to the winner of the June 12th 1993 presidential election, Chief Moshood Abiola and hundreds of other victims of that era of impunity. 22 years after, June 12 spectre repeatedly hunts Nigeria’s democratic process.  

”It’s time we exorcised it. Given the free and fair election that led to his emergence, President Muhammadu Buhari is the best positioned Nigerian leader in to rightly name, shame and damn the criminal annulment of the 1993 presidential election results adjudged to be the most free and fair.

He added that “Labour again commends the outgoing Independent National Electoral Commission chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, for standing firm in upholding the mandate of Nigerians during the 2015 presidential elections.”