A former Deputy National Chairman
of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has commended Kola Abiola,
the son of the late MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the Jun 12, 1993,
election, for exposing former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and
other “June 12 opportunists.”
George said this to PUNCH while
reacting to Kola’s allegations that after the annulment of the June 12, 1993
election, Tinubu approached the late military dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, and
begged him for a commissioner appointment in Lagos State.
According to Kola, it was after
Tinubu had lost out that he decided to join hands with the National Democratic
Coalition to fight for the actualization of the June 12 mandate.
George, who is also a former
military administrator, hailed Kola for stating the facts even as he lamented
that many opportunists were seeking to twist history.
He said, “It is true that Tinubu
went to beg for a commissioner position. He was in the Villa and Gen. Oladipo
Diya is a witness. He (Tinubu) said he wanted to be a deputy to a military
administrator and when all that didn’t work, he went into his activism.”
The PDP chieftain hailed Kola for
deciding to make a documentary of the June 12 saga.
George said Kola must not be
victimized for saying the truth since, as the first son of MKO, he was an
insider.
He said, “Most of what Kola said
is true. He spoke from the heart and he was trying to set the records straight
in the face of the many narratives. He had been looking for who would help to
recognize the June 12 saga so that his father wouldn’t have died in vain.
“In the course of this, he had
bottled up so much. He went through a lot, having lost his mother and family
businesses during the struggle. So, he was setting the records straight so that
people would not rewrite history.”
The PDP chieftain, however, said
Nigeria had yet to learn from the June 12 saga.
George said, “Now, June 12 has
been adopted as a national holiday but have we learnt any serious lesson from
it? Have we done anything to ensure that the mistakes of the past are not
repeated? “Yes, people are pontificating and trying to use it as a political
tool but believe we have not learnt anything.”
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