Fani Kayode, a former minister
for aviation, has described Babagana Kingibe as the real villain of Nigeria’s
democracy for his role in the cabinet of late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha,
who frustrated MKO Abiola’s bid to reclaim his annulled mandate of June 12,
1993.
Kingibe, who was appointed
Minister three times by Abacha’s dictatorial regime starting from 1993 and
later Secretary to Government of Federation by equally late President Shehu
Yar’Adua, had claimed that former President Olusegun Obasanjo was one of the
architects of June 12 annulment.
Reacting in a statement
yesterday, Fani-Kayode described the allegation leveled against Obasanjo by
Kingibe as a lie from the pit of hell.
He said, “I have immense respect
for Ambassador Babagana Kingibe and I congratulate and commend him for the
great honor that was bestowed upon him and Chief MKO Abiola by the Buhari
administration.
“I also commend President
Muhammadu Buhari for doing the right thing and not only making June 12th our
authentic Democracy Day but also naming the National Stadium after Abiola.
“We must not allow anyone to
indulge in historical revisionism or re-write history. Obasanjo was not a
member of General Ibrahim Babangida’s administration and neither did he have
any hand in that monstrous perfidy and conspiracy against democracy and the Nigerian
people.
“It is easy to see and discern
who the real villain and traitor is between Obasanjo and Kingibe in this
matter. One stood for democracy whilst the other joined and collaborated with
those that literally killed it.
“As a matter of fact the man that
insisted on the annulment of the June 12th election literally at gunpoint, Gen.
Sani Abacha, was the same person that set up Obasanjo in a trumped up coup plot
a few years later, jailed him and attempted to murder him with a lethal
injection whilst he was in jail.
“The same Abacha was responsible
for the murder of Gen. Shehu Musa Yar’adua when he was also falsely accused and
jailed for coup-plotting.
“It is the greatest irony of
history and fate that the same Kingibe that has made this grievous allegation
against Obasanjo and who was a protegee of both Obasanjo and Shehu Musa
Yar’adua ended up serving in a Government that was led by the same Sani Abacha
who not only insisted on the annulment of Abiola’s mandate but also jailed and
was intent on killing them both.
“However the assertion that
President Olusegun Obasanjo had any hand in the annulment of the June 12th
election is a lie from the pit of hell.”
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