...Events like the 1993 elections generally believed to have been won by Bashorun MKO Abiola, it’s annulment by General Ibrahim Babangida (a loss of a win-win opportunity for Nigeria), and the social unrest that followed across Nigeria, with the attending insight that Nigerians know what they want and that it is possible for us to act as one, to pursue a common interest. The General Sani Abacha years that followed, when any prominent or outspoken Nigerian that could or not be ‘settled’ to support the government had one of three options to consider – die (General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, Bashorun MKO Abiola), go to jail (General Olusegun Obasanjo) or run away (Dr. Kayode Fayemi), with the attendant insights that God really loves Nigeria, and that no one is beyond His Divine will and control.
It might also be helpful, to remind ourselves of the events that followed from 1999, culminating in what I still consider a ‘transitional experimentation’ with democracy with some new additions to our word count like ‘godfatherism’ made prominent with elections in Anambra state, (we are just about eleven years into that, within which time we have not heard ‘…fellow country men…’!), with the attending insights that though things are not perfect yet (and there is no perfect nation for that matter. If there were, there would have been no need for such words as ‘referenda’, or such phrases as ‘constitutional amendments’ in reference to democracy and governance), that it is possible for any Nigerian outside of the WAZOBIA group to occupy Aso Rock, and that we would get to our destination if we do know where that is.
Somehow, I believe we will get ‘there’ sha one day, certainly not 2020!...
----BIAFRA:LEST WE FORGET!
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