June 12: Group demands IBB’s blacklisting

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The Coalition to Save Nigeria (CSN), a civil society group in Edo State, on Monday demanded that the former military head of state, General Ibrahim Babangida should be blacklisted for the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election widely believed to have been won by the late Moshood Abiola.

The demands were contained in a statement released in Benin City signed by the organisation’s national chairman and secretary, Philip Ugbodaga and Mathew Edaghese, as part of activities marking the 19th anniversary of the annulled 1993 presidential election.

The organisation urged President Goodluck Jonathan to give a posthumous recognition as President to late Chief Moshood Abiola, who was widely believed to have won the election, and also to accord him all entitlements of a former President.

The group leaders clamoured that “June 12 ought to be observed as the true and authentic Democracy Day in Nigeria, instead of May 29.”

The group applauded the president for renaming University of Lagos (UNILAG) to Moshood Abiola University but urged the president to do more to immortalise him, especially by eradicating poverty, corruption as well as insecurity that is threatening the country’s existence.

“To serve as deterrent to anyone in future who may wish to toy with the popular will of Nigerians, we recommend that General Ibrahim Babangida’s name be written in a Nigerian national black book to be kept in the National Assembly for discredited Nigerians, which should also include all those who played inglorious roles in the truncation of the popular will of Nigerians,” the group said.

The group also paid tribute to past heroes who contributed to the country’s democracy.

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