By Matthew Atungwu The lawmaker representing Abia North Senatorial District, Orji Uzor Kalu, has challenged former military presiden...
By Matthew Atungwu
The lawmaker representing Abia North Senatorial District,
Orji Uzor Kalu, has challenged former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, to
name those responsible for the annulment of the June 12, 1993, election.
Kalu made the call while fielding questions from newsmen on
Tuesday in Abuja.
Recall that in a memoir he launched last week, Babangida
admitted that late MKO Abiola won the election conducted 32 years ago.
Responding, Kalu urged him to publish a second volume of the
memoir that would address unanswered questions surrounding the annulment of the
June 12 election.
“I look forward to the second edition of Babangida’s book
because the first did not reveal all the realities. I was present during the
events of June 12, and I know what happened. Babangida should call out the
names of those responsible for preventing the election declaration,” Kalu said.
The former Abia state governor also called on President Bola
Tinubu to officially recognize the late Abiola as one of Nigeria’s past presidents,
stressing that Abiola’s portrait be placed alongside those of other former
leaders in the Presidential Villa.
He lauded the actions of former President Muhammadu Buhari
for conferring a posthumous national honor on Abiola but stressed that further
recognition was necessary.
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