June 12: Pay MKO Abiola eight years entitlements, Timi Frank tells Tinubu
By Jeffrey Agbo
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has called on President Bola Tinubu to validate the results of the June 12, 1993 presidential election and posthumously declare the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Moshood Abiola, winner.
Frank, in a statement in Abuja, said the call has become necessary since former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) retired, who annulled the election has owned up to the validity of results.
During the public presentation of his book titled: ‘A Journey in Service’, Babangida blamed former military Head of State General Sani Abacha and other forces for instigating his annulment of June 12, 1993 presidential election which he admitted that Abiola won.
Frank urged Tinubu to officially declare Abiola a former President of Nigeria and equally pay all salaries and entitlement due to him for the eight years he would have served the country to his family.
He equally called on Babangida to, as a mark of penitence, remit all the money he has realised from his book launch to Abiola’s family.
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Frank said, “I don’t think Tinubu should waste any more time in officially declaring Abiola President and according him all the entitlements and recognition due him as former president.
“He can do this by sending a Bill to the National Assembly to recognise the June 12, 1993 presidential election and lawfully validate the results and declare MKO as the winner of the election.
“Good enough, Tinubu was at the forefront of the June 12 Struggle which was principally aimed at getting the General Sani Abacha’s junta to recognize Abiola as President and hand over power to him.”
The Bayelsa-born political activist who is also the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Ambassador to East Africa and the Middle East, said it was not enough for Babangida to express regret over the illegal annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election which was adjudged as the most peaceful, freest and fairest election conducted in Nigeria so far, he must apologise and beg Nigerians for forgiveness.
“IBB must apologize to Abiola’s family and Nigerians who continue to bear the negative consequences of his wicked, satanic, inhuman, anti-people and anti-God action when he single-handedly voided the election, an act which later culminated in the untimely death of Abiola in military custody.
“Until IBB atones for his sins and Tinubu officially recognizes Abiola as a former President of Nigeria, IBB will remain culpable and eternally blamable,” Frank said.
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