A peddler of malicious poetry and a rascal poet is saying that nothing spectacular happened on 12 June 1993. Spectacular, it was in the history of Jurisprudence in the world that in the early morning of June 12 (1:00AM), Justice Bassey Ikpeme of the Abuja High Court, restrained the then National Electoral Commission (NEC), headed by Professor Humphrey Nwosu from conducting the Presidential election. The restraint was based on a midnight motion brought before the court by a group called Association of Better Nigeria (ABN), led by ARTHUR NZERIBE. The rascal poet must be familiar with the spectacular name, Arthur Nzeribe. Since the midnight court restraint could not be served on NEC or Professor Nwosu, NEC conducted the election and the total results of 14 States were declared as follows : M.K.O. Abiola (SPD) received 4, 364, 993 votes while Alhaji Bashir Tofa (Republican Party) got 2,393,303. On Wednesday, June 16, 1993, an Abuja High Court presided over by the FCT'S Chief Judge, Justice Dahiru Saleh, issued an order indefinitely restraining NEC from announcing the rest of Presidential election results, following the application brought before the court by Arthur Nzeribe's ABN.
On Thursday, 17 June 1993, a Lagos High Court ordered NEC to announce the result and declare the winner within 24 hours. On the same day, an Ibadan High Court ordered the electoral body to release the result of the Presidential election not later than June 20, 1993. On the same June 17, a Jos High Court granted leave to an Abuja based lawyer to apply for an order directing the NEC to declare the result of the Presidential poll without delay. Based on multiples of disunited court orders, Humphrey Nwosu chose to announce Abiola as the winner. On Monday, 21 June 1993, Justice Dahiru Saleh voided the June 12, 1993, Presidential election on the ground that the election was illegal since it was held contrary to the midnight court order obtained by Arthur Nzeribe and his Association for Better Nigeria on June 11, 1993. Professor Humphrey Nwosu was arrested and detained without trial just as Abiola.
Only a poetic thug, would say nothing spectacular happened on June 12, 1993 or that the midnight court order was a myth. It was because of June 12, 1993, that General Ibrahim Babangida spectacularly stepped aside(resigned) as Military President of Nigeria. That is not a myth.
General Sanni Abacha soon emerged as the new military ruler. As he prepared to turn himself into a civilian President of Nigeria, Daniel Kanu, Arthur Nzeribe, Orji Uzor Kalu, Sam Mbakwe, Onyeka Onwenu and other Igbo staged a two million-man march tagged Youths Earnestly Asking for Abacha (YEAA) to be President. That was spectacularly not a myth rooted in June 12, 1993, no matter what a poetic thug may feel about M.K.O. Abiola the declared winner of June 12, 1993 Presidential election.
S. Kadiri
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