It is an aberration to contextualize democracy in Nigeria on what happened on 12th June, 1993 and M.K.O Abiola as symbol of democracy, except if one wants to revise the fact(s).
The tenets of democracy were subverted to foist the dictator's friends, Abiola and Tofa as candidates on the electorate.
The two political parties then, SDP and NRC had nominated Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu(NRC) and Shehu Musa Yar'Adua(SDP) as presidential candidates in keenly contested primaries, but the military head of state, General Ibrahim Babangida, for no good reason (to fair minded reasonable persons), cancelled the primaries with fiat, banned the two nominated candidates from subsequent contests and engineered(through the appointment of national executive officers of the two political parties)the emergence of two of his friends as candidates.
This is the undeniable background of June 12th, 1993, which we now celebrate as "Democracy Day" and M.K.O Abiola as "symbol of democracy".
-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)
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Chidi Anthony Opara is a Poet, Institute Of Information Management Professional Fellow, MIT Chief Data Officer Ambassador and Editorial Adviser at News Updates.
He is a recipient of International Award/Recognition For Excellence In Data And Information Management.
More about him here: https://independent.academia.edu/ChidiAnthonyOpara
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