How June 12 strengthens democracy in Nigeria – Tinubu
http://ift.tt/2rhQf6U FILES, NIGERIA – JUNE 11: Nigerian main opposition leader and presidential candidate Moshood Abiola votes in Lagos in a 12 June 1993 file photo. The 1993 election was annulled by then military leader Gen. Ibrahim Babangida. PHOTO: FRANCOIS ROJON/AFP/Getty Images) All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Senator Bola Tinubu, says without the uncompromising resistance to military rule engendered by the annulment of the June 12, 1993, election, there would probably not have been a 4th Republic today. Tinubu said this in a message on Sunday night entitled ‘What June 12 Taught Us’, to mark the 24th anniversary of the annulled presidential election, believed to have been won by Chief Moshood Abiola. Abiola, who insisted on his mandate after the annulment by the then military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, was later arrested and died in detention on July 7, 1998, on the verge of being released. Tinubu said: “The annulment was a bitter pill to swall...