Ensure New Order In Reparation To Chief Abiola

Women Arise Calls On National Conference To Ensure New Order In Reparation To Chief Abiola

 

Abdul Abiola (MKO Abiola's Son), Mr. Saidi Balogun (President, The Golden Movies Ambassadors), Dame Priscilla Kuye (Fmr. NBA President), Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin (President CD & Women Arise) & Mrs. Hafsat Abiola-Costello (President, KIND) Sahara Reporters Media Sixteen years after the death of Chief MKO Abiola, a prominent civil society advocacy group has said that the only reparation Nigeria can pay MKO is to ensure that a new order emerges from the on-going National Conference to instil justice, equity and fairness in our body politic.

In a press statement on Monday, Women Arise for Change Initiative (Arise leader, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, stressed that these are the very virtues the businessman defended until his death.
Of the man popularly elected by Nigerians as president on June 12, 1993, Arise described him as the only truly elected President of Nigeria whose election was clean, free and fair and adjudged so by local and

international observers. Mr. Saidi Balogun (President, The Golden Movies Ambassadors), Mr. Abdul Abiola (MKO Abiola's Son), Dame Priscilla Kuye (Fmr. NBA President), Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin (President CD & Women Arise) & Mrs. Hafsat Abiola-Costello (President, KIND) Sahara Reporters Media
“President Abiola was eliminated after over four years of incarceration and his blunt refusal to compromise his principled belief that a mandate given by over 14 million Nigerians cannot be overturned by one gap-toothed general and few aides in crime,” the statement said.
 “President Abiola displayed uncommon courage, unparalleled dignity and unusual candour in defence of the mandate reposed in him by change seeking Nigerians who trooped out to vote for him in 1993 and engaged all the illegal regimes that held sway while the legal president was languishing in jail.”
According to Arise, “16 years after his elimination, President Abiola still stands tall than all his adversaries and his murderers. He represents what Nigeria is capable of being but which we are not because of the machinations of a greedy cabal.”
Mr. Saidi Balogun (President, The Golden Movies Ambassadors), Ms. Ayisha Abimbola (Vice President, The Golden Movies Ambassadors), Mr. Abdul Abiola (MKO Abiola's Son), Dame Priscilla Kuye (Fmr. NBA President), Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin (President CD & Women A Sahara Reporters Media It stated that all the troubles of Nigeria which Abiola’s victory was about to abolish are the very things that are threatening the corporate existence Nigeria today, adding that a country that elected Abiola with a Muslim running mate would not hear of such today as it is badly divided along regions and religions.
“We are now remembering MKO in the midst of insurgency ruins, Chibok abductions and people burying their dead in the Boko Haram harvest of blood. His memory challenges us to end terror in Nigeria.” 2nd from L-R:Mr. Saidi Balogun (President, The Golden Movies Ambassadors), Ms. Ayisha Abimbola (Vice President, The Golden Movies Ambassadors), Mr. Abdul Abiola (MKO Abiola's Son), Dame Priscilla Kuye (Fmr. NBA President), Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin (President Sahara Reporters Media