TWENTY YEARS ON….; 2 DECADES BACK….; LET ME START OFF THIS WRITE UP BY ASKING HOW OLD OR HOW YOUNG YOU WERE THIS DATE THAT YEAR… WERE YOU BORN YET? WERE YOU ALREADY A NIGERIAN VOTER? WERE YOU OLD ENOUGH TO BE VOTED FOR? IF THE ANSWERS TO ALL THESE QUESTIONS ARE AFFIRMATIVE, THEN YOU ARE PART OF THE WHOLE EVENT AND SCENARIO THAT HAS LED NIGERIA S A NATION AND NIGERIANS AS A PEOPLE UP THIS POINT… FOR OUR OWN ANSWERS, LET US LEAVE THAT TO YOU. THE MOST DRAMATIC, COMIC AND YET TRAGIC EVENT IN NIGERIA’S POLITY BEGAN TO UNFOLD….; FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW, LET THEM READ AND STUDY THEIR HISTORY BOOKS, ASK THEIR HISTORIANS-PEOPLE OR ASK THIR HISTORY TEACHERS…. LET US NOT RE-VISIT HE EVENTS FOR NOW; RATHER, LET US SPARE OUR THOUGHTS FOR THE HEROES AND HEROINES, ACTORS AND ACTRESSES, INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS WHO MADE THEIR MARKS DURING THE COURSE OF THE SERIES OF EVENTS (SOME ARE STILL ALIVE, SOME HAVE PASSED ON SINCE THEN, OTHER PASSED ON DURINNG THE WHOLE PROCESS) TO ALL OF THEM, WE SAY MANY THANKS AGAIN AND AGAIN; AND THAT WHICH THEY FOUGHT TO MAKE HAPPEN SHALL CONTINUALLY BLOSSOM AND BLOOM TO THE POINT THAT ALL AND SUNDRY WILL BE ABLE TO YEILD DIVIDENDS, BENEFITS, RESULTS, REWARDS AND RETURNS FROM… MANY WITNESSED AND EXPERIENCED LOSSES; MAJOR AND MINOR DURING THE PERIOD – SOME RELACEABLE; WHILE OTHERS, IRREPLACABLE…. (TO ALL THESE PEOPLE, GOD WILL AND SHALL CONTINUE TO RESTORE AND HEAL THEM.) WHATEVEVER DAY WE DECIDE TO TERM THIS DATE HAS: DEMOCRATS’ DAY, DEMOCRATIZATION DAY, UNITY DAY, UNIFICATION DAY OR SO ON….. IT IS DEFINITLY A “MARBLE DAY”, ALL WHO WERE INVOLVED HAVE BECOME “MARBLE PEOPLE”; OUR PRAYER IS THAT, ITS MEANING WILL BE ALLOWED TO IMPACT POSITIVELY UPON THE LIVES AND BEING OF NIGERIA, NIGERIANS ( ALIVE AND UN-BORN), OF THIS GENERATION AND OF GENERATIONS TO COME) LET US CONCLUDE THIS PIECE BY TRAVELING BACK TO THE " MARBLE PERIOD" ; A PERIOD THAT GAVE TELEVISION VIEWERS; MEN, WOMEN , BOYS AND GIRLS SONGS THAT BECAME ANTHEMS WHICH WILL ALL SANG... THESE ARE THE MOST FAMOUS AND MOST POPULAR "MARBLE" CAMPAIGNE MELODY POLITICIANS GAVE TO ELECTORATES AND VOTERS BACK IN THE EARLY 1990s...; FOR THOSE WHO HAD NOT ATTAIN THE AGE TO VOTE, THEY WERE JUST SING ALONG AND DANCEABLE TUNES, INTRESTING NUMBERS AND THEY GO THUS.... " ON THE MARCH AGAIN, LOOKING FOR MR.PRESIDENT M.K.O. IS OUR MAN O. NA HIN GO MAKE NIGERIA BETTER O; NA OUR MAN O... NA HIN GO GIVE US BETTER TOMORROW, NA THE MAN O; .... M.K.O., M.K.O., M.K.O., .... ACTION; .... ABIOLA.; ABIOLA.; ABIOLA.; .... PROGRESS S.D.P.; NA THE PARTY... M.K.O., BE HE MAN O..... S.D.P.- PROGRESS ( SOIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY) AND THIS IS THAT OF THE OTHER SIDE... TOFA IS THE ANSWER; TOFA..... N.R.C. - CHOICE ( NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION) WORDS ON MARBLE JUNE 12 GAVE NIGERIA A PLACE IN THE WORLD HISTORY BOOKS; IT PRODUCED THE LONGEST SERVING PRESIDENT - ELECT OF ANY COUNTRY... IT ALSO PRODUCED A PRESIDENT WHO SHOULD HAVE RESIDED IN THE PRESIDENTIAL VILLA TO SERVE HIS TERM OR EVEN AN EXTRA BUT RATHER WAS IN DETENTION TILL HIS LAST BREATH. WHO SAID SO? THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE MUST BE HEARD AND MUST BE HEARD AND MUST BE HEARD AGAIN CHIEF M.K.O. ABIOLA( IN A BID TO RECLAIM HIS MANDATE IN 1994 BEFORE HE WAS ARRESTED FOR DECLEARING HIMSELF PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:35:35 +0000
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