Dele Momodu, talks about June 12
Dele Momodu, Publisher of Ovation Magazine in an interview with PUNCH Newspaper talked about his relationship with acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 election , MKO Abiola.
Momodu also spoke of the impact June 12 has had on Nigeria.
''June 12 has been killed but I believe it has not been buried. The ghost of June 12 is what is haunting Nigeria today. Whatever happened then would be a subject for historians, I have decided that I must write the little account of what I witnessed. In politics, there are always treacherous people and they know themselves.
''There is nothing Abiola needed to do that he did not do. I think it was destiny that had a hand in it. Some may say that if he had not insisted on his mandate, he would be alive but I ask, alive to be what? What else would he have been? God already made him to be a man bigger than many presidents in the world, so the next level to go is martyrdom but we are all afraid to be martyrs. God chose to make Abiola a martyr and that means victory over your enemies. People conspired against him. He was not a perfect human being because no one is but he was very close to perfection in the sense that he loved humanity.
Momodu also spoke of the impact June 12 has had on Nigeria.
''June 12 has been killed but I believe it has not been buried. The ghost of June 12 is what is haunting Nigeria today. Whatever happened then would be a subject for historians, I have decided that I must write the little account of what I witnessed. In politics, there are always treacherous people and they know themselves.
''There is nothing Abiola needed to do that he did not do. I think it was destiny that had a hand in it. Some may say that if he had not insisted on his mandate, he would be alive but I ask, alive to be what? What else would he have been? God already made him to be a man bigger than many presidents in the world, so the next level to go is martyrdom but we are all afraid to be martyrs. God chose to make Abiola a martyr and that means victory over your enemies. People conspired against him. He was not a perfect human being because no one is but he was very close to perfection in the sense that he loved humanity.
