By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent THE PRESIDENCY has firmly dismissed claims that President Bola Tinubu supported the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election. Countering allegations by former Jigawa State Governor Alhaji Sule Lamido, the Presidency described the claims as false, revisionist, and a deliberate disto...
By Tunde Rahman AROUND THIS period in 1993, precisely on June 12, 1993, the day of that historic election, this writer operated in two different but mutually reinforcing capacities. While I was the Political Correspondent of the old Daily Times, covering the then-unfolding electoral process in Abuja, I was also an officer in the Nigerian [&he...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE ‘Those of us at The PUNCH newspapers were completely blotted out; yet we stood and fought for June 12 more than anyone else; even more than the Concord newspapers owned by MKO Abiola, the symbol of the June 12 struggle. I stand to be corrected because facts and figures back up this […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE Some broken hearts never mend/Some memories never end/Some tears will never dry/Our pains over June 12 will never die! (Adapted from Don Williams’ “Some Broken Hearts Never Mend”). ON THE day former self-styled military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) celebrated his 70th birthday, I was in Minna, the Niger State cap...
By Martins Oloja AFTER WATCHING all the shenanigans, peccadillos, frills and thrills of the strange Democracy Day June 12, 2024, last week, I had wanted to write on the inconclusive list of ‘Heroes of Democracy” President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s historians drew up and made public on May 29, 2024. I wanted to deconstruct the list, […]
