"If posthumous awards for M.K.O Abiola & Gani Fawehinmi were truly intended to re-connect the president to the progressive community in an election year, it has turned out a master-stroke indeed, going by the outpouring of goodwill for the general in the past week" - Louis Odion
"The man likely to be biting his finger discreetly this hour must be Goodluck Janathan. Like many things he attempted in five years, the immediate past president bungled the bid to appropriate some mileage from June 12." - Louis Odion
"Perhaps, this time, d fakir from Daura was shrewd enough to engage the right medicine man for a better charm. Only that cld explain why whereas the Fawehinmi family flung back d medal similarly offered posthumously by GEJ, Buhari’s has been accepted with both hands in gratitude"
"As the ululation continues to echo across the nation over Buhari’s proclamation, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) must be a sad man today. His melancholy must be compounded by the shame of being finally exposed as nothing but a con man." - Louis Odion
"While attempting to steal M.K.O’s popular mandate, IBB not only sold the nation a lie but also sought to cauterise national memory against remembering. Beaten to a corner, the “evil genius” then conceived the devious Interim National Government to wipe out the memory of June 12"
"How depressing it must be for Abacha wherever he is today to hear that the M.K.O he chained down for four years till he (the captor) died and who would curiously drop dead exactly a month after he did, now shares the honour of a fellow GCFR!" - Louis Odion
"By overwhelmingly endorsing a Muslim-Muslim ticket and voting above ethnic cleavages, the people could only be telling the generals the excuse of national fragility they kept retailing for hanging on to power was no longer tenable." - Louis Odion
In what must then be a fitting closure to history, it has now taken a general to uproot a lie planted by a fellow general 25 yrs ago. It's in the same spirit that we continue to yearn for a closure to the puzzle over the liquidation by parcel bomb of Dele Giwa, 32 years ago"
"Let no one downplay the therapeutic benefit of establishing the truth. For that is the first sure step to national healing. Truth may hurt initially, but it heals ultimately. This moral joint is what is missing in the argument by d likes of Chief Justice Belgore - Louis Odion
The culture of denial was sustained by OBJ, ironically d biggest beneficiary of June12, who now proceeded to indulge in perhaps d worst act of Gregorian incest by proclaiming May29 (his own inauguration) as Democracy Day, in sheer contempt of d historic day Nigerians truly voted"
The Ota-based narcissist probably saw acknowledging June 12 as a favour to MKO, forgetting that it was a historic duty to the nation actually violated. What’s more, soon after OBJ took over, the teaching of History was abrogated from our school syllabus..." - Louis Odion
How ironic that over the years, those who emerged the beneficiaries of June 12 would toil real hard to designate their own coronation day falsely as Democracy Day over the moment Nigerians actually voted democracy.” Adam's Oshiomole
"If nothing at all, with the executive proclamation of June 6, credit must be given to Buhari for somehow bringing integrity back to the national award. What further elevates the medals bestowed on M.K.O and Gani is their exclusivity." - Louis Odion
"As for Kingibe, the fact that he is decorated with a GCON award, can hardly launder his treachery and perfidy. He has benefited only from the technicality of history. But that will hardly blot the memory of his succumbing to the temptation of the stomach at the defining moment"
As revealed by M.K.O light-heartedly...“When I asked my deputy (Kingibe) what are you doing with the usurper by accepting to be a mere minister, he told me he was hungry. And I said ‘If because of thirst you decide to drink water from the gutter, you’ll only catch cholera’.”
"BTW, curiously missing among SDP top brass invited was Anenih, ironically the chairman of the winning party. It cld not have been an oversight, but an omission borne out of emotional intelligence & due regard for the sensibilities of a nation still haunted by a difficult memory"
For the education of Nigerians yet unborn or too young to understand the main issue, Anenih’s moral stamina failed him in the hour of temptation. Lacking character when it mattered most, Anenih led the colluding faction of SDP that acquiesced to IBB's inducement to trade June12
"Even while the knife that stabbed M.K.O in the back politically was still dripping blood, Anenih and co. had earnestly begun to position themselves for seats in the Interim National Government (ING)." - Louis Odion
"Anenih career of treachery continued when his old political mentor and benefactor, Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, later ended up in Abacha’s gulag in 1995 after valiantly spear-heading the lobby at the 1994 Constitutional Conference that fixed Jan 1996 as exit day for Abacha" - L. Odion
"Without hesitation or shame, jobbing Anenih again made himself available to be used to torpedo the popular motion championed by the then incarcerated Tafida Katsina, removing the last obstacle to Abacha’s self-succession circus." - L. Odion
"So, had renegades like Anenih dared to gate-crash the June 12 memorial yesterday regardless, it would have been entirely surprising if the ghost of doughty M.K.O did not haunt them around the gallery relentlessly." - L. Odion
"All said, it is a lesson in the value of standing for something. The fruit of treachery is always bitter at the end" - Louis Odion
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