In a statement issued in Ibadan on Wednesday by his Special Adviser on Media, Festus Adedayo, the governor described June 12, 1993 presidential election as a watershed in the annals of the country, saying that the election laid the foundation for the current democratic experiment in Nigeria.
He said, "We regret that 21 years after the election adjudged to be the freest and fairest in the history of Nigeria, the ideals which the winner of the election, the late Chief M. K. O Abiola, stood for had yet to be realised.
"Abiola represented a symbol of democracy. He believed in the notion that ordinary Nigerian must be freed from the shackles of oppression, poverty, penury and want.
"It was his conviction that the Nigerian masses should be freed from their oppressors and that the destiny of the whole nation should not be held to ransom by a cabal. The belief propelled him to stand by his mandate and to defend it to the last.
"The democracy that we are enjoying today was made possible by the likes of Abiola, Abraham Adesanya, Anthony Enahoro, Kudirat Abiola, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Bola Tinubu, Gen. Alani Akinrinade and others too numerous to mention."
I look forward to more public holidays because you can finally have that rest…lol. I know we think alike
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