Tinubu should honour Humphrey Nwosu as June 12 hero

CLO stated that “Nwosu seems to have conducted the freest, fairest and most credible elections in the history of this country.”

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The Anambra chapter of the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) says lessons learnt in the annulled June 12 presidential election in 1993 should be used to address the current political issues in the country, urging President Bola Tinubu to honour former National Electoral Commission chairman Humphrey Nwosu.

CLO leader Vincent Ezekwueme said applying such lessons and the spirit of the June 12 poll were the only ways to prove that the nation had learnt well from its mistakes.

The Anambra CLO chairman, who stated this while addressing journalists on Monday in Awka, was speaking on the need to address remote causes of the political problems in Nigeria.

Mr Ezekwueme said the various challenges bedevilling the country were politically motivated, and therefore, political principles needed to be applied to appease the masses.

He noted that the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the annulled June 12 presidential election, presumed to have been won by MKO Abiola of the then Social Democratic Party (SDP), should nail any related process.

“On June 12, 1993, Nigerians demonstrated unprecedented and unequalled patriotism, selflessness, love for the nation and democracy by voting massively for Chief MKO Abiola,” Mr Ezekwueme explained.

He pointed out that it “is an irrefutable truth that Nigerians voted above self, tribe, religion, ethnicity, clan cleavages and voted for the Abiola-Kingibe candidacy, in spite of the Muslim-Muslim ticket.”