The Fake Democracy Day, By Tope Jaji

POLITICS DIGEST– June 12, 2020 was normal to me. “Honor their hero and they’ll join your cause.” I won’t sell out because of a cheap bribe, of soothing hands rubbing my rumbling belly. Sell your democracy day to the other conformers. Play with the resources but not with my intelligence.

The day the military officially handed over to a civilian government can not in my opinion be replaced with some political judgment of what it should have been. To have denied Abiola his mandate is not Muhammadu Buhari’s fault in the first place, or does he feel guilty and complicit by conscience.

I see the shift from May 29th to June 12 as a distraction, coersion and manipulation. It is a plain decoy hidden right in our faces. But the Older generation would come for my neck, I know.  I’ll still let the truth out. They’ll talk about “back in their days”. Well, this is my day, and politics still remains the scam it has always been.

Goodluck Jonathan, just wanted to rename an institution a few years back, I bet he wasn’t trying to name it after himself, he wanted Moshood Kashimawo Abiola as the emblem. But did they agree with him? No! Even the so called lagosians didn’t . His gesture that you rejected gave birth to a repackaged one, renaming of democracy day. How is that important to a common Nigerian or the legacy of a man that won the most credible election in Nigeria’s history.

Give Abiola his mandate. Declare him president posthumously. And this is because he won the election in 1993. He believed in reward for efforts not reward for support. It is a slap, plus a knock on his legacy.

Anyways, what do I know? I’m just a typist of my own thoughts with a high sense of consciousness. My people wake up. Until they declare Abiola president, the June 12 bribery wouldn’t sooth the truth sayers. But for those that eat under their shelter, the June 12 democracy day is a goal.

He won the election, he was not declared president and now the country celebrate the day he won instead of the day he is declared president. I’m still waiting for that gesture and that day will come. With his full benefits and emoluments given to his family like everyone of ’em past leaders of this country, having robbed us.

This was intended to draw the lost love or cleans the bad blood the Yorubas harbor since their son was denied his legitimate right. And even gave his life in pursuance of it. Abiola wasn’t looking for democracy day, he was looking for DEMOCRACY everyday.