Anybody not talking about June 12 is not better than a dead person – Erubami

Mashood Erubami, Convener of Nigeria Voters’ Assembly, Wednesday described Bashir Tofa, the opponent of the late Abiola in the June 12, 1993, presidential election, as a “dead” politician for refusing to concede victory to Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the controversial election.

It would be recalled that Tofa, in a recent newspaper report described the June 12 remembrance as a fiction, stressing that it is a dead and forgotten matter.

However, Erubami, who led a march of human rights activists and labour leaders in Ibadan yesterday lambasted the former Presidential candidate of the now rested National Republican Convention, NRC for the statement, saying that anyone who refuses to talk about June 12 is like a dead person.

Erubami, President, Campaign for Democracy, said, “Tofa is a dead politician, though not yet buried, otherwise, how could somebody fail to recognise that anybody not talking about June 12 in the country today is not alive?

“Anybody not talking about June 12 is not better than a dead person because it was the election that translated to power shift from the military to the civilian. It was the election that manifested in the transfer of power from the North to the South.

“The election became the yardstick to measure the success or otherwise of subsequent elections in the country. It was the election that produced a pan-Nigerian mandate.” He added.

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