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After 20 years of democracy, the memories of June 12 1993 have refused to wane; we are at a point where we must soberly ask: what does June 12 represent? I hold the view that with the travesty that the 2019 presidential elections in Nigeria represents, we are right back to June 12. Whereas so much is being done to honor the memories of MKO Abiola with all sorts, ranging from GCFR, to a holiday on the anniversary, we may ask: does June 12 not mean free, fair, credible and transparent elections, where the outcome is acceptable to a great number or Nigerians and friends of Nigeria? If that be the case, I think the baton of the ideals have passed on from Moshood Kashimawo Abiola to Atiku Abubakar. As it was with June 12 1993, so it is with February 23 2019, for on both dates the electoral wishes of Nigerians where fraudulently and criminally abridged by those who had a duty to ensure that whatever we wish to commemorate with June 12 1993, a bigger commemoration would have been a free, fai