Chairman of Inter-Party Advisory Council IPAC in Rivers State, Chief Solsuema Osaro says, the state of emergency declared in Rivers State is an aberration under a democracy dispensation.
Chief Osaro reflecting on President Bola Tinubu’s Democracy Day speech said the winner of the election which was considered the freest and fairest in the country, Late Chief Moshood Abiola, was a rallying point for democracy in the country and questioned why Rivers State was still under emergency rule.
”Chief MKO Abiola made it possible for us to experience a true democratic meaning in Nigeria when he won a true and fairest election in the history of Nigeria Political Unfolding.” “He was the symbol of unity, a symbol of choice and hope in 1993 when Nigerians across tribes, ethnicity, religion voted for him and so that singular act motivated me.”
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While decrying the anomalies that have played out on the political scene in Nigeria since 1993, Chief Osaro said everyone who believes in democracy must rise up to change the negative narratives that characterise our democratic system and embrace the ideals propagated by late Chief Abiola.
”The individual Nigerian must rise up to this moment to say that why was it possible for Chief M.K.O Abiola to have won massively in a free and fair election. How can we get that again this period?”
”How can we go into an election and the election will be free and fair, the votes of people will count. It calls for conscientious effort, it calls for true nationalistic spirit to see that we must have what we saw in 1993.”
Chief Osaro, who is also the chairman of the Social Democratic Party SDP, in Rivers State, said for the country to move forward, deliberate efforts must be made by all Nigerians to change the narratives and stand against vices that are injurious to our democratic system.
