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2023: Tinubu's Emergence Will Correct June 12 Anomaly- Keyamo

AFNews Reporter

Jul 07, 2022

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"After the June 12 struggle, 'strangers' emerged from nowhere and hijacked the democratic train at the center; OBJ who opposed June 12 became the greatest beneficiary of the struggle. The election of BAT in 2023, a true hero of June 12, will largely address this anomaly of 1999

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"Some feel the Yorubas weren't compensated by the election of OBJ in 1999; he wasn't the choice of the Yorubas because he betrayed the cause of June 12, hence they rejected him at the polls in 1999. The election of BAT in 2023, a June 12 hero, will largely assuage that feeling

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"I can speak on these because, apart from defending NADECO leaders in court with my late boss Gani Fawehinmi, on Oct. 1, 1994, we launched the National Conscience movement to fight for June 12, and on June 11, 1995, I along with other comrades were arrested by the DSS and detained.

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— AFNews Reporter

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