June 12: Your report of the role of my father, Annih’s son replies Onanuga

Ose Annih, son of the deceased Tony Annih, described as a true report of his father’s involvement on June 12th given by Bayo Onanuga, special councilor of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on information and strategies.

Daily Trust had reported as a former governor of the state of Jigawa, Sule Lamido, accused President Tinubu of supporting the cancellation of the presidential elections of 12 June 1993.

Speaking in an interview on Arise TV, Lamido said that the deceased mother of Tinubu, Hajiya Mogaji organized market women from Lagos to Abuja to show support for the then head of state, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.

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He said: “I feel very entertained by the rhetoric of Tinubu, the way he is dramatizing his role in Nigerian democracy.

“Tinubu became relevant and evident after Abbacha took over the government; before then, he was in the Senate while he was the party secretary.

“It was part of those who supported the cancellation of the elections of 12 June.

“His mother Hajia Mogaji was organizing the women of the Lagos market to come to Abuja to commit support to Babangida.”

Reagando, Bayo Onanuga described Lamido’s statement as “a distortion of history and a deplorable attempt at revisionism”.

He accused Lamido and Tony Annih of having collaborated with the National Republican Convention defeated to deny his mandate to Abiola.

He said: “It is important to remind the Nigerians that Alhaji Lamido, as secretary of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) – the party whose candidate, Mko Abiola, won the elections of 12 June – was among those who did not oppose the injury of the military.

“With them eternal shame, Lamido and Anenih collaborated with the National Republican Convention defeated to deny His mandate to Abiola.”

However, Ose described Omanuga’s story about his father’s role on June 12 as false.

He said he was disappointed by the fact that so much energy was spent in telling a story of over 30 years, wondering the relevance that such should have Nigerian average. “

In the refutation that he shared on his X Hands office, Ose Anenih said: “Your report of my father’s involvement on June 12 is, to put it politely, false. It is disappointing that you have chosen to use a non -Bancist language to describe the head Tony Annih and in an official communication from the” presidency “, no less.

“I will take on the above the emotional bait that this conversation has clearly unleashed and I will speak only to the truth. I also suppose that your incorrect characterization of historical events derives from ignorance, not from malice.”

He told how his father, Tony Annih, warned Abiola that his close affairs with Abacha would destroy his chances of claiming his mandate.

“The inhabitus chapter initially flew from the country after the cancellation of the presidential elections of 12 June by General Babangida. You said that Mko in the end came back. When he did it, one of his first visits was to my father, then national president of the SDP, in Benin City.

“Faithful to the form, my father faced Abiola. He accused him, in the face, of abandoning the party and his supporters in the immediate aftermath of the cancellation while risky life and limb defending his mandate.

Ose also observed that his deceased father recognized how Tinubu spoke against the delay in the delay in the announcement of the elections of 12 June.

“Now, I am not aware of any animosity that has ever existed between my father and the president Tinubu. In fact, my father recognized that Tinubu had initially spoken against the delay in the announcement of the results of the elections of 12 June.

“It was the only time he mentioned Tinubu in his 260 -page book.

“I have no personal knowledge of the role that your principal played later, even if I find it curious to consider his first visit to Abacha, immediately after a coup to remove the ING (Mko) helped to be born, a sign of honor.

“As Lamido said, many of the main players of that chapter of our history such as Ibb, Abdulsalami, Oyegun, Ikimi, Mark, Ayu, Dele Momod and others – including Kola, the son of Mko – are still alive. We are also lucky that my father has written his version of events before he has passed.”

He added that it was a pity that had to defend his father’s name against what he described as “a lie issued in the name of the president”.

“It is however unfortunate that he had to defend my father’s name against a lie, and doubly unfortunate that that lie was issued in the name of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“I had hoped that this level of toxicity remained with the former occupant of your office.

“I am happy to send you a copy of my father’s memories book, my life and Nigerian politics, to help you avoid this type of historical misadventure in the future.”