“JUNE 12”: President Buhari’s progressive Act vs Prof Nwabueze’s retrogressive legalism

By By Ogaga Ifowo
The symbolic revalidation by President Muhammadu Buhari of the 12 June 1993 presidential election, callously annulled by the military dictator General Ibrahim Babangida, caught many by surprise. Some might even be experiencing a nervous breakdown.  I have in mind the likes of Babangida, the annuller-in-chief, as well as General Olusegun Obasanjo, the undeserving chief beneficiary of the protracted struggle of the Nigerian people to redress that historic injustice.

For the vast majority of citizens who have borne the agony of that crime for twenty-five years, however, the news was greeted with spontaneous joy….