A former representative of Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani, has said that a former governor of the state, Nasir el-Rufai, was not a part of those involved in the struggle for the actualisation of the June 12 struggle.
The Eagle Online recalls the struggle came about as a result of the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election.
The election, annulled by the military regime of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, was won by late Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola.
Sani, who took to his social media handle, said that his revelation was to correct the impression that was created when he spoke at the Democracy Day Dinner at the State House in Abuja on June 12.
He said that rather than el-Rufai, it was the incumbent Governor of Kaduna State, Sani Uba, that was a part of the struggle.
He wrote: “I wish to make this correction erroneously published in some media houses.
“What I said at the venue of the democracy day event was that the man who stood for us during our years in prison, in the 90s, was the present Governor of Kaduna State and NOT the immediate past one.
“Governor Uba maintained the contact between us and our families and took the baton of the struggle to Northern Nigeria.
“He kept in touch with the pro democracy and progressive forces, until he was later nabbed by the DSS, released and again arrested and beaten by the Police.
“(Femi) Falana, Mike Ozekhome, Femi Aborishade, Colonel (Dangiwa) Umar, Mrs (Ayo) Obe, Mrs (Joe Okei) Odumakin, John Danfulani, Kalat Ali, Nike Kuti and (Olisa) Agbakoba can attest to this.
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“The former Kaduna Governor is unknown during the struggle.
“The history of the June 12 struggle is incomplete without mentioning the role played by Professor (Obi) Ezekwesili, Prof Jibril Ibrahim, late Arthur Nwakwo, Nkoyo Toyo, President (Omoyele) Sowore, Segun Mayegun, James Bawa Magaji, Nasir Kura, Awwal Rafsanjani, Late Ezeife, Yohanna Madaki, Gambo Sawaba, Barrister Bamidele Aturu, Solomon Lar, Dan Suleiman, Ndubuisi Kanu and Dr. Fredrick Fasehun.”
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