CESC FABREGAS will reject Manchester United because......

CESC FABREGAS will reject Manchester United because he wants to prove himself at Barcelona.

Cesc Fabregas wants to stay at Barcelona

The midfielder, 26, has been linked with a return to England, two years after he left Arsenal for the Nou Camp. He has been a regular in La Liga but has been left out of key Champions League matches and jeered by Barca fans.

Even though Arsenal still have first refusal on their former player, United would be sure to show interest if Fabregas became available. But he maintains he has no intention of leaving Barcelona.

“It has taken a lot for me to get where I am – and I am not thinking about throwing it all away for nothing,” he said.

“If Barcelona said that they didn’t want me, that would be another thing. But what I truly want is to triumph at Barcelona. That’s been my dream since I was a kid.

“The way in which some people always invent things is fascinating. If people boo me then I will have to cope with that.”

 

What I truly want is to triumph at Barcelona. That’s been my dream since I was a kid Cesc Fabregas

“I’m very lucky there are quite a few Spanish speakers here. It will help me settle in,” he said. Varela will provide competition for first-choice right-back Rafael.

World's Oldest Person Dies in Japan at 116

The world's oldest person, and the oldest man in recorded history, has died in western Japan at the age of 116.

 

Japanese officials say Jiroemon Kimura died Wednesday of natural causes in a hospital near Kyoto where he had been receiving treatment for pneumonia.

 

Guinness World Records says Kimura, who was born in 1897, is the world's only man to have lived to 116 years of age. It recognized him as the world's oldest living person in December, after a U.S. woman died at the age of 115.

 

Kimura, who worked at a post office and later was a farmer, is survived by seven children, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and 15 great-great-grandchildren.

 

Media reports say he attributed his longetivity to getting outside in the sunlight and eating meals until he was only 80 percent full.

With Kimura's death, 115-year-old Misao Okawa, a Japanese woman from Osaka, is now the world's oldest person.

Nigerian cook tells how he survived for three days trapped under sunken ship

Harrison Okene was in the bathroom of the Jascon 4 in the early hours when the tug begun to capsize in heavy seas, 20 miles off the Nigerian coast. But unlike his 11 colleagues, all of whom were locked in their rooms for safety against piracy and are thought to have perished, Mr Okene was able to locate an air pocket and await rescue.

 

“I prayed about a hundred times,” he said. “When I was tired, I started calling on the name of God. I was just calling on His name for divine intervention.”

 

The drama began at 5am on May 26, when the tug – owned by West African Ventures, a Nigerian subsidiary of a Dutch contractor – was caught up in heavy swell. Towing a Chevron tanker in the Escravos area, in the Gulf of Guinea, the boat found itself in trouble.

Kurt Glaubitz, Chevron spokesman, said the boat overturned while towing an oil tanker.

 

“Initial reports indicated that heavy ocean swells caused the Jascon 4 to capsize, while performing tension tow operations of the tanker,” he said

Mr Okene told The Nation: “I was dazed and everywhere was dark as I was thrown from one end of the small cubicle to another.

 

“I made my way out of the toilet, groped through the dark into a place I imagined was the officers’ rest room.

 

“From there I moved to engineers’ office. I wasn’t seeing, I was just feeling my way with my hands.”

 

As he waited, 30 metres under the sea, water began rising in the cabin. Mr Okene took two mattresses from the beds and sat on top of them, hoping to stay afloat in his small prison.

Hungry, cold and tired, he became aware of the sound of marine life swimming through the bowels of the ship. Then he heard loud noises as the fish – he thought they could be barracuda or sharks – started thrashing around, fighting over something big. He feared it was the corpses of his colleagues, and armed himself with a plank in case any animals swam into his space.

 

“At that point I was very scared,” he said. “I said: ‘So this is how I am going to die?’ What would happen to my wife? So she will become a widow? I don’t even have a child yet. What about my mother and everybody I love – so I will never see them again?”

 

Back on the mainland, Mr Okene’s family had heard about the accident – except for his wife, Akpos, who had lost her mobile phone earlier that day.

 

But his older brother did not want to break the news to their mother, so instead concocted the story that there was a family meeting in Lagos – so that he could tell her when she was surrounded by older relatives.

 

“As we were going to Lagos his elder brother kept talking on the phone, in codes and in hushed tones. I was curious but he assured me it was just business discussions,” Mrs Okene said.

 

“I did not know that he was involved in an accident at sea, and that’s why they were dragging me to Lagos.”

 

Out in the ocean, a search and rescue team had been sent to locate the remains of the men. They swiftly found ten of the 11 bodies, and were not expecting to find anything more.

 

“Then I heard a sound like anchor dropping again,” Mr Okene said. “I also heard sound of paddling and divers’ craft moving around the boat. I heard a hammering sound from afar.”

Wadding through the room, he found more tools, including a hammer. He began to strip the wall of the cabin until he got to the steel body.

 

“I started using the hammer to hit the wall to attract the divers. I heard them moving about. They were far away from where I was. I did that for some minutes and stopped. After a while, the sound died.”

 

Mr Okene thought that he would not be discovered, but the rescuers returned and the freezing cook jumped into the water, swimming through the ship to get the attention of the diver.

“I touched his head and he was shocked. He was searching and I just saw the light, so I jumped into the water. As he was shocked, he stretched out his hands.”

Mr Okene said he heard voices from the diver’s speaker shouting: “There is a survivor, he is alive.”

 

Paul McDonald, a member of the rescue crew, said: “All on board could not believe how cool he was when being rescued.

 

“The divers put a diving helmet and harness onto him. It was amazing to be part of this rescue.”

 

Mr Okene explained: “At that point I knew there was nothing I could do for myself. I just had to wait and see.”

 

Having been underwater for so long, he had to be brought up slowly and put in a decompression chamber. Arriving at the surface at 7pm on Tuesday, he thought he had only been trapped for 12 hours.

 

“When we came out, I saw the stars in the sky and I thought I must have been in the water for the whole day. I thought it was the Sunday evening.

 

“It was after I left that I was told that I had spent over two days there,” he said.

Last week West African Ventures said it had called off the search for the remaining crew member.

 

In a statement the company said: “Our divers performed an extremely difficult and dangerous task in the most testing of conditions.

 

“We are grateful for their professional service, as well as the contributions of many other personnel who gave all their efforts to this challenging recovery operation.

 
“Mr Harrison Okene has been brought to the surface safely and he continues to respond to treatment.”

Source: The Telegraph

Ogo & Emeka’s Fun and Romantic Pre-Wedding PhotoShoot

Ogo and Emeka’s pre-wedding shoot by Keith Cephus Photography. Ogo and Emeka met through a mutual friend while he was visiting the U.S.A. From the fly away with me theme to relaxing on yacht, these two prove love is truly sweet.

Bride-to-be: Ogo

Groom-to-be: Emeka

How they Met bride's story:

Emeka and I were introduced to each other by his cousin while he was visiting the United States.  We had an instant connection which blossomed into so much that even the Atlantic Ocean could not separate us from one other.  After three and a half months of daily phone calls, endless Skype sessions, and countless Whatsapp messages, he flew me into London and officially asked me to be his girlfriend.

Thanks to our faith in God, we have coordinated a long distance relationship going back and forth between Europe and the United States.  He surprised me at my birthday dinner with his presence and a proposal, so of course I said “Yes!”  Well according to the guests, I said “I Do!”  Due to the complexity of our relationship with the distance, I wanted our engagement session concept to reflect us; our trials and tribulations with having a long distance relationship that despite the odds yielded in a successful and solid union.  Hence the concept, “By air, by land, and by sea…our Love goes the distance.”  No matter where we physically are, our hearts are always with each other.

Our love has no sense of time, place, and distance.  I am grateful that Keith Cephus Photography allowed our vision to become a reality with his AMAZING work.  He was so excited when I discussed our concept with him and he contributed with his artistic talent and we are so very pleased with the end result.  Thank you so much Keith!

For more on the pre-wedding shoot, visit http://munaluchibridal.com/ogo-emeka-engaged/

Source: BellaNaija

President Jonathan Sets Up Committee To Resolve PDP Crisis

There were indications in Abuja on Tuesday that the Presidency had set up a secret committee to look into the crises rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and proffer solutions to them.

It was gathered that the idea was mooted by some close aides of President Goodluck Jonathan, who advised him to take keen interest in the crises because of his political career and the determination of opposition political parties to merge and wrest power from the PDP in 2015.

The President was said to have also been told by the aides that the gale of suspensions in the PDP was capable of derailing the party.

Those believed to be in the committee are the Chief of Staff to the President, Chief Mike Ogiadohme; the Political Adviser to the President, Ahmed Gulak; and some governors.

A Presidency source said the committee would pay specific attention to the suspension of two governors – Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) and Aliyu Wamakko(Sokoto) – and the effect of the report of the Independent National Electoral Commission, which queried the manner majority of members of the PDP National Working Committee emerged.

Before the committee was raised, the President was said to have also been told that the suspension of the governors within a spate of two weeks was an indication that the party was not healthy.

Amaechi was suspended because of his refusal to intervene in the State House of Assembly decision to suspend the executive council of Obiokpor Local Government Council of Rivers State. Wamakko, on the other hand, was suspended because of his alleged insubordination to the PDP National Chairman, Bamanga Tukur.

A governor, who spoke with one of our correspondents, said the leadership of the PDP might have been advising the President wrongly on how to enforce discipline among members.

He said the President might have realised that and that that could be the reason why he set up the committee.

The governor said, “There is no President who fights during his first tenure. Not even former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who we all knew was a ‘strong man.’

“Obasanjo did not fight even when his deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was almost snatching the PDP ticket from him. He did not fight until he got the second term ticket of the party and was also elected.

“The fear among the governors is that if the President could do this to some of us when he is still seeking our cooperation for a second term ticket, what will he do when he gets it and he is eventually elected?

“We have let the President know this and he is acting on it.”

The governor particularly frowned on the reasons adduced for the suspension of Amaechi and Wamakko, saying they were not convincing enough.

He said that the suspension of Wamakko could also send wrong signals to the governors in the North-West, adding that “we all knew what Obasanjo did to bring the zone to the PDP.”

The governor said it would be wrong to allow the zone, which has the largest number of states in the country, to be snatched by the opposition again “due to the misadventure of few people in the party.”
It will also be recalled that the INEC report on the PDP convention, which produced the national officers of the party, had become a source of worry to the Presidency.

Those whose elections were ratified by affirmation instead of election as expected by INEC were the Deputy NationalChairman, Dr. Sam Sam Jaja; National Organising Secretary, Abubakar Mustapha; National Youth Leader, Alhaji Garba Chima; Deputy National Youth Leader, Dennis Alonger; and Acting National Secretary, Solomon Onwe.

Others were Senator Umar Ibrahim (deputy national auditor); Hanatu Ulam (deputy national woman leader); Kema Chikwe (woman leader); Okechukwu Nnadozie (deputy national treasurer); Victor Kwom (national legal adviser); Olisa Metuh (national publicity secretary); and Binta Goje (deputy national publicity secretary).

Eight of these officers are members of the NWC, which sees to the running of the party on a day-to-day basis.

The President was said to have been advised by the governors that it might not be wise to allow these officers to conduct the next presidential primary of the PDP as its result could be a subject of litigation.

This problem, it was also gathered, was one of the reasons why it had been difficult for the PDP to hold its National Executive Committee meeting.

The last meeting was in July 2012, whereas the party constitution stipulates that NEC meeting must be held at least in every quarter.

When contacted, Gulak told one of our correspondents that he had yet to be informed about the workings of the newly constituted committee.

He said, “Where did you get that from? I am yet to be contacted. I do not know anything about it. If I am a member, I should be contacted.”

Meanwhile, the party has described as a basket of empty shells, the unfolding of All Progressives Congress blueprint by a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the British House of Commons in London on Tuesday.

A statement by Metuh described the agenda as grossly lacking in essentials, in fundamentals; deep in cosmetics and devoid of originality.

According to him, the blueprint is laced with half truths and outright lies and grittily divorced from the substance and incidentals that ginger national growth.
[Punch]

The last photos Fatai Rolling Dollar took before he died

  The 85 years old artiste who composed the popular song "won Kere si numba wa" has been in and out of hospital  the Ahmadiyya area of Lagos State some days back in recent days before he answered the clarion call. today.May his soul rest in peace
See  more photo Below:

 

Source:Kemi Filani

IBB Has Been Our Pillar – Abiola’s Family

Twenty years after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential elections presumably won by late business tycoon, Chief M.K.O Abiola, the Head of Abiola family, Mubashiru, yesterday, exonerated former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida from the complicity that led to the death of Abiola in government’s custody.

Rather, he said that Babangida, who annulled the election, had been a pillar of support to the Abiola family since the business mogul died in detention on July 7, 1998.
Mubashiru, M.K.O Abiola’s younger brother spoke at Abiola’s Oja-Agbo family house in Abeokuta during the 2013 June12 democracy walk organized by the Ogun State Government.

The disclosure came on a day that President Goodluck Jonathan said that ‘June 12’ had changed the history of the country for good as leading politicians, activists and groups at different events to commemorate the 20th anniversary of June 12 lamented that little or no improvement in the welfare of Nigerians had been achieved since 1993, adding that poverty among the citizenry had worsened.

Meantime, the Federal Government said, yesterday, that it was ready to immortalise Abiola and urged Nigerians to come up with suggestions on how best to honour the late politician. The government’s effort to name the University of Lagos after Abiola last year hit a brick wall with opposition from stakeholders and students of the institution.Mubashiru, who in an interview with newsmen in Abeokuta appealed to the Federal Government to pay the debt it was owing Abiola, said Babangida‘s support to the Abiola family was unparalleled after the death of their bread winner, saying, the family believed strongly that, it was not possible for the General to kill his former friend.

He said: “Babangida did anything we wanted in this family. Unless he did not know, he would come. He has been supporting this family. He always supports the family. There was a time Abiola’s daughter was wedding, Babangida was here with his wife right away from Minna, sat down with us; he left his wife to stay with us till the second day. She slept in M K O’s house till the second day.

“That is the major reason why I will always support him and I don’t believe that Babangida was the one that killed M KO, no. That is capital no. Everybody knew that Babangida was not in the government when M KO died. How could you say that somebody who was not there did something? It is not possible. Babangida does not know anything about the death of M.K.O.”
Delivering a speech on behalf of the family, Mubashiru described IBB’s regime as the best urging current governments at all levels to embrace the vision of June 12 by ensuring good governance.

“I want to state unequivocally that General Babangida’s administration remains the best ever in the nation’s history and I implore our current administrators at various levels of governance to embrace the vision of June 12, by ensuring that every Nigerian family gets food on their table and shelters on their heads, all employable youths get jobs while the nooks and crannies of the Federation enjoy basic amenities.”

Pay your debt to Abiola’s family

Appealing to the Federal Government to pay the money it owes the Abiola family, he said: “I also want to thank the President Goodluck Jonathan, for what the Federal Government ought to have done for the family, but was yet to be done. I take advantage of today’s 20th anniversary of June 12, to request President Jonathan to invite Abiola’s family to a meeting to deliberate on how the Federal Government intends to settle the long standing debts owed that political icon, business mogul and symbol of our modern day democracy.”

How June 12 changed our history – Jonathan

Speaking shortly after inaugurating the chairman and members of the re-constituted Police Service Commission, President Jonathan said June 12 was a unique day in the nation. He said although the Federal Government was yet to recognize the day as a public holiday, some state governments had done so. There have been calls from prominent Nigerians urging the Federal Government to recognize June 12 as the nation’s Democracy Day as against May 29.

Prominent Nigerians, who honoured Abiola and urged government to pursue policies that would provide basic amenities and eradicate poverty, were former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Governors Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo); former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu; Founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Dr Frederick Fasehun; former Governor of Ogun State, Aremo Segun Osoba; Convener of Save Nigeria Group (SNG), Dr Tunde Bakare; Chief Frank Kokori and Femi Falana (SAN).

Others include Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Ayo Opadokun, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, President of Nigeria Guild of Editors, Femi Adesina; Mr Abdul Oroh, Abiola’s first son, Kola; Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, Ms Ann Kio-Briggs, Jimi Agbaje, Mrs Modupe Adelaja and Hon Dino Melaye.

Nigeria worse in 2013 than 1993 – Bakare

At Democracy Audit organized by the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) at Sheraton Hotel, Lagos to mark June 12, Convener of the group, Dr Tunde Bakare, said since the historic election, Nigeria had remained impoverished and the problems Abiola promised to tackle remain unsolved.
He spoke as Information Minister, Labaran Maku, who attended the event countered that some improvement even though little had been made and said the government was ready to immortalize Abiola.

In a speech entitled: “From Hope ‘93 to 2013: How Far Has Democracy Brought Nigeria?” Bakare said though some gains like freedom of speech had been recorded, they were not enough as the problems of poverty and flawed elections among others persist.
He urged the government to immortalise Abiola by naming edifices like the National Stadium after him.

His words: “The 1993 MKO Abiola vs. Bashir Tofa election, conducted exactly 20 years ago today, is popularly termed the freest and fairest in the history of Nigeria. It was Nigeria’s first taste of a renascent democracy after so many years of military rule, coups and counter-coups. It was an election whose callous annulment shook the nation. Since then, the country has witnessed a lot of changes – for better, and for worse. However, none of those occurrences have left the country exactly the same…”

Some mileage has been recorded – Maku

Speaking at the event Maku said that government was making progress in the areas of power supply by commencing the building of 10 power plants, stopped fertilizer racketeering to boost agriculture, delivered 32 roads in 2012, saved N118 billion from ghost workers among others and urged the citizenry to support the government in its effort to develop the country.
Arguing that President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration has achieved in some areas, Maku cited Power, Agriculture, Education and Transportation as major areas, government has fared well two years after assuming office.

Asked if FG had any plan to give M.K.O a post-humous honour, Maku disclosed that government was interested in immortalizing him. He said: “History will continue to immortalize Abiola, because he died fighting the cause for true democracy, which we are all enjoying today. I can say that the fact that I’m here today, representing the government, we are still looking at better ways to immortalize him, even though, there was public outcry when President Jonathan renamed the University of Lagos after M.KO.”

Privatization of power, not good for Nigeria — Kola Abiola

Son of the late M.K.O Abiola, Kola Abiola, however, faulted FG’s stance that the privatization of Nigeria’s power sector was key to stable power supply in the country. He said: “The idea of privatizing power is not a good idea for Nigeria. If power is privatized, how can the 90 per cent and 70 per cent of Nigerians who live below $2 and $1 per day respectively, afford it? It will only be meant for the rich,” insisting that government must guarantee the citizen some basis things before privatization.

June 12 Movement seeks national dialogue

Eminent Nigerians and leaders of thought, who gathered at a special assembly hosted by the June 12 Movement in conjunction with Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) have decided to commence massive mobilization across the nation for the convocation of a national dialogue to resolve the crises in the country.

At a solemn assembly at the Ikeja, Lagos residence of Chief MKO Abiola, the leaders according to a communiqué signed by the National Coordinator, Mr. Olawale Okunniyi said they took this position in the light of subsisting emergency and insecurity in the country orchestrated by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North and youth militancy in the South.

The August gathering which include Chief Ayo Adebanjo who chaired the assembly, Chief Solomon Asemota (SAN), Speaker of Lagos State House Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji; Governor of Akwa Ibom, represented by his Commissioner for Information, Mr Aniekan Umanah; Hon Abike Dabiri Erewa, Alhaji Shettimah Yerima, Hon Adijat Oladapo Adeleye, Dr Keziah Awosika of PRONACO; Mr Lekan Abiola, son of MKO Abiola; Alhaja Aminat Irawo and Mr Mohammed Fawehinmi among others decided to further engage the government in bringing about a negotiated settlement before the end of the year.

Tinubu, Fashola, others advocate rejection of impunity Also, former Governor of Lagos state, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his predecessor, Babatunde Fashola and Professor Olarenwaju Fagbohun and some elder statesmen and human rights activists called on Nigerians to reject the culture of impunity on law and order to deepen the country’s democracy.

They spoke at the event co-organised by June 12 Coalition of Democratic Formations, held at LTV ground, Agidingbi, Ikeja, with theme: ‘Electoral system: The bane of political instability in Nigeria,’ which was chaired by former administrator of Lagos State, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (rtd).
Tinubu, who was represented by the Secretary of National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, Chief Ayo Opadokun, lamented that 14 years after the country returned to democracy, Nigeria was still crawling rather than walking.

Make June 12 a national day – Mimiko

Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to elevate June 12 to a pan Nigerian event.

He spoke at a symposium organised by the state government in Akure to mark the 20th anniversary of the annulled 1993 election, the governor said that MKO Abiola represents the totality of Nigerians to make a change and submitted that the June 12 victory was a pan Nigerian mandate.
Nigeria could disintegrate in months, Kalu warns

Erstwhile governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, warned that Nigeria could disintegrate within months well ahead of the 2015 doomsday prophesy on account of increasing disaffection in the polity.

In a lecture marking the 20th anniversary of the June 12, 1993 presidential election delivered in Lagos yesterday, Kalu nevertheless gave options for the country to survive disintegration among which were social justice and a workable electoral system.

In the lecture delivered at the behest of the Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, he called for all elections to be conducted the same day.

Regretting the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election and the possible honour it could have brought to the rulers at that time, he said: “That election could have positioned the then military president, Gen Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) as the authentic Nigerian hero, celebrated at home and abroad, but alas, the election was voided, and it threatened the fabric that held us together as a country.”

Stop lamenting, Osoba, Falana, Kokori, others tell Nigerians

Leading politicians, and eminent persons who attended a similar event organized by the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Lagos State Council, called on Nigerians to stop reducing every anniversary of the annulment of June 12 presidential election to a day of lamentation.

They also regretted that the progressive camp failed to have a political platform, noting that June 12 would always be celebrated in Nigeria.

The Guest Speaker, Kokori, who spoke on theme; ‘Post June 12: The Good and the Bad’, took a swipe at the Judiciary and other sections of the society for alleg edly betraying the struggle for a truly democratic nation.

His words: “Celebrating June 12 is celebrating a generation of Nigerians who sacrificed themselves for the democratization of Nigerians.

“In December, when I will be 70, I will release my memoir in which I have named 50 heroes of the struggle whose names must not be missing in the honours list. It is saddening to know that most Nigerians have lost consciousness of the significance of June 12; we must know that June 12 is very significant.”

Similarly, Osoba said, “I am writing a book on that period; we at NADECO made the mistake of not having a political wing like the IRA in Northern Ireland. If Tinubu had listened to our leaders who did not want us to participate in the transition programme, he would have remained in America and he would not have been a governor. We have learnt our mistake. It is not worthwhile that the civil society should continue to lament bad governance 20 years after. I want the civil society to support the emerging political platform of progressives in the country.

Falana, who drew much applause from the audience, extolled the role played by the media in those days, naming such media houses as The News, Tempo, Tell, The Guardian, Vanguard and others. He noted that a number of journalists lost their lives in the struggle while many were imprisoned and tortured.

Fasehun berates Tofa for belittling June 12

Founder and President of Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, Dr. Frederick Fasehun berated Alhaji Bashir Tofa, the presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC), who contested against Abiola in the June 12, 1993 election for attempting to rubbish and belittle the June 12 historical event.

Fasehun stated this at a press conference in Lagos in commemoration of June 12.
Last week Tofa said June12 was dead and should be forgotten.

The OPC leader stated that when someone in the calibre of Tofa, attempts to belittle that historical event, then Nigeria was in trouble. “A foreigner may ask us to forget June 12 and he will be forgiven. A child may ask us to forget June 12 and he will be forgiven. A dim-wit may ask us to forget June 12 and he will be forgiven. However, when someone in the calibre of Alhaji Bashir Tofa, Presidential Candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC), and Abiola’s opponent in the 1993 election, attempts to rubbish and belittle that historical event, then Nigeria is in trouble,” he said.