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Omo Oba
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: The Guardian Online - http://www.ngrguardiannews.com
: Sunday, June 11 , 2000
: Exposed: Men Who Signed Away June 12
:
: From
:
: Martins Oloja, Abuja Bureau Chief
:
: AS Nigerians mark the June 12 political landmark tomorrow, The Guardian On
: Sunday has obtained the true identity of the persons who signed away the
: June 12, 1993 presidential election victory.
:
: It would be recalled that as the annulment snowballed into a crisis, a
: tripartite committee comprising members of the then military regime and
the
: two political parties, the SDP and the NRC, compromised and agreed to form
: an Interim National Government (ING), later led by Chief Ernest Shonekan.
:
: The first signatory was Admiral Augustus Aikhomu, then followed by
Shonekan.
: Next was Alhaji Abdulrahman Okene who later became the chairman of
: Devolution of Powers Committee under the Abacha regime. He had been
Internal
: Affairs Minister under the ING government.
:
: The others are Lt. Gen. Joshua Dongoyaro who was then Commandant, Command
: and Staff College, Jaji. Dongoyaro was later removed as Chief of Defence
: Staff by Gen. Abacha and Gen. Oladipo Diya was put in his place.
:
: Other members of the committee who signed the document and are now in
: Obasanjo's government include:
:
:
: Alhaji Sule Lamido who signed as (No. 26). He was chairman, NACB under the
: ING. He is Foreign Affairs Minister. He had served as member of the
National
: Constitutional Conference.
:
: Chief Tony Anenih - he was Chairman of SDP. He is presently Works and
: Housing Minister.
: Dr. Patrick Dele Cole signed the document as SDP No 24. He is Obasanjo's
: Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs.
:
:
: Chief Dapo Sarumi who signed as (SDP No 32) served ING as Communications
: Minister. He is Minister of Co-operation and Integration in Africa. Had
: earlier served as Information Minister.
: Alhaji Adamu Ciroma signed the document as NRC No 13. He served the Abacha
: regime as Agriculture Minister. He is Nigeria's Finance Minister.
:
:
: Lt. Gen. Aliyu Mohammed was then the National Security Adviser (NSA). He
: signed the document as government representative. He is Obasanjo's NSA.
: Brig. Gen. Anthony Ukpo signed the document too as PMT, NDA, Kaduna for
: government. He is serving in one of the several panels in Abuja.
:
: The members of the today's National Assembly who signed the document are:
: Chief Jim Nwobodo for SDP. He had served the Abacha regime as Minister for
: Sports. He is presently a Senator. The other senator who also signed the
: Third Republic away is Brig. Gen. David A.B. Mark who was then in National
: War College. He had earlier served Babangida as Governor of Niger State
and
: Communications Minister. He is the chairman of the communications
committee
: of the Senate
:
: According to the document, the late Yar'Adua signed the document (as SDP
No
: 34). He was a member of the 94/95 Constitutional Conference. He died in
: Abakaliki prison after being implicated in a phantom coup plot by the
Abacha
: regime. He was a presidential aspirant.
:
: The document shows that two other members have died. They are Abdurahman
: Okene and Mr. Amos Idakula was signed as (SDP No 25). He was SDP's
publicity
: secretary. He died in 1997.
:
: Other members of the political class who signed away June 12 include
Alhaji
: Abubakar Rimi who had served Abacha as Communications Minister. He signed
: (as SDP No. 30). Alhaji Olusola Saraki was a signatory too (on the SDP
: platform as No 31). He was chairman of Business Committee of the
: Constitutional Conference. He is a frontline member of the APP.
:
: The tenth signatory on the G-34 platform was Dr. Hamed Kusamotu (who
signed
: on NRC platform as No 10). He was NRC chairman then.
:
: Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu, who served as Internal Affairs Minister and Power
and
: Steel under Abacha signed the document (on NRC platform as No 14). Chief
Tom
: Ikimi signed the document (on NRC platform No 15). He was later to be
: Abacha's adviser on Political Affairs. He later served as Foreign Affairs
: Minister. Chief Joseph Toba signed as SDP No. 33.
:
: The only NRC member who signed "with reservations" was Mr. Joe Nwodo. Mr.
: Okey Nzoho, NRC's Publicity Secretary then signed on platform NRC No 21.
Dr.
: Bawa Salka also signed for the NRC on platform 22. The other military
: officer who signed for the military regime was Brig. Gen. John Shagaya. He
: had been Minister of Internal Affairs, among others. He signed as GOC, One
: Infantry Division, Kaduna.
:
: Mr. Theo Nikire also signed. Just as Prof. Eyo Ita signed the G-34
document
: on platform NRC 16.
:
: Others are: Prince Bola Afonja (NRC 11); Alhaji Y. Anka (NRC 12); Mr. Abba
: Muritala Mohammed signed as NRC No 18; and Alhaji Muktari A. Mohammed NRC
: 17th.
:
: Alhaji A. Ramalan, now a traditional ruler in Nasarawa State, also signed
: the document. Alhaji Halilu A. Maina, SDP No. 27, was there. Just as Dr.
: Okechukwu Odunze signed as SDP No 29. He was then SDP's National
Treasurer.
:
: According to the document, the original G-34 had then reckoned that after
: signing the pact, ING would commence on August 27, 1993 and terminate on
: December 31, 1994. But Gen. Abacha capitalised on the provisions of
Chapter
: five (V) subsection 48 of the ING Decree 61 which states: "The most senior
: minister shall hold the office of Head of the Interim National Government
if
: the office of the Head of Interim National Government becomes vacant by
: reason of death or resignation." Gen. Abacha struck on November 17, 1993.
: President Ibrahim Babangida was forced to "step aside." Nine of the
original
: G-34 are currently in Obasanjo's government as ministers, special
assistants
: and ad-hoc panel members.
:
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