The Ghost of June 12
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The annulment of the June 12 presidential election had stifled a people’s dream. It would be wrong, however, to view it from the moral standpoint of what the principal actors’ roles comprise with the aim of tagging them heroes or villains. To do so would be rather simplistic and could in a sense be a subversion of the true intent of a historical treatise which should proceed without a hint of presupposition… So, the conclusions drawn in Olusegun Adeniyi’s book will certainly generate disparate views. It is the beauty of democracy – the freedom to disagree. And that is the value all Nigerians should strive to imbibe, because democracy thrives better when the public space can accommodate different shades of opinion.
Combining the techniques of a diarist, reporter and commentator, Olusegun Adeniyi reports the events as they unfolded under General Sani Abacha, he allows the actors of that drama to speak in their own words, he constructs the narrative in a chronological sequence and guides us to the climactic and sudden end of the Abacha misadventure. He provides strong entertainment in recording the statements of those willing agents of dictatorship who handed over the initiative to Abacha, but who ironically today are occupying positions of authority as democrats. The author mentions their names directly and confronts us with the fickleness of the human mind and the dangers of the personal factor in Nigerian politics… the characters in his account are either villains or charlatans, democrats or political mercenaries, men of principles or hired thugs. Without calling anyone names, he allows their deeds to place a judgment of history upon their heads.
| Author | Olusegun Adeniyi |
|---|---|
| Cover | Hardback, Paperback |
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