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Former Director-General of the defunct Centre for Democratic Studies, Prof. Omo Omoruyi, on Wednesday asked President Goodluck Jonathan to set up a committee of political scientists to restructure the political system ahead of the June 12 anniversary.
Omoruyi, who spoke with journalists in Benin, Edo State capital, urged Jonathan to put in place a committee of stakeholders with a view to "fundamentally restructure the political order in the country."
Speaking shortly after a thanksgiving service to celebrate his 73rd birthday, the professor of political science said it was only through such a committee that the issue of June 12, 1993 annulled presidential election could be discussed and "buried for life."
The June 12, 1993 election, conducted under the military regime of Ibrahim Gen. Babangida (retd), and acclaimed as the freest ever held in Nigeria, was won by late business mogul, Bashorun Moshood Abiola, but was annulled by the ruling junta.
Omoruyi said, "The annulment of June 12, 1993 election still remains a very sore point for some of us. I still believe that those who contributed to that annulment today... get them out and shoot them. When I see some of them talking on the television, I feel like breaking the television myself. Nigerians should spend that day reflecting. People must find out why democracy eluded us on June 12, 1993.
"Jonathan needs to put together a committee of political scientists to fundamentally restructure the political order. This political order must be restructured. That still remains an unresolved issue.
"Why should somebody say it is the turn of this people or these people? It is sad because one of the things June 12 solved was that two people were voted in and nobody cared about where they came from. All these things you are reading about zoning are part of the hangover of the annulment."
Source: The Punch