BREAKING: Heaven Would Not Fall If Prof Nwosu Declared MKO Abiola President

Senator Adams Oshiomhole has knocked the former Chairman of the defunct National Electoral Commission (NEC), Professor Humphrey Nwosu, for his role in the June 12, 1993 presidential election.

The election, said to be free and fair in the annals of the nation’s history, is believed to have been won by the late businessman and industrialist, Chief Moshood Abiola, of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

32 years later, Oshiomhole, who represents Edo North in the National Assembly, faulted Nwosu for not declaring the result of the election he presided over.

He argued that heaven would not fall, stressing that worst case scenario, the military junta of General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) would have imprisoned or killed him.

“If Nwosu had declared him, heaven would not fall,” the former Edo State Governor said on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “What may happen at best is that they will detain him and how do you now detain him because he has followed the law enacted by the military?”

“We told him that having organised the election up to the presidency, why won’t you just do the next step of declaring the winner? Abiola died pursuing a mandate, he had to proclaim himself as the winner which Nwosu was going to do.

“If Abiola can have the courage, Abiola was not a militant. He wasn’t a Professor of Political Science, he was basically a businessman but he had enough courage to say ‘I won this election.’ Someone who has the background in Political Science ought to be able to do even better than that.”