June 12 Presidential Election Is Fiction -tofa

A former presidential candidate of the
defunct National Republican Convention
(NRC), Alhaji Bashir Tofa, has said the June
12, 1993 Presidential election was fiction
and its anniversary not worth celebrating.
Tofa described those celebrating and still
talking about the annulment of the June
12 1993 election as idle minds who have
nothing better to do with their lives.
He was believed to have lost to his Social
Democratic Party (SDP) counterpart, the
late Chief Moshood Abiola, in the
controversial June 12,
1993 election
The June 12, 1993 Presidential election
was annulled by the regime of General
Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and that
date has been annually celebrated by
followers of Abiola especially from the
South West.
But Tofa argued that the yearly
celebration of the event is a fiction.
“Only those who don’t have anything to
offer to this country to move forward can
still be talking about June 12 presidential
elections,” he told journalists in Kano.
“I am not one of those people that
celebrate fiction that is the more reason
why I don’t like to be talking again on June
12 presidential election.
“If you have learnt any lesson out of it,
good; if you have not, keep quiet , let this
country makes progress. But for one to
still be talking about something that
occurred 20 years ago, is colossal waste of
time.
“We have more problems than to be
talking about this nonsense, we want this
country to survive and people were still
talking about June 12.
“People who have nothing to offer this
country or have nothing better to say, can
go on talking about June 12 , because they
have nothing else to say to help this
country move forward,“ he added.