Human rights group, Women Arise has lamented that despite the supreme Price paid by Alhaja Kudirat Abiola 27 years when she was assassinated for championing the cause of revalidation of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, most of what she fought for has not been actualise.
The group in a statement issued by its president, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, as part of activities to mark the anniversary of June 4,1996, when Kudirat Abiola was assassinated, saidt the nation’s democracy was still wobbling.
She said, “This is why it pains that we are not very far away from the moment she paid the price. Yes, far in physical distance perhaps. Far in the passage of time, but not so far into the progress of democracy.”
Odumaki said Kudirat’s dedication is retained in total memory as fresh as the day. Evergreen.
“Twenty seven years ago this 4th June, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola rose to immortality. She was felled by the bullets of assassins in the uniform of state.
The maximum monster reigned supreme. His shadow cast on any who walked right in the land.
“Alhaja Kudirat Abiola walked right. She would not run. She would not flinch. She was killed for asking for justice. She was killed fighting for democracy in Nigeria. She was killed defining womanhood, dignity and humanity.’’
