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Peter Obi And NADECO/ Democracy Day.

I just read a piece by Peter Obi talking about June 12 as the fulfilment of our collective Democratic goal. I could not just believe that Peter Obi...... 1.  In 1993, at the tail end of the unending IBB series of Transition Programs, the government set up two government parties -SDP and NRC. MKO Abiola emerged as the Presidential Candidate of SDP while Ibrahim Toffa was the NRC candidate.  IBB was a student of Egyptian ex-President Gamal Nasser and molded his trajectory to leadership after him. Nasser was a military general who planed a coup but handed over power to a senior General Mohamed Naguib to take all the international bashings that new heads of military juntas get. He stayed behind and did all possible to make the government unpopular. He then over threw his boss at the height of his unpopularity and received massive acceptance for his act.  Now the head of state, Nasser transited into civilian president.  IBB had done same thing. He and his boys overthrew Shagari but gave pow