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 13 Jun 2018 ABRAHAM OSHOKO is a graphic artist who brought his A Danish man was on uncommon artistry to bear in chronicling June 12 political Wednesday remanded in saga in a comic book for posterity. In this interview with custody aer pleading not OLATUON WILLAMS, he brings readers up to speed on June guilty to killing his wife and 12 in graphic details daughter at... Before we go into a discussion about the annulment of June 12, 1993 elections, what are your background, Police uncover illegal education, profession and your passions? blood bank in , Well, I began to draw from the age of four or five having recover seven pints been inspired by a bubble gum with clippings of cowboys and red Indians in gunfights I had my nursery and primary and red Indians in gunfights. I had my nursery and primary  13 Jun 2018 education in Lagos but my secondary education was in a For allegedly running an boarding school in . I proceeded to Yabatech to illegal blood bank in study fine art and later dropped out (aer my OND), Bariga, a 45-year-old man, primarily because the school and other Nigerian higher Paul Achegbulu, has been institutions weren’t oering cartooning. I later did a long arrested by the Lagos... distance learning cartooning course with the Joe Kubert Wide Range Of Accounting Software School of Cartoon and Graphics Art in the U.S. To Suit Your Business Needs

Le Tension over murder I’ve worked in dierent organisations like ZMirage (as a Sage of Enugu monarch by scenic artist), Calabash magazine (as a Lead Illustrator), mob Pandora Comics (as a production Manager), Kachifo Ltd (as a graphic designer). I’m currently working with Tick Tock  13 Jun 2018 Ltd as the Art Director.I’m very passionate about African art. Stephen Nwatu Tension I believe there are huge, untapped creative resources in yesterday enveloped African history. Amongst other things, I want to dedicate Ogbozinne Autonomous myself to chronicling African history in graphic novel Community, Nkanu West format. My latest work is a graphic novel titled Inverted Local Government Area of Pyramid, volume 1. It is based on the novel with the same over the killing name, written by Emeka Dike.I’m also currently working on of... the next volume of the June 12 graphic novel.

June 12 1993: The Annulment. Why was chronicling this U.S arrests 30 particular aspect of Nigeria’s history, popularly known as Nigerians over email ‘June 12’ so important to you? scams The June 12 election was the freest, fairest and most peaceful election in Nigerian history and, all of a sudden,  13 Jun 2018 on June 26, 1993, it was annulled with callousness and To reduce activities of impunity. Although General Ibrahim Babangida gave global email scam artists, reasons, but all the reasons were hollow. There was the United States of disconnect. Nigerians knew something else was going on America has arrested 30 even though they never knew what. All they could rely on Nigerians in a were rumours and mere hearsay. coordinated... Someone had to painstakingly chronicle what really happened for the sake of posterity and evolution of our ‘Lack of synergy democratic process. It was also necessary to kind of ‘fill in among security the gap’ for every adult who lived through that bitter agencies fuelling experience without having the full picture of why the nation violence’ was needlessly thrown into crisis.I also want to appreciate Muhtar Bakare, who challenged me to tell an unbiased,  12 Jun 2018 objective and the true story of what really happened. Director of Action aid Nigeria, Ene ObiAction Aid Why did you choose a graphic novel rather than Nigeria says the lack of conventional text-based narrative? synergy among security Several books have been written about June 12, yet most of agencies is fuelling our people still don’t know what really happened. This is insecurity... because there is a global reading apathy. However, people can’t resist a well-illustrated graphic novel. This was why I chose the graphic novel format.

Plateau to fight The amount and specificity of detail you provide is cholera, monkey pox dazzling. And yet there were so many intrigues and outbreaks secrets surrounding the annulment of the elections on  12 Jun 2018 June 12 1993. The reason behind the mystery and intrigues was that PlateauThe Plateau the June 12 victory itself created several complications for government has alerted all dierent groups of people. The ‘political’ army oicers, health agencies to monitor particularly from the core North and to an extent, the all contacts in a bid to Middle Belt, didn’t want MKO Abiola to rule even if he had check the spread of... won an election. The political leaders and traditional rulers also didn’t expect a non-northerner to command the kind of popularity and acceptance Abiola enjoyed. So, they Expert challenges tacitly approved the annulment so that power would, one military on better way or the other, remain in the North. Several politicians Do You anti-terrorism fight in from the South (all of whom were mentioned by name and North East their individual roles were revealed in my book). They also  12 Jun 2018 didn’t want Abiola to rule; they also agreed with the Know Se A Security Consultant, Dr. military on the annulment. Ona EkhomuThe President Even Bashir Tofa, the opposition National Republican Defense of the Association of Convention (NRC) presidential candidate, who was Industrial Security and defeated by Abiola and who had initially conceded defeat Safety Operations of and even sent a congratulatory message to Abiola, was put Nigeria (AISSON), Dr.... under immense pressure to challenge the Social Democratic Party (SDP) victory. Thus the annulment was not only carried out by Babangida and his cabal of inner Stakeholders task circle oicers; it was also quietly supported by the majority Kaduna peace panel of the Northern political leaders and traditional leaders. on courage, fairness, Some voices like Balarabe Musa, Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, others Shehu Sani, Bagauda Kaltho, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and  12 Jun 2018 so on also resisted the unfortunate decision, but they were Discover wha governor not in the majority. of people do Nasir El-Rufai PHOTO: What was your experience researching the book? TWITTER/GOVERNOR It was immensely challenging because I had to read over 15 know when KADUNAThe Kaduna Peace books by dierent authors and I had to si through many of Commission has been comes to s the news magazines of that era like Tell, The News, African urged to build trust and Concord and so on, just to cross reference most of the facts confidence in... defense. I had read from books and to piece them together in order to recreate the realistic timeline so that everything could be put together properly and the multiple events seen through Abiola’s kinsmen the eyes of the many key players of that era. demand June 12 as handover date As I said earlier, that day was a slap in the face of Nigeria’s  12 Jun 2018 democratic hopes. Quite possibly June 12 was the first time we had been so harshly confronted with the realities President Muhammadu of living under military rule. Do you think it changed BuhariThe people of the Nigerians in any significant way? Gbagura area in Abeokuta, I believe it changed Nigeria in every way. Yes, that period, I Ogun State, where Abiola mean 1993 till 1999… it was the first time ever that hails from, have demanded Archives Nigerians from all over the country would withstand the June 12... military in unison and through a war of attrition, with civilians insisting and Babangida was forced to Select Month permanently step aside. The resistance of Nigerians led to the collapse and overthrow of Shonekan’s Interim World News Categories Government and despite the brutality of General Sani Abacha’s regime, he himself was turned into a paranoid Select Category All eyes on OPEC as husk, voluntarily imprisoning himself in Aso Rock. Trump gripes over The phantom coups of 1995 and 1998 were not believed by prices the masses. They could smell a government-frame up miles Politics  13 Jun 2018 away. Even when Abacha suddenly died in June 1998, the President Donald Trump. whole country rejoiced. Governors, Tinubu, AFP PHOTO / Mandel NGAN Akande back President Ibrahim Babangida was known not only in Just nine days before a big Oshiomhole for APC Nigeria, but across Africa as ‘Maradona’ because of his OPEC meeting, US chairmanship seat prowess, his ‘dribbling,’ as a politician. But your portrayal President Donald Trump...  13 Jun 2018 of him in the book will take many people by surprise. You depict him as a ‘tortured soul’, a puppet of powers Adams Oshiomole • beyond him. Take us briefly on your journey to that Emokpaire withdraws from Rohingya refugees conclusion race As the national land in Myanmar as I depicted him the way he really was at that time. Although, convention of the ruling All escape boat breaks no excuse can be tenable for annulling the June 12 results, Progressives Congress up but the truth is that he was threatened… his life and that of (APC) draws nearer,...  13 Jun 2018 his family’s. In movies, we tend to cast the protagonists as This undated handout heroes and the antagonists as villains but in non-fiction picture released by state- stories, that’s not really the way things are… even the so- Agbakoba, Sowore run Myanmar News Agency called villains have a story on why they are the way they say politicians failed on June 13, 2018 shows a are. Nigerians group of Muslim women...  13 Jun 2018 I concede that his ‘dribbling’ was what led him to that point but June 12 was something he couldn’t dribble his way out Olisa Agbakoba A former of. He was caught between the IBB boys and the Lagos President of the Nigeria Bar UN votes on group, not to talk of Abiola’s total refusal to be bought or Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa condemning Israel threatened into abandoning the June 12 mandate.The IBB Agbakoba, has stated that over Gaza violence boys were led by Lt. General Joshua Nimyel Dogonyaro and pro-democracy activists  13 Jun 2018 the young and dashing Brigadier David Mark (all of whom could... Palestinian protestors take were based in ) and the Lagos group, led by General cover from tear gas during Sani Abacha and Major General Oladipo Diya. The IBB boys a demonstration along the didn’t want him to hand over to Abiola (as they couldn’t Nwosu does not border with Israel east of imagine their future under an Abiola presidency). deserve any award, Jabalia in the... says Unwanta The Lagos group were a group of oicers working at the  13 Jun 2018 Defence Headquarters. This group was led by the Defence Minister himself, General Sani Abacha, arguably the most Andrew Unwanta As those Japan warns US- powerful military oicer at the time. Abacha also couldn’t who played outstanding South Korea drills imagine a future under an Abiola presidency. He had to put roles in the June 12 1993 ‘vital’ so much pressure on Babangida (who had promised him presidential election were  13 Jun 2018 that he’d rule Nigeria aer his own reign and who also had being honoured yesterday, Japan's Defence Minister a morbid fear of him) as a way of causing a political crisis a... Itsunori Onodera speaks at that would be a perfect pretext for taking over power, even the IISS Shangri-la if as a false garb of a democratic crusader. Dialogue in Singapore June Duke debunks having The military ruled Nigeria for much of the 1980s and 90s 2, 2018. REUTERS/Edgar Obasanjo’s support to and arguably brought the country to its knees, politically SuUS military drills... run for president and economically, spawning one of the largest diaspora  13 Jun 2018 populations in the world. How does your book help us to understand the power dynamics and workings of the A presidential aspirant on South Africa lis state military complex? the platform of the Peoples of disaster over You see, the same group that carried out the bloody Democratic Party (PDP), counter-coup of July 28 1966 led by Murtala Mohammed counter-coup of July 28, 1966, led by Murtala Mohammed drought Donald Duke, has and were never prosecuted (or those that benefited  13 Jun 2018 debunked insinuations directly or indirectly from it) are the same group of people that former President... (FILES) This file photo that ruled Nigeria from the late 1960s till late 1990s. taken on January 19, 2018 They’ve equally been very busy with installing presidents shows people collecting since 1999. Even now, they are still busy with who will rule drinking water from pipes over Nigeria. Aregbesola, fed by an underground... Akeredolu, others Many foremost politicians and statesmen that we know or describe date as hear about now were military oicers who shed their beginning of true uniforms for Agbada. Some of them like Olusegun democracy Don’t be stingy with Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, Abdulsalam Abubakar,  EU reforms, minister 13 Jun 2018 , Senator David Mark, Senator warns Merkel Governor of , Jeremiah Useni, former governor , former  13 Jun 2018 Rauf Aregbesola • Ex- governor Jonah Jang and so on were all there in uniform student union leaders back German Chancellor Angela either before or during the June 12 crisis.The book helps us June 12 as democracy day • Merkel attends the German identify and understand who they are and why they do the Scholars canvass government's integration things they do, even in today’s Nigeria. autonomy... summit in the Chancellery And finally, what do you want readers to take away from in Berlin on June 13, 2018. this book? /... The truth of what happened; so that as the Federal Fayose invokes God’s Government has now made June 12 Nigeria’s Democracy judgment on Day (as it should have done long ago), parents will be able politicians planning Anger and grief as to authoritatively recount to their children what happened violence in Ekiti poll Britain marks Grenfell in that era and what’s more, perhaps purchase copies for  fire anniversary 13 Jun 2018 their family libraries so that from generation to generation,  13 Jun 2018 governor the history of Nigeria will ever be fresh in the minds of her Ayodele Fayose Governor (FILES) In this file photo proud people!. Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti taken on June 14, 2017 • Williams is founder of Borders Book Reviews, at State has invoked God’s Smoke billows from http://www.bordersliteratureonline.net/ judgment on politicians Grenfell Tower as planning violence before,... firefighters attempt to Share this: control...    3 ‘Buhari demonstrated Like this: political courage’ ‘Pyongyang-bound’  13 Jun 2018 Trump says world Loading... dodged ‘nuclear Ken Nnamani Former catastrophe’ President of Senate, Dr.  13 Jun 2018 Ken Nnamani, in this Related interview with Leo Donald Trump accepted an Sobechi, commended invitation from Kim Jong President Muhammadu Un to visit North Korea Buhari for... during their historic Buhari apologises I remember the June 12 tsunami summit, Pyongyang state to Abiola’s family 12th of June and those who media... over June 12 June 12, 2018 won’t forgive June 13, 2018 In "12th of June" Buhari President shamed In "Moshood June 11, 2018 critics of June 12, Abiola" In "Chief MKO says NADECO Trump, Kim agree on Abiola"  denuclearization, 13 Jun 2018