The former governor of Ogun State and Director-General of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organization (APCO), Otunba Gbenga Daniel has come out to say that it is because of the sacrifices laid down by both late Chief MKO Abiola and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in 1993 is the reason Nigerians are able to enjoy the current stable democracy that we have right now. He made the statement while delivering the keynote address at the City People Magazine’s 22nd-anniversary lecture in Lagos on Saturday, November 23, tagged: Nigeria: the bumpy road to 2019. In his words; 
“We can not talk about the June 12 election and the mandate of Late Chief MKO Abiola without talking about the role Atiku Abubakar played in achieving that mandate. It is on record that for the first time in the history of Nigeria’s democracy, a contending aspirant of northern extraction at that level and time decided to step down, not for a fellow northerner but for a southerner to actualize a collective dream of a better Nigeria. 
The overwhelming strength of that singular event produced a chain of events which brought us back to democracy in 1999. The ghost of June 12 was unyielding until it found full expression in the return to Democracy six years later. The resolve and the power of that cycle of events launched Nigeria into a prosperous and lively people cohabiting together, gradually yielding towards the near Utopia- the ideal state or nation.” 
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