{"id":328872,"date":"2024-06-28T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=328872"},"modified":"2024-06-28T07:30:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T06:30:13","slug":"letting-politicians-take-over-from-military-in-1999-fundamental-mistake-shehu-sani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/06\/28\/letting-politicians-take-over-from-military-in-1999-fundamental-mistake-shehu-sani\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting politicians take over from military in 1999 &#8216;fundamental mistake&#8217; \u2013 Shehu Sani"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>He said those who were at the forefront of the fight to end military rule should have taken over power from the military like the ANC did in South Africa<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Former Kaduna state Senator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/06\/28\/ozekhome-defend-election-riggers-shehu-sani-didnt-do-well-as-senator-wike\/\">Shehu Sani<\/a>, says the refusal of activists, who fought for the return to democratic rule, to take up the mantle of leadership from the military in 1999 was a fundamental mistake.<\/p>\n<p>He said those who were at the forefront of the fight to end military rule in Nigeria in 90s should have taken over power from the military like the ANC did in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The witty socio-political commentator spoke in a panel discussion at an event organised to mark Nigeria\u2019s 25 years of democratic rule in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sani recalled how he and other democracy fighters were imprisoned for some years before the death of former military leader Sani Abacha which led to the release of many of them.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, who took over from Abacha, called them to hand over power to them but they declined to cooperate with the military, an action which he now feels was a fundamental error.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that by the time they realised their mistake and made efforts to try to get into public office, it was too late because the politicians have taken over and asserted their dominance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbdulsalami Abubakar invited all of us who fought for democracy; that I am going to hand over power to a democratic government and I want all of you the freedom fighters to come together and take over power. At that very time, Gani opposed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree times he was inviting us we even refused to answer his call. He invited the politicians, he didn\u2019t even invite them; they were knocking at his door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter we decided to listen to him, we came and sat down; what do we do? That is what the ANC in South Africa did, after the struggle, they took over political power, but after our struggle in 1998 and 1999, we made a fundamental mistake and said, we are not going to cooperate with the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike Ozekhome is sitting here, he is one of those who opposed that we should not join. Gani opposed Falana, and Olisa Agbakoba all opposed. It was Tinubu who said if we don\u2019t get in, who is going to be there?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen by the time we all agreed to join the politics, politicians had taken over all posts. Mike Ozekhome tried to be governor of Edo State, he couldn\u2019t, Olisa tried to be president he couldn\u2019t, Gani tried to be president he couldn\u2019t, Falana tried to be governor of his state he couldn\u2019t, I tried to be governor of Kaduna State I couldn\u2019t because the space were all taken over,\u201d Sani said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said those who were at the forefront of the fight to end military rule should have taken over power from the military like the ANC did in South Africa Former Kaduna state Senator, Shehu Sani, says the refusal of activists, who fought for the return to democratic rule, to take up the mantle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":268845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"0","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":{"override_bookmark_button":"0","override_show_bookmark_button":"0"},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5074,300,503,2607],"class_list":["post-328872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-activist","tag-democracy","tag-kaduna","tag-shehu-sani"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Letting politicians take over from military in 1999 &#039;fundamental mistake&#039; 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