Citizens and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) gathered at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos State yesterday to commemorate the death of the Ondo-born legal luminary and human rights activist. They unanimously decried the poor state of the nation, noting that nine years after Gani’s death, the country has gone from bad to worse. According […] …
Gani Fawehinmi
My father would have done more for democracy –Fawehinmi’s son
Mr Mohammed Fawehinmi, son of the late human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, on Wednesday urged Nigerians to do all possible to preserve the nation’s maturing democracy and defend the rule of law. Mohammed gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos. He was speaking with NAN on the […] …
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“I Tried Thrice To Get Jonathan To Confer GCFR On MKO” — Kola Abiola
Mr. Kola Abiola, the oldest son of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola, has disclosed he made three attempts to make former President Goodluck Jonathan bestow the Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic title on his late father. Kola who spoke during a programme titled, […]
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“Why Gani Fawehinmi Would Have Accepted Buhari’s Honour” – Son
Mohammed Fawehinmi, son of late human rights lawyer Gani Fawehinmi (who is also being honoured posthumously) has given reasons as to why his father would have accepted the honour being conferred on him by President Muhammadu Buhari. He made this reasons known at the State House Conference Centre, Presidential Villa, Abuja today. On how he […]
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I will sue Buhari if he confers national honours on MKO – Ardo
BREAKING: Buhari invites Soyinka, pro-June 12 activists to Abiola, Fawehinmi’s investiture
.all SDP governors too Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has invited the major stakeholders in the struggle for the revalidation of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election to the post-humous investiture of the election’s winner, Chief Moshood Abiola, as the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic. Late human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, […] …
Why MKO Abiola, Gani Fawenhinmi would have outrightly rejected Buhari’s GCFR, GCON – Ozekhome
Human Rights Activist and Constitutional Lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome has said that Late Chief Moshood Kachimawo Abiola, the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 elections would have rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s post-humous award of Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (GCFR) reserved for heads of State unless he was first declared by INEC as winner and pronounced as President and Commander in Chief, Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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