How We Operated As NADECO During Military Regime—Segun Osoba

<h4>How We Operated As NADECO During Military Regime&&num;8212&semi;Segun Osoba<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that after over two decades&comma; former Ogun State Governor&comma; Olusegun Osoba&comma; has offered rare insights into the activities of a pro-democracy group&comma; National Democratic Coalition&comma; NADECO&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the All Progressives Congress&comma; APC chieftain&comma; NADECO was not originally established to pursue the actualization of the annulled June 12&comma; 1993 presidential election mandate&comma; but was founded with the goal of restoring <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">democracy to Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Osoba made the remarks this week at the NADECO awards ceremony and the launch of a book on the organization’s history&comma; authored by the group’s former General Secretary Ayo Opadokun&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;30296" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-30296" style&equals;"width&colon; 153px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-30296" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;09&sol;images-2-1-e1757749737774&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"How We Operated As NADECO During Military Regime---Segun Osoba" width&equals;"153" height&equals;"196" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-30296" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Late MKO Abiola<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>He revealed that late business mogul and winner of the June 12&comma; 1993 presidential election&comma; MKO Abiola was not among the founding members of the coalition&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Osoba&comma; it was only after Abiola returned from South Africa where he had attended the inauguration of Nelson Mandela that he was introduced to the group and subsequently joined its ranks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He was asked whether he was ready to join in the fight for the restoration of democracy&comma; and it was then that he joined NADECO&period; People later turned it into a struggle solely for the restoration of June 12&comma;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em> Osoba said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Osoba&comma; who described himself as the youngest signatory of the founding NADECO document&comma; said the coalition had a national structure with 59 founding members drawn from across Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He spoke about the dangers he faced during the struggle&comma; revealing that he had been marked for assassination by a military operative identified as <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">Sergeant Rogers<&sol;a>&comma; a matter&comma; he said&comma; that was later documented in court proceedings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;22379" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-22379" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-22379" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;09&sol;Soyinka-300x180&period;jpg" alt&equals;"How We Operated As NADECO During Military Regime---Segun Osoba" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"180" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-22379" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Professor Wole Soyinka<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Osoba also paid tribute to Nobel Laureate&comma; Professor Wole Soyinka&comma; who he said regularly visited his wife during that period to conduct BBC interviews and offer moral support&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;