JUNE 12: RISING FROM THE ASHES — PUBLISHED IN THE NATION — PRESIDENT’S OWN PAPER — FOUR YEARS AFTER — IS IT RENEWAL OF HOPE OR SOMETHING ELSE? — WITH BREAKING: JUNE 12 UNDER ATTACK TODAY
By Richard Olanrewaju Odusanya — People-Oriented Leadership — Servant Not Saviour Model
Reference: https://thenationonlineng.net/june-12-rising-from-the-ashes/ — My June 12: Rise From The Ashes — By Richard Odusanya — Opinion Nigeria — 2022/2023
Reference 2: Jimi Disu / Sahara Reporters — State of the Nation — Restructuring of the Mind Before the Entity 2020 — Original Sahara Reporters
In 2022-2023 I wrote in *The Nation* — Newspaper that belongs to PBAT himself — *JUNE 12: Rise From The Ashes — Akanbi olodo ide, oko Remilekun, you epitomize rise from ashes — In you MKO will rise again* — We assumed Hope ’93 was being RENEWED to Renewed Hope. We published Hope inside the house.
NB: This position was canvassed in The Nation — PBAT’s paper — Not opposition paper — Inside the house — That is why audit must be inside the house.
Almost four years down the line Sir — Same paper that celebrated rise from ashes must now ask: *Has ashes risen or have ashes deepened?* Nigerians experiencing excruciating pains all over — The big question: _IS IT TRULY A RENEWAL OF HOPE OR SOMETHING ELSE?
Hope ’93 was clear: Farewell to Poverty, Farewell to Squalor, No Nigerian goes to bed on empty stomach — MKO built Concord, Abiola Farms — Private wealth building assets — Like today *Gasoline Associates International Ltd — Ipokia Refinery — Dr Bolaji — Building refinery with Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) — No $20.52bn government foreign loan* — Build Not Share — That is Hope ’93 competence.
What do we see today Sir? Lord of the Loans! Matrix of Bulabas! — $20.52bn + €1.045bn fresh foreign loan request while contractors owed — N10.51trn health money question — N4trn + N29bn 43 years to keep 24,000 hectares Ajaokuta steel dead — No steel — ALSCON grounded — $16bn light money no accountability — N150m SUVs for political mobilization while graduates told to fry akara and kuli-kuli — As Prof Pat Utomi warned: _Politicians who believe you should be frying and selling akara as graduate are enemies of progress_
If Hope ’93 was being renewed in The Nation paper, why is pain renewed on streets? — Boniokoye Imegwu in JustCandour Part 1 from Reading England reminds us: _Government borrows in name of people, people pay — President not proprietor, NASS not owner, both trustees — Borrowing is not development — What borrowing achieves is development — Majority vote cannot settle accountability._
Senator Victor Umeh asked on Channels: _If previous loans for capital projects, why contractors still owed?_
BREAKING WITNESS — JUNE 12 UNDER ATTACK TODAY — FRIDAY OCTOBER 30, 2026 — ADO-EKITI:
As we mark June 12: Rising From The Ashes published in The Nation — PBAT’s paper — Today October 30, 2026 — 1pm — Tawakalitu Restaurant Dalimore Ado-Ekiti — Our fellow June 12 comrade *Omoyele Sowore — Founder Sahara Reporters — The platform that first gave voice to Restructuring of Mind Before Entity — June 12 person — Front runner 2027 — AAC presidential aspirant* — Was violently attacked by armed thugs inside restaurant shortly after interview at MIDAS FM 90.5 —
Initial alarm from his handles: _”Thugs just attacked us inside a restaurant in Ado Ekiti — Armed thugs kidnap Sowore — His current location is unknown!”_ — Take It Back Movement accused DSS of sharing location — Deji Adeyanju condemned as political intimidation — Amnesty International expressed concern —
Update: Ekiti Police Command PRO SP Sunday Abutu clarifies — Not kidnapping but altercation — Police responded, rescued him, minor injury, receiving attention at Police Hospital Ado-Ekiti — CP Falade Adegoroye Michael visited scene, ordered discreet investigation — Investigation ongoing.
If a June 12 man, a presidential aspirant, founder of Sahara Reporters where our own articles were first celebrated, can be attacked inside eatery after live radio interview with DSS allegedly trailing him, then question becomes sharper: *IS IT RENEWAL OF HOPE OR RENEWAL OF FEAR?* — Ballot is supposed to be stronger than bullet — Vote is prayer — But if thugs enter restaurant, June 12 has not risen — It is bleeding — MKO’s blood watered democracy — We cannot water 2027 democracy with same blood — We demand investigation — 200m umpires are watching — WITNESS 2026/2036.
5Cs Audit — Same place we celebrated — Inside The Nation:
– Conscience — Itu Egwu Chineke — To ask WHERE IS THE MONEY? Even in own newspaper — To demand justice for Sowore — Fear God
– Competence — Igba Mbo — Gasoline FDI model — Private uses FDI to build refinery, government uses foreign loan to keep steel dead — Build Not Share vs Borrow Not Build
– Character — Agwa Oma —June 12 character was unity — Miniature Map — Factor of Unity — We were never enemies — We were made enemies
– Courage — Joshua 1:7 — Only be strong and very courageous — To ask tough question inside own house — Man dies who keeps silent — Sowore kept speaking — Now attacked
– Compassion — Children as stakeholders — 50% of world 18-year-olds in sub-Sahara by 2030 — We cannot mortgage them with loans nor silence them with thugs
From Restructuring of Mind 2020 to June 12 Rising 2022 to WITNESS 2026 — If mind not restructured, entity fails — If Hope not renewed in practice, it is renewal of loans, renewal of pain, renewal of fear.
Government SERVANT not SAVIOUR — MAGIC IS NOT REAL — Ballot stronger than bullet — Vote is prayer —
Richard Olanrewaju ODUSANYA….
Convener ACRI / WITNESS 2026/2036
Author: NIGERIA NEEDS A NEW NATIONAL MODEL
Ki Olorun Tun Ilu Wa Se — Allah Ya Gyara Kasar Mu — Chineke Mezie Obodo Anyi*
