Remembering Comrade Ola Oni (6/6/1933 – 22/12/1999) By Baba Aye
Both SWAFP and the NLP would be smashed by the military juntas (first of General Aguinyi Ironsi s for just 6 months but more so by General Yakubu Gowon s which lasted 9 years), as all partisan formations were repressed. But the tendency they had formed would continue in different forms (as well as SWAFP s till the early 90s) till the early 2000s.
by Baba Aye
Dec 23, 2020
Today makes it twenty-one years since Comrade Ola Oni passed on. He was one of the greatest leaders and teachers on the Nigerian Left, from the 60s till his death. He, along with Eskor Toyo, Baba Omojola and others split from the Socialist Workers and Farmers Party in Augsut 1964 (i.e., a year and four months after SWAFP was formed) to form the Nigeria Labour Party under the leadership of Michael Imoudu (Labour Leader #1).