The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the national honour
proposed to be conferred on the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993,
Chief MKO Abiola, by President Muhammadu Buhari, smacks of hypocrisy and
political desperation ahead of 2019 presidential election.
PDP declares that President Buhari's action merely sought
to use the name and person of Chief Abiola to gain a political capital
and not out of genuine reverence and recognition for him.
The party recalls that President Buhari, who was serving in
the military administration of General Sani Abacha during the travails
of Chief MKO Abiola, did not associate either by words or actions with
the late winner of June 12 election.
The party further stated that history did not record
President Buhari as sympathetic to the Abiola's family when his wife,
Kudirat, was gruesomely murdered by the agents of a government which
President Buhari served.
It is therefore a sign of political desperation for
President Buhari to seek to use Chief Abiola's name as a tool to sway
Nigerians in less than twelve months to an election where he, (President
Buhari) is seeking a second term.
It is also shocking that the respectable grave of Abiola
can be dishonoured by granting a posthumous award on him along with
someone who denounced the June 12 mandate and preferred the company of
his (Abiola's) traducers.
Even those who now masquerade as change agents were opposed to the naming of University of Lagos after Chief Abiola.
If President Buhari genuinely wants to honour Chief
Abiola, he should do so by ending all anti-democratic proclivities of
his administration and allow for the rule of law and respect for our
constitution.
The PDP therefore urges President Buhari to shed his
desperate actions in his quest to win the 2019 presidential election as
Nigerians can no longer be deceived by such antics.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
National Publicity Secretary
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