According to Leadership, the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) says the national honour, proposed to be conferred on the acclaimed
winner of June 12, 1993, Chief Moshood K Abiola, by President Muhammadu Buhari,
smacks of hypocrisy and political desperation ahead of 2019 presidential
election.
The party said that
President Buhari’s action merely sought to use the name of the person of Abiola
to gain a political capital and not out of genuine reverence and recognition
for him.
In a statement issued and
signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiya, in Abuja on
Wednesday, the party recalled that President Buhari, who was serving in the
administration of General Sani Abacha during Abiola’s travails, did not
associate with the late winner in the annulled election.
The party further stated
that history did not record president Buhari as sympathetic to the Abiola
family when agents of the same government killed his wife, Kudirat.
“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 12 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”, the party stated.
Source
Leadership
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