The Peoples Democratic Party has called the declaration by President Buhari on June 12 as the new democracy day in Nigeria as a sign of desperation from the President. The Party insists the declaration is targeted at the 2019 Presidential elections and nothing more.
The party in a press statement released online, also called the President a hypocrite saying there was never a time in the history of the country where President Buhari has shown any sympathy towards the families of late Chief MKO Abiola. They questioned the motive behind the President’s declaration.
The major opposition party called the move a move for second term bid from a failed government. The statement reads:
The national honour proposed to be conferred on the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993, Chief MKO Abiola, by the failed President Muhammadu, smacks of hypocrisy and political desperation ahead of 2019 presidential election.
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 muhammadu Buhari served.
It is therefore a sign of political desperation for the failed 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.