Junaid Mohammed, a Second
Republic lawmaker, on Thursday lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari for
declaring June 12 as the new Democracy Day and posthumously awarding Chief
M.K.O. Abiola, Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR).
Mohammed maintained that Buhari’s
recognition of Abiola at a time elections were close was “deceitful”.
The
former lawmaker stressed that Buhari’s “sinister antics” was aimed at amassing
votes from the South West in 2019.
The fierce critic of the current
administration said Buhari should be, “ashamed of himself” for waiting till
2018 before correcting a past “injustice.”
According to Mohammed, “This is
deceitful politics, Buhari is doing that in anticipation of the forth coming
election in 2019 but those who know him like I do will tell you that he has
never respected or admired Abiola. So doing this now shows that he is so
desperate and is prepared to do anything deceitful and dishonourable to
motivate votes.
“Buhari has no other arithmetic
because the bulk of the votes Abiola got did not come from the South West, they
came from the North and the East, so he thinks this action is the master’s
stroke that will win him the election but he is mistaken.
“Nigerians are smart enough to
see through this deceitful antics, Buhari was one of those against Abiola. To
confirm this deceit, he took a traitor of Abiola, Babangana Kingibe to honour
him too.
“I don’t understand why anybody
who was familiar with that election will honour Abiola and Kingibe, who is a
traitor never known to be loyal to anybody than himself.
“As we speak, Kingibe is an
employee of the Presidency and he is part of the cabal, so this is sinister
because 2019 is around the corner.
“Buhari has been in power since
2015, he didn’t remember to rectify an injustice but only now that elections
are coming that he remembered to do so, he should be ashamed of himself.”
Recall that Buhari, in a
statement issued yesterday, had declared Abiola as the winner of the annulled
June 12 election and replacing May 29 with June 12 as new Democracy Day.
Buhari had argued that June 12,
1993, the date of the election considered to be the fairest in Nigeria’s
history, “was far more symbolic of democracy in the Nigerian context than May
29 or even October 1.”
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