{"id":62537,"date":"2018-06-06T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62537"},"modified":"2018-06-06T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T20:30:07","slug":"national-honours-buharis-action-smacks-of-desperation-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/national-honours-buharis-action-smacks-of-desperation-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"National Honours: Buhari&#8217;s Action Smacks of Desperation, Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the national honour proposed to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">be conferred on the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993, Chief MKO Abiola,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">by President Muhammadu Buhari, smacks of hypocrisy and political<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">desperation ahead of 2019 presidential election, according to a release<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">signed by it&#8217;s spokesman, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">According to him, &#8220;PDP declares that President Buhari&#8217;s action merely<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">sought to use the name and person of Chief Abiola to gain a political<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">capital and not out of genuine reverence and recognition for him.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The party recalls that President Buhari, who was serving in the military<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">administration of General Sani Abacha during the travails of Chief MKO<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Abiola, did not associate either by words or actions with the late winner<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">of June 12 election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The party further stated that history did not record President Buhari as<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">sympathetic to the Abiola&#8217;s family when his wife, Kudirat, was<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">gruesomely murdered by the agents of a government which President Buhari<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">served.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It is therefore a sign of political desperation for President Buhari to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">seek to use Chief Abiola&#8217;s name as a tool to sway Nigerians in less than<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">twelve months to an election where he, (President Buhari) is seeking a<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">second term.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It is also shocking that the respectable grave of Abiola can be<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">dishonoured by granting a posthumous award on him along with someone who<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">denounced the June 12 mandate and preferred the company of his<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">(Abiola&#8217;s) traducers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Even those who now masquerade as change agents were opposed to the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">naming of University of Lagos after Chief Abiola.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;If President Buhari genuinely wants to honour Chief Abiola,\u00a0 he should<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">do so by ending all anti-democratic proclivities of his administration<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">and allow for the rule of law and respect for our constitution.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The PDP therefore urges President Buhari to shed his desperate actions<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">in his quest to win the 2019 presidential election as Nigerians can no<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">longer be deceived by such antics.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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