Co-Chairman of Nigerian Intervention
Movement (NIM), Olisa Agbakoba has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has won
some hearts by declaring June 12 as Democracy Day.
The former President of the
Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), however, said the move was a political strategy
ahead of the 2019 election.
He said this on Tuesday at the
silver jubilee of June 12 organized by NIM with June 12 Movement at MKO Abiola
Crescent.
According to him, the President
was trying to court the human rights community and the Yoruba.
But Agbakoba stressed that Buhari
deserves commendation, saying former President, Olusegun Obasanjo and
ex-Military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, failed to honour
Abiola and others.
“But let salute him (Buhari)
because Obasanjo didn’t do it; IBB could not do it.”, he said.
“So it is very clear that he has
done it with the context of wanting to shape politics of 2019. I hope Nigerians
understand the context behind it. It is a political move.”
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