The Minister of Information and
Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed at the weekend stated that the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, danced on MKO Abiola’s grave for the 16 years they were in power.
He stated that the PDP did not
recognise June 12 for what it was, and now that President Muhammadu Buhari has
done so, they are now dismissing the action as political.
Recall that Buhari had on June
6th announced the conferment of the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic,
GCFR, the highest honour in the country on MKO Abiola.
The investiture held on June 12.
The President, in a statement he personally signed, also declared that June 12
would replace May 29 as Democracy Day.
“For 16 years the PDP danced on
the grave of MKO Abiola and failed to recognise June 12 for what it was, and
when President Buhari decided to take action and recognise MKO Abiola
posthumously, the naysayers went on social media to say it is done for
politics,” he said.
Mohammed, who stated this in an
interview with TheCable, added that his question for the PDP was simple: “Why
didn’t they do it for politics?”
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