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”.
Speaking with DAILY POST, 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.”