Kola Ologbondiyan talking with journalists.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated the nationwide honour conferred on late Moshood Abiola by President Muhammadu Buhari reeks of hypocrisy and political desperation forward of 2019 presidential election.
PDP, in an assertion by its publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, alleged that the president’s motion merely seeks to make use of the title and individual of Abiola to achieve political capital and never out of real reverence and recognition for him.
The opposition party says it sees the announcement as surprising because it recalled the president by no means related, both by phrases or actions, with Abiola.
It stated Buhari was not additionally sympathetic to the Abiola household when Abiola’s spouse, Kudirat, was “gruesomely” murdered by the brokers of an authorities which Buhari served.
“It is due to this fact a signal of political desperation for President Muhammadu Buhari to hunt to make use of Chief Abiola’s title as a device to sway Nigerians in lower than twelve months to an election the place he, (President Muhammadu Buhari) is looking for a second time period.
“It can be surprising that the respectable grave of Abiola might be dishonoured by granting a posthumous award on him together with somebody who denounced the June 12 mandate and most well-liked the corporate of his (Abiola’s) traducers.
The party claims “Even those that now masquerade as change brokers have been against the naming of University of Lagos after Chief Abiola.
The party stated if the president genuinely desires to honour Abiola, he ought to accomplish that by ending all “anti-democratic proclivities of his administration and allow for the rule of law and respect for our constitution”.