How PDP Danced On Abiola’s Grave For 16Yrs – Lai Mohammed

Information Minister, Alh. Lai Mohammed, has accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of dancing on the grave of late MKO Abiola for 16 years while it coordinated the nation’s affairs.

Mohammed said this in the light of notions in some quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration of June 12 as Nigeria’s new Democracy Day and his investiture of GCFR title on Abiola were political moves.

THE WHISTLER recalls that President Buhari had conferred the national honours on late Abiola for his supposed victory at the June 12, 1993, presidential election.

Addressing the wide notions, however, that the president’s gesture was in bid to sway votes for himself from the South West in 2019, the minister wondered why the PDP failed to make the alleged political move in its 16 years in power.

“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,” Mohammed told The Cable.

“Why didn’t they do it for politics?” he queried.