Honouring Abiola will not guarantee your 2019 ticket - PDP tells PMB.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Wednesday, in Abuja, said the national honour proposed to be conferred on the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993, Chief MKO Abiola, by President Muhammadu Buhari, are smacks of hypocrisy and political desperation ahead of 2019 presidential election.

The party said that President Buhari’s action merely sought to use the name and person of Abiola to gain a political capital and not out of genuine reverence and recognition for him.

In a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the party recalled that President Buhari, who was serving in the military administration of General Sani Abacha during the travails of Abiola, did not associate either by words or actions with the late winner of June 12 election.

He further stated that history did not record President Buhari as sympathetic to the Abiola’s family when his wife, Kudirat, was gruesomely murdered by the agents of a government which President Buhari served.

His words, "It is, therefore, a sign of political desperation for President Buhari to seek to use Chief Abiola’s name as a tool to sway Nigerians in less than twelve months to an election where he, (President Buhari) is seeking a second term.

"It is also shocking that the respectable grave of Abiola can be dishonoured by granting a posthumous award on him along with someone who denounced the June 12 mandate and preferred the company of his (Abiola’s) traducers".

Useless PDP . Why didnt they honour him in 16 years?

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the dullard just speed up his retirement..

now is a sure bet..

dullardeen and his midget is retired already..

confirmed.

This thread is strictly for wailers

I wish PDP will lose more states in 2019 so that all these Useless people parading themselves as party Officials will go and look for something better to do... You party was in power for 16 yrs and you did not do the right thing, Now you are disturbing us with your useless noise...

Honouring MKO or not, no any candidate can defeat President BUHARI in 2019 presidential election.

No reasonable Nigerian will go to the poll to vote buhari because he recognized june12 as democracy day except zombies . back to daura over sure pass

President Buhari didn't do it to get votes, he did it to clean up your shame, he did it to right the wrong you could not do for 16 years of power, he did it to change how Nigerians see their past heroes, he did it to honor MKO; a hero of democracy. What PDP could not do in 16 years PMB did today. This recognition had been long overdue but PMB just CHANGED that