POLITICS: June 12: ‘don’t Declare MKO Abiola President’ – Bode George Warns Buhari

Chief Olabode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised those calling on President Muhammadu
Buhari to declare the late Chief MKO Abiola as a President posthumously.
According to him, the move may result in a constitutional crisis.
Despite giving the late Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993
presidential election the highest title in the country, Grand Commander of
Federal Republic (GCFR), and declaring June 12 as replacement for May 29 as
Democracy day, there has been sustained call on President Buhari to declare
Abiola as president.
Reacting, George urged those making the calls not to plunge the nation into
crisis, saying President Buhari had done enough by immortalising the late
Abiola.
He told Daily Independent yesterday: “Why are people talking like this? Is
President Buhari the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)? So,
President Buhari will now declare Abiola as a former President of Nigeria
because he is President? We are throwing so many things into this issue.
“There are many bigger problems in this country. We are going to use that as a
red letter day. Have we learnt any lessons from the fall-out of June 12? Those
are things we should celebrate. What has happened has happened, can we
reverse anything by saying they should declare Abiola as a former president

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