The Coalition in Defence of Nigerian Democracy and Constitution, has warned eminent Nigerians from south west region invited to the investiture of MKO Abiola as GCFR to beware of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Greek gift.
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka; human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN),late Gani Fawehinmi’s and late MKO Abiola’s family were among guests invited for the event scheduled for tomorrow in Abuja.
The CDNDC said in a statement by its Convener, Ariyo-Dare Atoye, that other Nigerians and global observers, would be watching to see how the politically sophisticated people of the South-West handle a “clearly contrived June 12 ceremony designed to serve as an elixir to a fading administration.”
“How did the President Buhari arrive at the decision to honour MKO Abiola, Gani Fawehinmi and a deserter, Babagana Kingibe, who betrayed Abiola, together in a list of three, without in equal manner acknowledges the sacrifice of Alfred Rewane, Bagauda Kaltho, Kudirat Abiola, Abraham Adesanya and even the NADECO ship that paddled the struggle?”, the group inquired.
The group said if Gani was alive today, he would have rejected the GCON award given the myriad problems the Buhari administration had failed to address.
It added, “And were he alive today, there was no way a Gani Fawehinmi would have accepted such a deceptive award when Leah Sharibu and other Chibok girls are still in captivity and the ethnic cleansing in the Middle Belt continues unabated”.
