Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has called on President Bola Tinubu to name the Aso Rock Presidential Villa after the acclaimed winner of the June 12 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola. It added that it was still waiting for the proper recognition of Abiola as a former president. The group said it believed that there was nothing too much to give a man who sacrificed his life for the enthronement of democracy in the country.
Its National President, Debo Adeniran, in a letter dated June 14 and addressed to President Tinubu, a copy of which was made available to THISDAY yesterday, said it was disappointed that after the president’s speech on June 12, Abiola wasn’t recognised as a former president. The group recalled that given the importance of June 12 in the history of Nigeria, former President Muhammadu Buhari on June 6, 2018, set the day aside as Nigeria’s Democracy Day. It said: “Democracy Day carries huge significance for many Nigerians.
It was on this date in 1993 that a general election was held for the first time since the 1993 military coup, which toppled the democratically-elected government of the late former President Shehu Shagari. Many observers have described the event as the most significant in Nigeria’s post-independence political history. “To this end, we at the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) were taken aback and our hopes were dashed during and after your Democracy Day speech.
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