Edewor, Abiola’s first child, thanks Buhari

The eldest daughter of late  Kashimawo Olawale ABIOLA , winner of June 12 Presidential election on the platform of Social Democratic Party, SDP, Mrs Omolola Abiola-Edewor,  says President Muhammadu Buhari has shown an act of uncommon courage by honouring and immortalising her father.

 Omolola, iIn a statement titled: “JUNE 12 – President Muhammadu Buhari rekindles Nigeria’s Hope” issued in Abeokuta, said with the honour done to Abiola, Buhari has “officially laid to rest the ghost of the annulment of that election.”

According to her, the President, by the gesture, has signed a new democratic contract with the Nigerian people that he stands firmly with democrats and democratic tenets thus denouncing autocracy and injustice.

Abiola-Edewor, a two-term House of Representatives member, applauded the National Assembly for the passage of the June 12 bill proposed by the executive.

She, however, implores the President to urgently address the security issues in the country, noting that it “has taken a very worrisome and dire dimension threatening our very existence.”

The statement reads “‘Lola Abiola-Edewor, the eldest daughter of late MKO Abiola, the winner of the June 12, 1993 election on SDP platform has applauded the steps taken by the Federal Government to officially lay to rest the ghost of the annulment of that election by giving it a decent closure claiming that short of bringing her father back to life, the federal government under the amiable President Muhammadu Buhari has done  well by honouring his memory.

“On behalf of the Abiola family, she, therefore, thanked the president, the federal government, the legislature for ratifying and passing  the bill as proposed by the executive and indeed all Nigerians for keeping fate with the struggle all of these years, particularly the civil society groups and of course NADECO.