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‘No Words To Capture The Depth Of My Gratitude’ — MKO Abiola’s Daughter Thanks Buhari

Following the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari to honour late Moshood Abiola, the late politician’s daughter, Hafsat Abiola-Costello has expressed her feelings over the development in a write-up. Buhari in a press release on Wednesday conferred on MKO Abiola a posthumous honour of GCFR and also declared June 12 Nigeria’s Democracy Day. Hafsat, who is also the President of Women in Africa expressed her happiness and gratitude to Muhammadu Buhari, while at the same time attacking Obasanjo, a beneficiary of June 12, for ignoring MKO. ”Obasanjo did not even ask for a minute of silence for the Democracy martyrs on his inauguration on May 29, 1999,” she noted. Here is Hafsat’s poem: “Twenty five years after June 12: Our Long Wait for Justice is Ending “I had expected that the handover from military rule to democracy would be held on the 12th of June.That would have signalled the completion of a circle that began with a dream deferred.That became one fulfilled but I wai...