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He further said “His running mate as Vice President, Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe, is also to be invested with a GCON.” (Grand Commander of Nigeria).
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Controversial Senator, Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West, has cautioned President Muhammdu Buhari against breaching the constitution in his latest move of conferring the honour of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) on Moshood Abiola.
Dino, Citing Chapter 43(2) of the National Honours Act on Thursday, 7th June, argued that the act does not allow for conferment of the honours on non-Nigerians.
He also, like Justice Belgore claimed that Abiola is dead and that automatically makes him not to be a Nigerian.
“I am a democrat, I believe very sincerely that Chief M.K.O Abiola deserve even more than the president has pronounced because he is a true patriot, philanthropist and should be so decorated.”
“But Mr. President, we are governed in the country by the constitution and extant laws. No matter how beautiful a situation is, the law of the land remains the law of the land.”
To buttress his point using the law he says, “Subsection 2 of the act says a person shall be eligible for appointment to any rank or holder unless he is a citizen of Nigeria. A dead man is not a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We should not be emotional about this. The law remains the law.”
“Subject to the next notice, a person shall be appointed to a particular rank of an order when the president receives him in person.”
“Mr. President, they said in person for us to do what we are supposed to do, we would have to amend the provisions of this act because anything we need to do, we have to do in accordance with the provisions of the law,” he concluded.
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Meanwhile, the Daughter of the late politician, Hafsat Abiola have taken to social expressing her joy and appreciation in form of poetry.
She says,
”Dear friends, words cannot truly express how happy I feel. Here is President Buhari’s executive order declaring that June 12, the day of the election that my father won, would henceforth be Nigeria’s Democracy Day and conferring on my dad the title of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, a title reserved for presidents. Twenty five years after June 12…I tried to capture my feelings in the (sort of) poem below.Please celebrate with me”
“I commend @MBuhari for announcing June 12th as our new Democracy Day. This is long overdue and I am pleasantly surprised.I also commend him for honoring Chief MKO Abiola, the winner of the June 12th 1993 presidential election, with the posthumus award of GCON.This is great news!”
