The family of the late Moshood Abiola, winner of the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election, has called on the Federal Government to officially recognise Abiola as an ex-president of Nigeria.
Head of the family, Olanrewaju Abiola, made the demand on President Muhammadu Buhari at the family house in Abeokuta.
Mr Abiola said the recognition had become necessary for Nigerian leaders to rule in peace.
He commended Buhari for conferring a posthumous highest national honour of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (GCFR) on late Abiola and recognising June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day.
He, however, urged the president to actualise the mandate that Nigerians gave to his late younger brother, Moshood, on June 12, 1993, by conferring an official status of an ex-president of the nation on him.
Abiola also demanded that all the entitlements that should have accrued to his late brother from 1993 to date should be fully paid to the family.
He called on Buhari to liase with the National Assembly to debate the issue and subsequently pass it as a law.
“On June 12, last year when I spoke with the president, he said he has given him the honour, but we want it in black and white.
“Let the members of the National Assembly debate it and pass it into law.
“Moshood was the breadwinner of the family and since his death, the family members have been suffering,” he said.
