POLITICS:INEC To Release June 12 Election Result

recommendations of the Senate is anything to go by, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC will be releasing result of June 12 presidential election soon.

Recall that Senate while backing President Buhari’s declaration of June 12 as the new Democracy Day, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (then the National Electoral Commission) to declare the results of the 1993 election.

The Upper Chamber of the National Assembly also urged Buhari to declare Abiola and Kingibe as ex-president and former vice-president and approve their entitlements as former president and vice-president, respectively; adding that June 12 should be declared national holiday.

These were the prayers unanimously granted by the lawmakers following the adoption of a point of order raised by Senator Lanre Tejuoso (Ogun-Central).

Raising the point of order, Tejuoso said, “President MKO is my constituent and my constituency has given birth to at least three heads of state in the country, from President MKO Abiola to Chief Ernest Shonekan to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo; it is the presidential constituency of Nigeria.

“I want to refer this Senate to an occurrence in Kenya about three weeks ago when they had a national day of prayer and fasting, and the president of that country in his wisdom and spirit of sportsmanship invited the opposition leader in a reconciliatory move to restore peace into the politics of Kenya.

“I believe that is a wind of reconciliation in Africa, which started in Kenya and blew into Nigeria yesterday (Wednesday). By President Muhammadu Buhari now declaring June 12 as Democracy Day instead of May 29 which is a child of June 12, I believe Mr. President needs further encouragement to continue this reconciliation that he has started.

“There are so many reconciliations that we need in Nigeria. We even need reconciliation between the executive and the legislature. We need to encourage Mr. President. What he has started took us 25 years to achieve. I believe that this Senate should acknowledge this major feat achieved by Mr. President and to ensure that the peace that we all need in Nigeria pre-2019 election will begin to develop from now.”