The enthusiasm of the Senate to lap up President Muhammadu Buhari's decision to honour Chief Moshood Abiola's role in the evolvement of the nation's democracy has again brought to bear the seemingly beggarly role of the legislature in the polity.
Following a motion brought by Senator Biodun Olujumi, the Senate resolved to call on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to declare the results of the inchoate June 12, 1993, presidential election. The senators in the same vein also called on the authorities to pay outstanding remuneration of a president to the family of the late Chief Abiola and the equivalent of a vice-president's entitlements to Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, who was Abiola's running mate in the election.
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