As accolades over restoration of Abiola’s political credentials trend in national political discourse, his business empire, a key victim of his political crises, seems to be all but dead, going by Vanguard’s findings. Also affected were the business interests of many pro-June 12 agitators, most of whose businesses suffocated as they fled into exile.

THE Presidency said, yesterday, that the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election said to had been won by Chief Moshood Abiola, was a conspiracy carried out by military officers, the elite, judges and money bags.

High profile  Nigerians were, yesterday, dodging from publicly exposing themselves to the latest war of words between  the Muhammadu Buhari administration and former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has cried out that his life was under threat as there was a plot by Buhari-led government to implicate and eventually prosecute him in order to silence him over his opposition again the government. Obasanjo, in a statement issued by his media aide Kehinde Akinyemi in Abeokuta on Friday said he got the hint through impeccable security sources and that the security of his life cannot be guaranted.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to recognise Chief Moshood Abiola’s position in the evolution of the country’s democracy rebounded in the two chambers of the National Assembly yesterday with legislators applauding his decision but questioning his procedure.

In a landmark decision, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday proclaimed June 12 as the country’s Democracy Day to be celebrated as a public holiday from next year in commemoration of the momentous June 12, 1993 Presidential election won by Chief Moshood Abiola.

The National Assembly has drawn the battle line with President Muhammadu Buhari as it, yesterday, charged him to address threats to the lives of the citizenry and the country’s democracy, failing which it would initiate constitutional actions against him.

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, met with the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris;  Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami and Director-General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Lawal Daura, at the State House, Abuja, presumably over Police face-off with Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki..

Police Force headquarters in Abuja yesterday invited President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to answer questions relating to what the Police referred to as allegations indicting him from confessions of five gang leaders arrested for participation in the April 5 Offa bank robberies and killings of 33 innocent persons.

The decision to forge ahead with the talks despite the scepticism on the part of many of the stakeholders, Sunday Vanguard learnt, is coming from the determination of Senate President Bukola Saraki to press for the option of dialogue despite the seeming move by extremists on both sides to sabotage the talks.