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Buhari renames Abuja stadium after MKO Abiola

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Buhari receiving the Presidential Panel Report on reform of Special Anti-Robbery Squad-SARS (2018), from the Chairman of the Panel on Police Reform, Barrister Tony Ojukwu, at the State House, Abuja. Photo/Twitter/AsoRock

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday renamed Abuja National Stadium after the late Chief MKO Abiola.

“Today, I propose the renaming of the Abuja National Stadium,” Buhari said this during his Democracy Day speech at the Eagle’s Square, Abuja.

“Henceforth it will be called the Moshood Abiola National Stadium.”

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