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President Bola Tinubu has joined Nigerians across the world to celebrate 30 years of the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, and the fifth anniversary of Democracy Day. Tinubu sent a message to people, who refused to accept defeat at elections, saying they do not deserve victory in future polls.
In a broadcast this morning, Tinubu eulogised the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola, and other martyrs of the struggle that followed, saying Abiola paid the supreme price for democracy to survive.
The president noted that orders used to truncate or abridge democracy would no longer be tolerated. He apologised to the Nigerian people for the pains they suffered following the recent removal of fuel subsidy.
Commemorating the June 12 Democracy Day, too, Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, yesterday, said this year’s edition was significant because one of the leading lights of the June 12 struggle, Tinubu, was now Nigeria’s president. Therefore, Afenifere stated, actualising Abiola’s dreams for Nigeria and the world now rested on him.
Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, said it was time for Nigerians to reflect on their journey to becoming a truly democratic society.
Similarly, presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, expressed worry over the current state of the nation’s politics and concluded that Nigeria’s democracy was deeply troubled while its destiny remained uncertain and precarious.
At the same time, National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) called on Tinubu to immediately set in motion modalities for the implementation of the Nasir el-Rufai committee report on federal constitutional government, as promised by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
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