Democracy Day: FG declares Friday, ( Tommoroow )June 12, public holiday
The federal government has declared tomorrow Friday, June 12 as a public holiday to mark this year’s Democracy Day.
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, announced this on Monday in a press release signed by Georgina Ehuriah, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior.
President Muhammadu Buhari had in 2018 declared June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day, in place of May 29, the anniversary of the inauguration of the Fourth Republic, which since 2000 had been marked as Nigeria’s Democracy Day.
President Buhari made the change in honour of the memory of Moshood Abiola, who won the June 12, 1993 election that was annulled by the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida.
Late Chief Abiola eventually died in detention on July 8, 1998, while being held for declaring himself president over the annulled poll.