Olalekan Adetayo, John Alechenu, Sunday Aborisade, Friday Olokor, Leke Baiyewu, Adelani Adepegba, Samson Folarin, Oladimeji Ramon, Dayo Ojerinde, Armstrong Bakam, Peter Dada and Kayode Idowu The Nati
onal Democratic Coalition has rated the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , low on the delivery of his campaign promises.
NADECO said, “President Buhari’s so-called three pillars – to secure Nigeria, to revamp the economy and to fight corruption – have clearly recorded very low achievements because the current centralist and unitarist governance structure remains unsuitable, unsustainable and counterproductive in an heterogeneous geographical and political space where the different ethnic nationalities or groups of them must be free to govern themselves as they deem fit, given the divergent languages, religions,...
It said, “We have to return the faith of our people in the ballot box like June 12 and restructure the polity so we can make progress under federalism. Ologbondinyan said, “Our party demands that President Buhari speak to the issue of amendments to the Electoral Act in his June 12 address and to, within the next 14 days, initiate the process of returning the Electoral Act Amendment Bill to the National Assembly, with a strong commitment to sign it into law immediately it is passed by the legislature.”
“Having come this far in our journey as a nation, we have no reason to doubt our ability to govern ourselves and attain our great potential as a nation.”The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, congratulated Nigerians on the occasion of this year’s Democracy Day. “We dare not forget how we got to this point. Planting the seedlings of democracy required much toil and sacrifice. Many potent forces tried to prevent both the planting and the harvest.
Also to join are the Special Adviser to the President on Political matters, Babafemi Ojudu; former Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief Dele Alake; publisher of Ovation magazine, Dele Momodu, daughter of the late Chief MKO Abiola, Dr Hafsat Abiola-Costello, and Cherie Blair, wife of former UK Prime Minister.Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar said the late Chief Mashood Abiola had continued to be the symbol of the June 12 struggle 27 years after the event.
“To get at this problem would require the voting citizens of the country to undertake a more critical evaluation of national leadership recruitment – a rare gift which democracy guarantees through the instrumentality of periodic elections.”The Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress described the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 presidential election, Bashorun MKO Abiola, as a “martyr of democracy, who paid the supreme price for the democracy we now enjoy in Nigeria.
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