Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed has declared that celebrating 24th Democracy Day in Nigeria is a pointer to the fact that democratic
The governor made the declaration in his goodwill message on the occasion of the 2023 Democracy Day and asserted that there is no better alternative to democracy as a form of government that gives the people the right to choose who to govern them and how they want to be governed.
“It is this democratic right of choice that puts elected governments at both the national and state levels on their toes so as not to incur the wrath of the electorate by being voted out of power during periodic elections,” Governor Mohammed said. According to him, “Bauchi is the only State we can call ours. We must therefore forget about whatever happened during the electioneering campaigns and come together to collectively work for its economic, social and political development.
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