“The investiture will take place on Tuesday June 12, 2018, a date which in future years will replace May 29 as a national public holiday in celebration of Nigeria’s Democracy Day.” Nigeria DemocracyDay Democracy June12
by the late business mogul and candidate of the defunct Social Democratic Party , Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola. Abiola died in incarceration during the regime of the late Gen. Sani Abacha.
While concerted efforts were put in place to stabilise the country, several groups including different socio-cultural organisations, civil rights organisations such as the National Democratic Coalition revolted and demanded for the restoration of Abiola’s mandate and democracy in well coordinated protests both within and outside the country. This eventually forced the military government of Gen.
In Buhari’s declaration last year, the president had said Democracy Day anniversary would henceforth be marked on June 12 in honour of the late philanthropist instead of May 29. Buhari also said Abiola would be conferred with the nation’s highest honour, the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic , reserved exclusively for Nigeria’s presidents.
“Accordingly, after due consultations, the Federal Government has decided that henceforth June 12 will be celebrated as Democracy Day. While reacting yesterday, NADECO commended Buhari for endorsing June 12 as Democracy Day and bestowing honour on Abiola, but said it is worried that none of the critical issues it raised about the system of governance during its press conference in 2019 when Buhari recognised Abiola had been addressed even though they “remain critical and fundamental towards resolving the incessant political instability, economic misery, national mutual mistrust, lack of cohesion and unacceptable level of...
It noted the fact that fiscal federalism has been abandoned since the advent of the military governance and had decreed appropriation to the central government of the major sources from which the regions were raising resources to fund their developmental programmes, the atomized/component states since then do very little for Internally Generated Revenue , since all they do is wait for the monthly allocations from the Federation Account, except for very few states that can pay their bills...
“For instance, we have a selective mode of election where individuals, who claim to be godfathers, decide and or select who represents the people and not through free, fair democratic process, and in effect such public officers are directly responsible to their masters and not to the electorate.”
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