Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State says the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , will be remembered for recognising June 12 as the nation’s Democracy Day.
The governor stated this during his 2020 Democracy Day Speech in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital on Friday.
He, however, appreciated the sacrifice made by a coalition of civil society groups, students, labour movement, politicians, rights’ activists, journalists, academics and others in the struggle that led to the return of Nigeria’s democracy in 1999. “It is even more satisfying that the symbol of the struggle for the enthronement of democratic order in Nigeria, Basorun Mashood Kasimawo Olawale Abiola, the winner of the June 12, 1993 election whom the previous administrations had refused to recognise as the winner of the June 12 1993 election, has now been duly acknowledged by the President as indeed, the undisputable winner of the election.
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