Happy
Democracy Day, Nigeria!
The
people had known all along that June 12 is their preferred democracy day, but
President Jonathan (6 May 2010 – 29 May 2015) and all the Presidents before him
insisted on ramming May 29 down their throats.
In
this 2013 cartoon, the Secretary to the Federal Government is trying too hard
to convince you and I (U & I) to accept May 29, but we aren’t having it.
And
then President Buhari came along (29 May 2015 – 29 May 2023) to do our bidding.
According to President Tinubu, it took the dauntless courage of President
Buhari in 2018 to reach “back into history to rectify a national misdeed by
making June 12 Democracy Day.”
The Democracy and
Transformation We Mean
THISDAY 11 June
2013 By Anyim Pius Anyim
It is now two
weeks since we all celebrated Democracy Day. Within the intervening
period, Nigerians have had time to digest and react to the Mid-Term Review
Report, through which the government of President Goodluck Jonathan gave us an
update on policy and governance issues under the Transformation Agenda. We
recall that on May 29, the president said: “Democracy is as much a result as it
is a process and today’s event invites us to reflect on both the processes and
results of our thriving democracy. There is evidence of stronger democratic
institutions. There is even stronger evidence of an evolving culture of better
consultation, better stakeholder input and better mass buy-in on all major
issues of national development.”
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