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.
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.”
https://allafrica.com/stories/201306110304.html
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