BEVERLY HILLS, June 09, (THEWILL) – The Federal Government has declared Friday, June 12 as a public holiday to mark this year’s Democracy Day.
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, announced this on Monday in a press release signed by Georgina Ehuriah, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior.
THEWILL recalls that President Muhammadu Buhari had in 2018 declared June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day, in place of May 29, the anniversary of the inauguration of the Fourth Republic, which since 2000 had been marked as Nigeria’s Democracy Day.
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The President made the change in honour of Moshood Abiola, who was presumed to have won the June 12, 1993 election that was annulled by the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida.
Abiola eventually died in detention on July 8, 1998, while being held for declaring himself president over the annulled poll.
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