President Buhari
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja –
To commemorate Nigeria’s Democracy Day, President Muhammadu Buhari will broadcast to the nation on Friday, June 12, 2020.
Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity), Femi Adesina, who made this known in a statement on Thursday, said the broadcast at 7am.
He enjoined television and radio stations as well as other electronic media outlets to hook up to the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Radio Nigeria respectively for the broadcast.
This is the first Democracy Day to be celebrated on June 12 as the event had, since 2000, been marked on May 29th.
President Buhari had on June 6, 2018, declared June 12 as the new Democracy Day and consequently gave his inaugural address for his second term on June 12, 2019.
June 12 is celebrated as Democracy Day to mark the June 12, 1993 presidential election presumed to have been won by late Bashorun MKO Abiola on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
That election, described as the fairest and freest election in the annals of Nigeria’s political history, was, however, annulled by the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, thus throwing the nation into a five-year political crisis that almost tore Nigeria into pieces.