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Democracy Day and Buhari’s unsung democratic credentials
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Mon Jun 14 2021
In his 2021 Democracy Day address on Saturday, President Muhamadu Buhari evoked nostalgia over his vision for Nigeria’s democratic future as far back as June 6, 2018, when he formally instituted the day June 12 of every year, as the country’s new Democracy Day instead of May 29.
According to him, his desire was to celebrate the freedom and victory of “one people, one country and one Nigeria”. Not only was the day June 12 so instituted, but he had also gone further to confer even posthumously, the highest national honour of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (GCFR), a title usually reserved for Heads of State of the country, on late Chief Moshood Abiola, the presumed winner of the 1993 election. To accentuate the gesture, he also honoured Alhaji Babagana Kingibe, Abiola’s running mate and late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Nigeria’s foremost human rights lawyer, for his role in
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