“Painfully, I have asked you, my compatriots, to sacrifice a little more for the survival of our country,” said President Bola Tinubu in his June 12 Democracy Day broadcast.
Those who won and experienced victory in the various elections are elated and fulfilled, those who lost are disenchanted and disappointed.
In March 2021, the Ondo government ordered an ‘indefinite suspension’ of activities of NURTW in the state, following a leadership tussle.
The nationwide broadcast on Monday, June 12, at 7:00 a.m. is to commemorate this year’s Democracy Day.
Ms Akinlade who made the declaration on behalf of the federal government, congratulated all Nigerians on the occasion.
The IGP said that with these arrests, the internal security situation of the country had relatively been calm in the last five months.
Mr Abiola was adjudged winner of the 1993 presidential election, annulled by former military president, Ibrahim Babangida.
The people deserve no less. In this, I shall disappoint neither them nor you, Mr. President.
It is possible to declare that the ways in which we have practised our democracy have deepened contradictions, negative coalitions, distrust, disloyalty and unpatriotic tendencies.
As part of activities to mark the 2022 Democracy Day, Guards Brigade Nigerian Army on Monday led the Nigerian Armed Forces and Nigeria Police in a special parade.
