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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
A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Alhaji Babagana Kingibe, says Nigeria would be a better and prosperous society when its citizens strive to abide by Rotary Club’s four-way test principle. Kingibe, who was the vice-presidential running mate to late Chief Moshood Abiola in the annulled 1993 presidential election, said the four […]
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Fellow Nigerians, here we go again. Let me say right away that the ways of our politicians are not the ways of ordinary mortals. At a time our leaders at all levels should be visibly worried and vociferously concerned about our myriad of problems and humongous challenges, they are busy gallivanting and getting ready for the next elections. Never since the last civil war has Nigeria been this divided and dangerously close to another civil war. At the same time, the whole world is in the grip of a rampaging pandemic, called the COVID-19 virus, which is ravaging and savaging everything that lies in its wake. Nigeria is not excluded from the deadly force of this awesome plague. Nevertheless, it is as if our politicians are hell bent on fiddling while Rome burns and going about doing their usual business of horse trading. Since it appears all that seems to matter to our politicians, and indeed the rest of us, is politics,