Deji Elumoyewrites that this year’s Democracy Day was marked for the first time with an address to a joint sitting of the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu last Thursday.
June 12 has become a watershed in the history of the Nigerian nation. It was a day Nigerians of voting age voted in their numbers to elect the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief MoshoodKashimawoOlawaleAbiola emerging as the clear winner against the candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC), Alhaji Bashir Tofa.
Few days after, the then Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida annulled the election, described globally as the freest and fairest poll in the nation’s political history, sparking widespread protests and civil unrest across the country.
