President Muhammadu Buhari meets with Tinubu on Monday in Abuja (picture: State House)
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has counseled President Muhammadu Buhari for his choice to present a nationwide award to late MKO Abiola.
Tinubu mentioned he obtained the information that June 12 will change May 29 as Democracy Day with pleasure.
A press release he signed on Thursday learn: “This is sweet information for democracy and a proud second for Nigeria. While unimaginable to return in time and alter the previous, we should do our utmost to right the wrongs of the previous. This is what President Muhammadu Buhari has completed by this choice. He has proven all Nigerians and the world that now we have the ethical fortitude to objectively face our historical past, study from it and enhance our society by advantage of this studying.
“June 12, greater than another day, symbolizes the struggles and sacrifices made by numerous Nigerians to determine democracy as our method of nationwide governance. Chief MKO Abiola and others gave their lives that we would have democracy, that the desire of the folks can be sovereign and never suppressed by the desire of the few. This proclamation by President Muhammadu Buhari will ceaselessly memorialize the sacrifices made by these patriots who gave of themselves in service of such a noble and rightful goal.
“The award of GCFR to Chief Abiola serves as an acknowledgement that he received the 1993 election and may have been allowed to function our president after profitable that free and truthful expression of the favored will. We additionally commend the award to MKO Abiola’s VP candidate, Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe and that given to Chief Gani Fawehinmi. Chief Fawehinmi was a fearless advocate for democracy and the human rights of the frequent man. Whenever and wherever he spoke, it was the language of reality to energy.
“The designation of June 12 as Democracy Day is the achievement of the dream and efforts of many people. With this achievement comes a civic duty. We should consecrate this new vacation and ourselves in order that we make it a residing vacation. More so than ever earlier than, the spirit of June 12 should dwell inside us. It should information our politics and the way we govern ourselves. We should constantly dedicate ourselves to the freedoms and rights in addition to the duties that democracy bestows on us all, political pal and foe alike.
“This presidential proclamation ought to ceaselessly bury ill-conceived notion that President Muhammadu Buhari is ambivalent to democracy. He has proven that he not solely respects democracy however duly honors it. Democracy could also be tough and untidy at occasions however it stays the type of authorities greatest suited to a society as various and multifaceted as ours.
“Today, the sun shines a bit more brightly. The sound of democracy peals more resolutely across the land. The sacrifices of Chief Abiola and others have been affirmed by the federal government he once should have led. Democracy has been given its proper seat and day. History has been corrected to the extent humanly possible. Nigeria continues to define its better self. Of this new Democracy Day and what it symbolizes, we all should be equally proud.”