President Bola Ahmed Tinubu says his administration would do everything possible to protect Nigeria’s democracy.
Tinubu made the declaration during his first nationwide broadcast as President on Nigeria’s Democracy Day, on Monday June 12.
He commended the unrelenting pro-democracy fight demonstrated against the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election that culminated into the eventual return to democracy in 1999.
Tinubu likened the fight for democracy to the battle against colonial rule by the country’s founding fathers that resulted in the gaining of Nigeria’s independence in 1960.
Tinubu described the 24-year-old return of democratic governance in 1999 as Nigeria’s “second independence” following the defiance of civil society against the “unjust annulment of the country’s freest and fairest presidential election held on June 12, 1993, which was won by late Chief M.K.O Abiola”.
He urged Nigerians to jealously defend the democracy they fought so hard for.
