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Democracy Day is June 12, a national public holiday in Nigeria. Until June 6, 2018, it was held annually on May 29. Democracy Day marks the day the military handed over power to an elected civilian government in 1999, marking the beginning of the longest continuous civilian rule since Nigeria's independence from colonial rule in 1960.

It is a tradition that has been held annually, beginning in year 2000. June 12 was formerly known as Abiola Day, celebrated in Lagos, Nigeria and some south western states of Nigeria.

Nigeria's Democracy Day is a public holiday to commemorate the restoration of democracy in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. May 29 was initially the official democracy day in Nigeria, marking when the newly elected Olusegun Obasanjo took office as the President of Nigeria in 1999, ending multiple decades of military rule that began in 1966 and had been interrupted only by a brief period of democracy from 1979 to 1983.

On June 6, 2018, eight days after May 29, 2018 had been celebrated as Democracy Day, the President Buhari-led Federal Government of Nigeria declared June 12 to be the new Democracy Day.

Buhari gave his inaugural address for his second term on June 12, 2019. These were done to commemorate the democratic election of MKO Abiola on June 12, 1993, in what has been adjudged to be Nigeria's freest and fairest elections. It was, however, wrongly cancelled by the Ibrahim Babangida Junta.

MKO Abiola was later detained after he rightfully declared himself the president. Chief MKO Abiola died mysteriously after drinking tea during the negotiation of his release.

He started coughing in the presence of Kofi Annan and later died in the hospital. MKO promised the restoration of good governance in Nigeria.

Happy Democracy Day Nigerians!!!

Pakute:
Give us Presidency, it's the turn of the ibos, Yoruba had it in 1999, bla bla bla. Ask them if they had an Abiola, they'd go mute.

OyeofIkoTuN:
Uhmmm Abiola did illegal things to get funds,goan read properly...Besides,your cowardice stinks from 8000000 galaxy miles.

What concern igbos with Abiola?..Was he manlier than ojukwu ?

Insults fulanis that cause your woes and killed his wife or geddifok .

Pakute:
Ojukwu that you refused to vote for twice. He was your hero yet couldn't win a senatorial ticket of his district. Yet you want to compare such an inconsequential man to Abiola who has a national day to his name.

OyeofIkoTuN:
Na igbos them go wan blame ...

No reprisals against fulani whatsoever, no insults, no threats..nothing...

Just public holiday given to them and uka agba siaa....

Something is definitely wrong somewhere...I mean they cannot even dare marry the fulanis ooo yet they think the fulanis send them...

God bless that retarded commenter up there for verifying my claims.

OyeofIkoTuN:
Another trash from you south south claimant.

How does ojukwu relate to abiola and democracy and how he's wife was shot by fulanis and her husband murdered by same lots..?

Are you just hungry or a loafer..because your trash is intriguing ?

comparing a crook and thief called abiola to Ojukwu..

How old was Ojukwu when he led and how old was the so called abiola

Pakute:
Why didn't you vote for Ojukwu your idol? Y'all rejected, demeaned, ridiculed, insulted and rubbished him while he was alive but as soon as he was gone, y'all started singing his kumbaya.. Hypocrites.

OyeofIkoTuN:
Igbos don't do fake politics...
We follow the truth..not politics.. Jam your head for wall

June 12 Annulment Was Payment For Abiola’s Evil Deeds – Sen Owie



Former member of the House of Representatives, former Senate Chief Whip and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rowland Stephen
Owie says the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election was a divine recompense for Abiola’s alleged past political misdeeds.


What is your perspective on the June 12, 1993
election?

When people talk about June 12, June 12; June 12 has no meaning. June 12 is the repayment of evil for MKO Abiola. Whatever you sow, you reap. I said about four years ago that if Abiola had been president he would have been dead.


You think so?

Yes, let me tell you. Before anyone can say that the annulment was evil they should answer four questions. Number one, who was that politician that brought what was called the Maroko land deal to limelight? Who was that politician who used the Maroko land deal as an albatross on the neck of Chief Obafemi Awolowo?
Who is that Nigerian or group of Nigerians who went to Obasanjo and connived with him and removed the Electoral College act from the decree of 1978?

Who is that politician or group of politicians that aided the military to take. over the government of President Shehu Shagari in 1983 after the NPN convention?
Who is that politician? Who is that politician that aided the military in disqualifying all the major candidates of SDP and NRC?
I say if they can answer it and the answer is negative for MKO Abiola, then the annulment of June 12 is evil. But if the answer is yes and it’s MKO Abiola, the annulment of June 12 was the best thing that happened because you can’t plant mango and reap yam.


In 1979 I was in the UPN as a member of the House of Representatives and there was a provision in the transition decree of 1978/79 which made provision for Electoral College if the presidential election became inconclusive, and it really was inconclusive, because Shagari did not get two-third of the 19 states. So, we were preparing for Electoral College. NPP, GNPP, PRP and UPN we had majority in the National Assembly which constituted the Electoral College.

The late Mallam Aminu Kano of PRP, Alhaji Waziri Ibrahim of GNPP, Nnamdi Azikiwe of NPP and Awolowo of UPN had met and we had all met. But three days to the Electoral College Obasanjo removed the clause on Electoral College; he removed the goal post within the run of play.


The Electoral College was removed after the election when we were getting ready for it and that was why Awolowo had no other option and he had to go to court and the judgment gave rise to the issue of 12 2/3! A human being cannot be half, he is either full or… and that is why Justice Sowemimo said that that judgment cannot be quoted in future.


Abiola and Obasanjo were involved as Egbas to remove that clause. Concord brought the headline “Maroko land: Awolowo where is your sincerity”. We were in Minna when it was published. Look it deflated the old man, it scattered him, in fact, he was no longer himself and he started battling how to explain.

Now NPN went for their national convention in Kano and Umaru Dikko, he is alive, he said the presidential candidate of the NPN is not for sale. MKO Abiola wanted the presidential ticket he didn’t get it and he then came and aligned with the military people who now came in. And IBB came and set up two political parties, Shehu Yar‘adua, Adamu Ciroma and other major contenders in SDP and NRC, overnight the military disqualified.all of them, aided and abetted by MKO Abiola. Because if Yar‘adua were (involved) there was no way MKO would have won. He was not even in contention
until the disqualification of these major contenders. That is why I said that June 12 was a repayment for evil that was done against other people.


But how do you see the June 12 election in
terms of electoral conduct and fairness?

The June 12 election because it was an open ballot and had only two parties which cut across tribal lines was one of the fairest elections ever held in this country. June 12 showed what a good government can do in an election. If IBB and Aikhomu wanted to tamper with the election, they could have tampered with the election, but they didn’t. It was a free and fair election but what I am telling you is that the annulment that came later was the hand of Esau and the voice of Jacob.

What do you mean?

What happened was a repayment for evil. But was that justified on the nation? Yes! What I am saying is that it was God’s own work, it was God’s own work.

For Abiola’s alleged sin of…

All the sins!

But did that justify the derailment of the collective hope of Nigerians?

What is the collective hope of Nigerians?

Democracy
Was the Buhari coup against Shagari justified? Was that the collective will of Nigerians?

That is debatable because many Nigerians
welcomed the coup just as majority of Nigerians were against the annulment of June 12.

It is because you are a pressman. Do you know how many people in my village that were not interested and were happy with the annulment, even though some of us were not happy.

You, were you happy with the annulment?

The annulment served Abiola right, quote me! You cannot be destroying other people and expect to have victory. There is a parable that all those who destroy other people will end up having destruction at the hour of their victory. MKO should not have expected anything less. Tell me, was it justified for Shehu Musa Yar‘adua and Falae in the SDP to be disqualified? What did they do? Was it justified for Adamu Ciroma and co in the
NRC to be disqualified? What did they do? They were all disqualified in both parties so that MKO Abiola who was a friend of the military could emerge as the strongest candidate.

It was no secret that he paraded himself as a friend of the military. That man could not have expected to become president of Nigeria when he had ruined many people. The truth is that God does not come down to do some of these things Himself. He uses human beings as instruments and that is why when a man is looking for elective or appointive position, maybe as LGA chairman, governor, minister or president, he is looking for an aspect of the divinity of God. It is out of that divinity that the man in charge of affairs takes, compassion, service to the people, ability to manage everybody, forgiveness.


Unfortunately, the moment you get that position and you do not utilise it, not generally, just some part of it…if you watch when Christ cured the ten lepers only one came back to say thank you, but he said where are the other nine? And if you read Hipppolytus he said that as soon as Christ asked where are the nine that the leprosy returned to the nine and they died of leprosy.



Source>> https://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/annulment-was-payment-for-abiolas-evil-deeds-sen-owie/

Cypress042:
Would this solve half of Nigerian problem as it stands now

OyeofIkoTuN:
Na igbos them go wan blame ...

No reprisals against fulani whatsoever, no insults, no threats..nothing...

Just public holiday given to them and uka agba siaa....

Something is definitely wrong somewhere...I mean they cannot even dare marry the fulanis ooo yet they think the fulanis send them...

God bless that retarded commenter up there for verifying my claims.

Odewaleadesoye:
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Day_(Nigeria)#:~:text=It%20is%20a%20tradition%20that,the%20Federal%20Republic%20of%20Nigeria.

OyeofIkoTuN:
Na igbos them go wan blame ...

No reprisals against fulani whatsoever, no insults, no threats..nothing...

Just public holiday given to them and uka agba siaa....

Something is definitely wrong somewhere...I mean they cannot even dare marry the fulanis ooo yet they think the fulanis send them...

God bless that retarded commenter up there for verifying my claims.