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FULL VIDEO : Bill To Recognize June 12 As Democracy Day Escapes Defeat At NASS

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But for a display of unusual discretion by Speaker Yakubu Dogara of the House of Representatives, a bill seeking to confer legal status on June 12 as Nigeria’s new Democracy Day from May 29 would have been killed at Thursday plenary.

Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had in May this year conferred a posthumous award on Alhaji MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 presidential election upon which the new Democracy Day is being proposed from the known May 29.

 Members were naturally divided on a plea to pass the bill for second reading. Titled “A Bill for an Act to amend the Public Holidays Act, Cap. P40 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to bring the Act in tandem with the current realities and exigencies of the modern times and to declare June 12 as Democracy Day in Nigeria and for Related Matters (HBs.918 and 1529)”. 

Those who spoke against the Bill questioned the rational behind the proposal and the Presidential pronouncement, saying it had political connotations.

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