President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation via a live broadcast by 7:00 am on Sunday, it has emerged.
Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information, announced the live broadcast during a briefing at a radio house in Abuja on Thursday, June 9.
The Minister of Information while speaking said the President’s broadcast will be centred on the celebration of Democracy Day on June 12th, 2022.
He then detailed activities to mark this year’s Democracy Day celebration.
The minister also said that after the annulment of the 1993 elections; which brought Nigeria to the brink, the country was also ruled by the military for another six years.
He said that with the return to democracy in 1999 the country has not witnessed any military incursion.
Mohammed said;
Between 1999 and 2008 we celebrated Democracy Day on May 29; and that was the day the military handed over power after a lot of disruption.
No government before now had the courage to declare June 12 as Democracy Day. It took the courage of President Muhammadu Buhari to do so.
We are also celebrating the day to pay tribute to MKO Abiola, the winner of the 1993 presidential election; and also to other Nigerians who lost their lives during the struggle.
President Buhari in June 2018, directed that Nigeria’s Democracy Day, marked every May 29, be shifted to June 12 to honour MKO Abiola, winner of the 1993 presidential election.
In compliance with the presidential directive, this year’s celebration will mark the fourth time that the Day will be marked on June 12.
