Monday poured encomiums on Moshood Abiola , the winner of the annnuled 12 June 1993 presidential election.
Mr Tinubu's predecessor, ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, had declared 12 June as Nigeria's Democracy Day and post-humously awarded Nigeria's highest honour, GCFR, to Mr Abiola.Read the full speech by Mr Tinubu below. 5. Just like the anti-colonial movement, the pro-June 12 vanguard demonstrated, once again, the enduring validity of the 19th century historian, Arnold Toynbee's eternal postulation, that civilization and societies experience progress as they are forced to respond to challenges posed by the environment.
9. The point is that we must never take this democracy for granted. We must forever jealously guard and protect it like a precious jewel. For, a people can never truly appreciate the freedoms and rights democracy guarantees them until they lose it.
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