The gesture is to honour the acclaimed winner of the 1993 Presidential elections
The Osun State Government has declared June 12 as a public holiday to mark the annulled presidential election presumably won by late business mogul, Moshood Abiola.
Sunday Akere, the state’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy said this in a statement in Osogbo yesterday.
He said that the state had decided to recognised June 12 as its Democracy Day.
Akere said that the state would continue to recognise June 12 as its Democracy Day and Abiola as the winner of that election.
He said that a lecture entitled: “Regionalisms and True Federalism as Panacea for Solving Nigeria’s Problem of Underdevelopment” would be delivered by Chief Ayo Opadokun on that day.
The commissioner noted that the day represented so many things to the present administration in the state.
The Committee for Democracy and Rights of the People (CDRP) would also organise another lecture to be delivered by the Edo Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General, Dr Osagie Obayuwana.
Abiola was acclaimed to have won the June 12, 1993 Presidential elections described as the freest and fairest elections in Nigeria’s history.
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