Expdonaloaded News; Declare June 12 Democracy Day, Ambode, Oyebode, Falana, others urge FG

Eminent Nigerians have called on the Federal Gov­ernment to de­clare June 12 Democracy Day, in place of May 29 being celebrated to im­mortalise the late Chief MKO Abiola

The eminent Nigerians who made their positions known at the 22nd anniver­sary of June 12, 1993 Presi­dential Election yesterday in Lagos , unanimously said the declaration was the best national recognition the struggle deserves.
Among the people who made the call were the La­gos State governor, Akin­wunmi Ambode; Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence, Akin Oye­bode; Human Rights Law­yer, Femi Falana and Dele Alake..
Speaking at the Lagos Television (LTV) Blue Roof ground, venue of the occasion, Ambode said the June 12 date would for­ever remain unique on the calendar, describing it as a date that has assumed a life of its own.
He said it was a day where the people of Nige­ria trooped out to the poll­ing booth to reclaim their rights and privileges as a people.
Prof. Oyebode, who was the chairman on the occasion, said the day was a celebration of die-hard spirit of Abiola, his wife Kudirat and hundreds of Nigerians who were killed in protest of annulment of the freest and fairest elec­tion ever held in the coun­try.
Oyebode said it was sad and almost inconceiv­able that the politicians and the military decided to make May 29 Democ­racy Day.
He added that it was unfortunate that the June 12 watershed has been eth­nicised, with some states in the South west already marking it as holiday, while others were still unboth­ered.
He said it was also amaz­ing that Nigeria named monuments in Abuja and stadium in Kano after mili­tary junta Sanni Abacha, while Abiola has not been immortalised as so de­served.
Falana toed the line of earlier speakers, saying the onus was on Federal Gov­ernment to immortalise the true heroes of Nigeria’s de­mocracy.
He said: “This day (June 12) must be a national day and be declared a national holiday.”
He appealed to Lagos State to further champion the cause of deepening de­mocracy, by ensuring that living heroes and heroines of June 12 struggle are not forgotten.
Alake, who was the Editor of defunct Concord Newspapers and a close confidant to late Abiola, in his lecture posited that June 12 was a day Nige­rians were re-birthed as a true nation-state, adding that the annulment was the biggest damage ever done to the country.
He saluted the cour­age of June 12 activists like Frank Kokori, Ayo Opadokun, Alfred Ilenre, Dr. Amos Akingba, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, Odion Akhaine and Segun Mayegun among others who were also present at the event.

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