Nigeria: Mixed Reactions Trail Buhari's Declaration of June 12 Democracy Day

8 June 2018

Mixed reactions Thursday trailed the declaration of June 12 as Democracy Day in the country by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday and his posthumous national honour on Chief MKO Abiola.

Abiola was presumed to have won the 1992 June 12 presidential elections under the Social Democratic Party (SDP) where he ran against Alhaji Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention (NRC).

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