In a surprise and unexpected move last Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari declared June 12, the day in 1993 that a presidential election was won by billionaire politician, Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola but was inexplicably annulled by the Military dictatorship of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, as Nigeria's Democracy Day.
The move was a surprise because Buhari, except for a few moment of solidarity with the June 12 struggle in its early days before he was appointed by the beneficiary regime of General Sanni Abacha to head the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), never showed any pretence of pro-democracy activism, as Nigerians know it.
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