Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has declared
today a work free day to commemorate the annulment of June
12, 1993 elections.
In a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the
Governor, Mr. Habib Aruna, Ambode said the date marked a
watershed in the annals of transparent, free and fair elections
in the country.
He said June 12, 1993 was the day Nigerians voted in one
voice across ethnic, racial and religious lines, saying it
represented the real Democracy Day when Nigerians said no
to voting along ethnic lines.
He said regrettably, 22 years after the annulment, the Nigerian
nation was still grappling with some of the vices, which the
June 12, 1993 elections sought to confine to the dustbin of
history through undue clinging to ethnic cleavages by some
political gladiators.
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