Ganduje gave the warning in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Abba Anwar, on Saturday in Kano.
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Buhari declared his commitment in a nationwide broadcast on Saturday in Abuja to mark this year’s Democracy Day.
The protesters had earlier blocked the Gudu Junction to protest the state of the nation.
”Following the recent attacks on some communities by some recalcitrant heartless hoodlums, leading to the killings of several innocent citizens of our dear state, Matawalle has directed the cancellation of the June 12, Democracy Day celebration”, Dosara said in a statement in Gusau, on Saturday.
The Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro, gave the assurance in a statement by the command’s public relations officer, Bala Elkana, on Friday in Owerri.
The state’s police public relations officer, SP Yemisi Opalola, in a statement in Osogbo on Friday, said that the state Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, had put adequate security templates in place across the state.
Sanwo-Olu made the call on Friday during his Democracy Day message to Lagosians.
In her Democracy Day message, Mrs Tinubu said: “I congratulate the government and citizens of Nigeria at home and in the diaspora on the commemoration of the commencement of the fourth republic, and the longest chain of civilian rule our country, Nigeria, has witnessed.
In a statement by its secretary-general, Chief Willy Ezugwu, to commemorate Democracy Day, CNPP noted that the APC-led government has carried on “theoretically” in the last six years as pro-June 12, but has, in practice, exhibited anti-democratic tendencies, either by oversight or consciously.
In his Democracy Day message, Saraki noted that democracy is not the absence of military rule or the routine conduct of elections, but that the real end product of democracy should be good governance – which he said Nigeria’s democracy has not given birth to.
It said people of the South West would neither support, tolerate or join such protests, as the June 12 Democracy Day should be for celebration and not protests.
Bello made the appeal when the leadership of the association paid him a consultation visit on Thursday in Abuja, urging them to respect the recognition of the Democracy Day by President Muhammadu Buhari.
This is as the government warned against agitations capable of threatening the peace of the country.
On June 12, President Buhari addressed the nation. Other political leaders issued statements. But there was no celebration as we knew it. The entire country had been overtaken by the COVID-19 pandemic, with its social distancing, physical distancing, new normal regimental orders. The deadly disease overshadowed everything. As at May 29, 2020, Nigeria had recorded 8, 915 confirmed cases of Corona Virus with 259 deaths.
Sanwo-Olu made this known in his Democracy Day speech, tagged: “Great Leap Towards A Greater Lagos.”
Provision of the necessary digital impetus to the actualization of the economic diversification of Mr. President, tailored towards a free market economy which is not tied to oil and gas is on NCC’s priority list. This push is in tandem with the administration’s “Next Level Agenda” as it enters its fifth year in this long democratic race.
Being the full text of President Muhammadu Buhari’s broadcast to Nigerians on Nigeria’s Democracy Day
The President, who made this known during a broadcast to mark this year’s Democracy Day in Abuja on Friday, said the review had become imperative in view of the nation’s dwindling resources and rising cost of governance.
One of the things that President Muhammadu Buhari would be fondly remembered for, after his tour of duty, would be the recognition of the significance of June 12 and its rightful placement in our national diary.
The Diaspora chapter made this known to the press via an electronic email signed by the Publicity Secretary of the party, Hon. Jacob Ogunseye.