“I join millions of our compatriots, especially Mr President, to celebrate our Democracy Day. My profound respects go to all the heroes and heroines of our democracy, dead or alive, who paid huge sacrifices for their democratic beliefs,” the Governor said in a statement commemorating the 2020 Democracy Day.
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According to his spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, the former governor, who spoke on today’s democracy day celebration, said it was painful that “legacy of free, fair and transparent elections bequeathed to Nigeria by the PDP government has been destroyed, with elections in the country now being held at gun point”.
Unfortunately, this year’s democracy day is being celebrated amidst unprecedented degeneration of security situation in the country.
The Peoples Democratic Party has assured Nigerians that it would continue to protect and defend democracy and its institutions.
Lawan stated this in a speech delivered at the 17th Edition of the Daily Trust Dialogue, with the theme: “Twenty Years of Democracy in Nigeria: Strengths, Weaknesses and Opportunities,” which held in Abuja.
The member representing Oboku/Oriade Federal Constituency of Osun State, Hon. Wole Oke, on Sunday assured that the 9th National Assembly would do everything humanly possible to deliver the much needed dividends of democracy to Nigerians in the new year.
The President, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, Mukhtar Sirajo, on Thursday, stressed the need for building strong institutions towards strengthening and improving the nation’s democracy.
Buhari stated this in Abuja while declaring open the 25th Nigeria Economic Summit, with the theme: “Nigeria 2050: Shifting Gears.”
The IPOB exists on the extremist edge of such political derangement, possessed by the “actualization” of the dead and buried corpse of Biafran “nationality”, as its crazy cause.
President Muhammadu Buhari says “cultivating neighbourliness’’ on individual and national level will deepen the values of democracy and speed up development process by saving the cost of delays and repairs.
The Nigeria Labour Congress has urged the Federal Government to deepen democractic tenets that would end current poverty and hardship in the country.
That equity is done is justice itself to the man who seeks equity. Which is why the Isoko people have been clamouring for equity and justice in the distribution of ministerial positions from Delta State.
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has congratulated Nigerians on the country’s attainment of 20 years of uninterrupted democracy and urged the people to use democracy to institutionalize peace and genuine development.
The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi, has thanked God for sustaining democracy for 20 years in Nigeria.
A tale was told about a once very powerful Principal Officer of the National Assembly, who led a delegation of a major political party from Abuja to conduct a senatorial primary in Anambra State in 2014. This supposed democrat with many years of legislative experience, who ought to show example of how to promote democracy, especially internal democracy in a party, which should be an important democratic platform, allegedly landed with his team at the Asaba Airport, in neighbouring Delta State.
Former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has faulted the kind of democracy practised in Nigeria as a system that cannot bring about the best in all spheres of our national interest.
The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 elections, Atiku Abubakar has described the judiciary as truly the defender of Nigeria’s democracy.
The 2019 presidential elections may have come and gone, but the effects will be felt in Nigeria for a very long time. Apart from the 2007 general elections, the 2019 presidential elections is presently regarded as the worst in the nation’s history by a lot of Nigerians. The question on the mind of majority of Nigerians is, how can an electoral process that witnessed the highest amount of voter registration with over 80 million registered voters, voters card collection with nearly 73 million eligible voters and an election that was predicted to be the biggest in Africa’s history witness the lowest turnout in our nation’s electoral history according to data from the Independent National Electoral Commission. Turnout was just above 35 per cent of eligible voters.
President Muhammadu Buhari has appreciated former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his continuous support for Nigeria and the growth of her democracy.
“Today, Democracy around the world faces its biggest crisis in decades, its foundations undermined by invective from on high and toxins from below, by new technologies that power ancient impulses, by a poisonous cocktail of strongmen and weakening institutions.