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Senate approves June 12 as Democracy Day, concurs with Reps on 5 other bills

16th May 2019
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The Senate on Thursday concurred with the Public Holiday Act(Amendment) Bill, passed by the House of Representatives, which approved June 12 as Democracy Day.

This followed presentation of conference report by Leader of the Senate, Sen. Ahmad Lawan at plenary on Thursday.

In his remarks, the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki put the conference report to a voice vote and it was adopted by the lawmakers.

In the bill, which was passed by the house of representatives on Nov. 26, 2018, the current democracy date, which is May 29, was deleted and replaced with June 12.

On June 12,1993, presidential election was held and adjudged to be the freest in the country’s history.

However, the results were annulled by the then Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.

In the process, one of the presidential candidate who was reported to have polled most votes, Mr Moshood Abiola lost his life.

NAN reports that 25 years after, President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018, announced that the nation’s Democracy Day would hold on June 12 of every year as against current arrangement where the ceremony holds on May 29.

The national assembly however needed to amend the public holiday act to give the directive a legal backing, to make it binding.

Meanwhile, the senate concurred with five other house of representatives bills.

They are:Federal Capital Territory Area Councils Service Commission, Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency, Projects Development Agency Enugu PRODA, Data Protection Bill.

(NAN)

Ajiri Daniels

Ajiri Daniels

Sun News Online Team

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