Tomorrow marks the twenty-third anniversary of the historic presidential election held on Saturday, June twelve, nineteen ninety-three, adjudged to be the freest and fairest presidential election won by Late Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola a Southerner.

In Lagos the state government has declared the day public holiday to remember MKO, who won the botched Presidential election.

The government in collaboration with June 12 Coalition of Democratic Formations is organising a lecture to commemorate the twenty-third anniversary of the botched Presidential election.

This year’s theme is titled “Democracy and Inclusiveness: Basis for Good Governance” the policy thrust Akinwunmi Ambode further emphasises the central role of democratic principle in entrenching good governance.

According to the Special Adviser on Civic Engagement, Kehinde Joseph, the Anniversary, is an annual event organised to celebrate the annulled elections of June twelve which was won by Late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola as well as those that struggled and sacrificed their lives for the democracy which we all enjoyed today.

The event is scheduled to hold tomorrow at the Blue Roof LTV 8, Agidingbi Ikeja by 10:00am.

Guests expected to grace the Occasion include His Excellency, Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, Chairman of the Occasion is Ayo Opadokun, a renowned Activist while the Father of the Day is the National Leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

In Osun, Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has described June twelve, as the most suitable and proper day to mark democracy day in Nigeria.

Aregbesola, in his address marking the anniversary of June twelve, said it was the date Nigerians freely expressed their choice on whom to be their leader and a day of unequivocal affirmation of the unity of the country by Nigerians across all divides.

According to him, Nigerians and lovers of democracy would remain committed to June twelve as a political watershed in the annals of the nation, saying May twenty-nine only symbolises the day the military handed over the affairs of the country to a democratically elected government.

He said June twelve was a day Nigerians united to vote the acclaimed winner of the presidential election, late MKO Abiola without recourse to religion, ethnicity or ideology, saying the unity with which the multi-ethnic groups spoke and acted was what is being celebrated till today.

Aregbesola however noted that since the annulment of that election twenty-three years ago, Nigerians waited another sixteen years for a leader that would take them to the Promised Land until the emergence of President Muhammad Buhari in twenty-fifteen.

He said the present government would never drop their commitment to June twelve, as Nigerians, in their heterogeneity, on June twelve, voted for Chief Abiola in a pattern that defied ethnicity, religion, ideology and locality.

The Governor said as they celebrate June twelve as Democracy Day, lets remember the struggles and sacrifices of the heroes and heroines by continuing to be good citizens, by working hard and paying taxes.

He then declared tomorrow as public holiday, in commemoration of this watershed date and to honour the memory, of Chief Abiola, his wife, Kudirat Abiola, who was cowardly murdered by agents of the evil regime and other Nigerians who suffered for standing for what they believed to be right.