President Tinubu Democracy Day Full Speech

Here is the full text of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Democracy Day speech:

TEXT OF PRESIDENT BOLA TINUBU’S NATIONAL BROADCAST ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF UNBROKEN DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA, DEMOCRACY DAY 12TH JUNE 2024 ABUJA

My fellow Nigerians, let me begin by congratulating all of us for witnessing the celebration of another Democracy Day today, the 12th day of June 2024. This year also marks our nation’s 25 years of uninterrupted democratic rule.

In a national broadcast to mark this year’s Democracy Day and the 25th year of uninterrupted democratic rule in the country, Tinubu recalled how he and other like-minds risked their lives for democracy to birth.

Assuring that the issue of new minimum wage for Nigerian workers would be resolved soon, the president disclosed that his government was already preparing an executive bill on the matter to be forwarded to the National Assembly for passage.

Tinubu also paid glowing tributes to heroes and heroines of June 12 struggle as well as those who died in the course of the revalidation of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential poll.

The president also celebrated the media for being partners in the pro-democracy struggle against the military junta in the wake of the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential poll.

In this struggle, the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola, the most significant symbol of our democratic struggle, his wife, Kudirat, General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and Pa Alfred Rewane, among others sacrificed their very lives.

“The power of an idea, the power of the people proved more potent than all the guns and munitions, and the threats of the strongmen.

“The nation exited the yoke of military rule in 1999 to become the most populous democracy on African soil, the beacon of democratic self-determination for the black race and one of the largest democracies in the world.

“Where other forms of government impose against the will of the people, democracy aims to make leaders sufficiently humble that they conduct themselves as servants of the common good, not as viceroys of the narrow interests of the mighty.

“I say to you here and now that as we celebrate the enshrinement of our political democracy, let us commit ourselves to the fulfilment of its equally important counterpart, the realisation of our economic democracy.