Five years ago, June 12 was declared as democracy day in Nigeria. The shift from May 29, to June 12, was to symbolise the assault on Nigeria’s democracy in 1993 when the presidential election adjudged to have been won by M.K.O Abiola, was annulled. The annulment of that election by the military
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