He knows also, that by declaring June 12, the date Bashorun Abiola won Nigeria’s freest and fairest presidential election, as Democracy Day, as well as a public holiday with effect from 2019, he more than made their day. In an opinion essay in The Guardian newspaper in 1994, an Igbo businessman and latter-day politician insisted that the June 12 impasse was the concern of only the Yoruba. President Buhari has not even done all that is needed to be done. President Buhari has kept one part of his resolve by conferring the GCFR honour on Bashorun Abiola, even if it came posthumously. But he, or whoever is sworn in as President of Nigeria, on May 29, 2019, must declare June 12, 2019 Democracy Day as a public holiday.

Source: Punch June 12, 2018 23:15 UTC