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Democracy Day celebration: Buhari signs June 12 Bill into law

Democracy Day celebration: Buhari signs June 12 Bill into law
Democracy Day celebration: Buhari signs June 12 Bill into law

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday at the Presidential Villa signed the Public Holidays Act Amendment Bill into law, as he declares June 12 as public holiday and the new Democracy Day celebration.

Sen. Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate) disclosed this to State House correspondents in Abuja.

Enang said that the Act declared June 12 of every year as public holiday and Democracy Day celebration in Nigeria.

“It amends the Public Holidays Act which now removes May 29 of every year as a public holiday and now makes it June 12, democracy Day celebration and as a public holiday in Nigeria henceforth.

“By this Act, May 29 is no more a Public Holiday,’’ he said.

Buhari had on June 6, 2018, declared June 12 to be the new Democracy Day in commemoration of the democratic election of MKO Abiola on June 12, 1993.

The Federal Government had earlier on Monday declared June 12, as a public holiday, to commemorate the nation’s National Democracy Day.

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