Governor Akinwunmi Ambode Declares June 12 As Public Holiday In Lagos

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on
Thursday declared Friday, June 12 as a Work Free
Day in commemoration of the annulment of the June
12, 1993 elections which was presumed to have been
won by late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola.
In a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to
the governor, Habib Aruna, the governor said the
date marked a watershed in the annals of
transparent, free and fair elections in the country.

He said June 12, 1993 was the day Nigerians voted in
one voice across ethnic, racial and religious lines,
saying it represented the real democracy day when
Nigerians said no to voting along ethnic lines.
The governor said regrettably, 22 years after the
annulment, the Nigerian nation is still grappling with
some of the vices which the June 12, 1993 elections
sought to confine to the dustbin of history through
undue clinging to ethnic cleavages by some political
gladiators.
He urged residents to spend the day in sober
reflection and in remembrance of the martyrs of the
June 12 elections struggle in prayers for laying the
foundation of the democracy which the nation is
now enjoying.