Speaker of the House of Representatives Hon Yakubu Dogara has observed that Nigeria’s democracy was still fragile, despite the country’s return to civil rule 19 years ago.
The Speaker also warned political office holders too desist from actions that could truncate the nation’s nascent democracy.
Dogara made these knonw in Abuja at the 2018 Democracy Day Lecture.
According to a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Turaki Hassan, the Speaker explained that Nigerians have every reason to celebrate almost two decades of civilian rule, as he said the beauty of democracy gives hope for a better future to the people.
He however cautioned that democracies world over hardly die in the hands of people with guns but in the hands of civilians leaders who have dubious allegiance to democratic norms and values.
According to the Speaker, elections have sometimes produced enemies of democracy and urged the citizens to be eternally…
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