Ambode declares June 12 a work free day for Gov workers

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has declared today a work free day to commemorate the annulment of June 12, 1993 elections. In a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Habib Aruna, Ambode 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. He said regrettably, 22 years after the annulment, the Nigerian nation was 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. The governor implored residents to spend the day in remembrance of the martyrs of the June 12 elections.