According to Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, a human rights attorney and senior advocate for Nigeria, the President’s speech on Democracy Day left him completely unimpressed. Recall that on Wednesday, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Nigeria’s democracy, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the nation’s most important citizen, gave a speech to the people of Nigeria.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
In his Democracy Day address, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had said; “In this spirit, we have negotiated in good faith and with open arms with organized labour on a new national minimum wage. We shall soon send an executive bill to the National Assembly to enshrine what has been agreed upon as part of our law for the next five years or less.”
Vanguard News reported that Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa stated in an exclusive interview on Channels Television; “I am sorry, I am not impressed in anyway at all by the speech of the President. In the sense that it is just rehearsing history.”
He added; “For me, looking at the past one year and indeed, our collective history from the time we started agitating for democracy, things have gotten worse, nothing has changed at all,”
He stated further; “I expect that on a day like this, all Nigerians who are being held in custody wrongfully should be released”
The recent statement by the Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Human Rights Lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, which was shared by Vanguard News on its verified Facebook page has generated a lot of reactions from many Nigerians on the social media platform.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
