Just in: Senate urges INEC to announce June 12, 1993 election results

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The Senate has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to announce the results of the June 12, 1993 presidential election.

The lawmakers made this demand on Thursday during plenary at the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

The demand comes a day after President Muhammadu Buhari officially declared June 12 to substitute May 29 as Democracy Day, in honour of late MKO Abiola – the presumed winner of the election.

President Buhari had stated that June 12 was more symbolic than May 29 and also conferred a posthumous GCFR title on the late business mogul and politician.