All Nigeria’s former Presidents including Olusegun Obasanjo, failed to attend the June 12 Democracy Day celebration which held on Wednesday at the Eagle Square, Abuja.
The former presidents and Heads of state were scheduled to be seated at the venue of the event at 9:35 a.m., but they were conspicuously absent at about 10:06 when Jubril (President Muhammadu Buhari) arrived the venue.
The event is the first since Jubril (Buhari) approved June 12 as Democracy Day in honour MKO Abiola, the presumed winner of the 1993 presidential election.
It would be recalled that May 29 had been observed as democracy day since the return of democracy in the country in 1999.
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Jubril (Buhari) took his oath of office for his second term on May 29, but major events of the programme were moved to June 12.
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo as well as Senate President Ahmad Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of the House of Representatives are in attendance.
While Yakubu Gowon, former head of state, attended the May 29 event, he was conspicuously absent at the one of June 12.