{"id":26077,"date":"2020-06-11T17:32:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26077"},"modified":"2020-06-11T17:32:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:32:22","slug":"june-12-tinubu-warns-against-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/june-12-tinubu-warns-against-dictatorship","title":{"rendered":"June 12: Tinubu warns against dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has warned against the return of Nigeria to dictatorial rule.<\/p>\n<p>He gave the warning in his Democracy Day message titled, \u2018June 12: A milestone for democracy\u2019 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The PUNCH reports that the Federal Government had declared a public holiday in commemoration of the democracy day and announced that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), would be addressing the nation on Friday (tomorrow).<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu, who said the election of June 12, 1993 changed Nigeria profoundly, noted that many people laboured, struggled, and sacrificed for democracy in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThey fought not that we would have democracy day but that Nigeria might exist as a democracy every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has warned against the return of Nigeria to dictatorial rule. He gave the warning in his Democracy Day message titled, \u2018June 12: A milestone for democracy\u2019 on Thursday. The PUNCH reports that the Federal Government had declared a public holiday in commemoration of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":12605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[37,97],"class_list":["post-26077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-bola-tinubu","tag-buhari"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>June 12: Tinubu warns against dictatorship - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has warned against the return of Nigeria to dictatorial rule.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/june-12-tinubu-warns-against-dictatorship\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"June 12: Tinubu warns against dictatorship\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has warned against the return of Nigeria to dictatorial rule.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/june-12-tinubu-warns-against-dictatorship\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-11T17:32:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/Bola-Tinubu3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"722\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/june-12-tinubu-warns-against-dictatorship#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/june-12-tinubu-warns-against-dictatorship\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"June 12: Tinubu warns against dictatorship\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-11T17:32:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/june-12-tinubu-warns-against-dictatorship\"},\"wordCount\":123,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/june-12-tinubu-warns-against-dictatorship#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/Bola-Tinubu3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bola Tinubu\",\"Buhari\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/june-12-tinubu-warns-against-dictatorship#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/june-12-tinubu-warns-against-dictatorship\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/june-12-tinubu-warns-against-dictatorship\",\"name\":\"June 12: Tinubu warns against dictatorship - 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