Wednesday June 11, 2025|

By Idorenyin UMOREN

Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will no longer deliver the traditional nationwide broadcast scheduled for 7 a.m. on June 12, as part of this year’s Democracy Day celebrations.

The announcement was made in a statement on Wednesday, June 11, by Segun Imohiosen, Director of Information and Public Relations at the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, OSGF.

According to the statement, the change is due to President Tinubu’s scheduled appearance before a joint session of the National Assembly on the same day.

“Due to H.E. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, scheduled attendance at the National Assembly Joint Session, the Presidential National Broadcast on June 12 has been cancelled,” the statement reads.

“President Bola Ahmed will deliver his address from the National Assembly. All other plans are in order as announced earlier.”

The president had initially been billed to address the nation at 7 am before attending the joint session later in the day.

The notice, signed by Abdulhakeem Adeoye on behalf of the Director, Information and Public Relations in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, outlined a revised schedule of events.

It read, “The Inter-Ministerial Committee wishes to announce the following developments on the 26th Democracy Day celebration:

“1. Presidential National Broadcast on June 12, 2025, at 7 a.m.

2. No Democracy Day Parade.

3. H.E. President Bola Tinubu is to attend the National Assembly Joint Session at 12 noon.

4. Public Lecture on Democracy Day Celebration at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja. Time: 4 pm.

“Theme: Consolidating on the Gains of Nigeria’s Democracy: Necessity of Enduring Reforms.”


The inter-ministerial committee on Democracy Day had earlier released the list of activities lined up for the celebration in a statement issued by Abdulhakeem Adeoye on behalf of the director of information and public relations.

Adeoye had in the statement noted that there would be no parade this year to mark the day.

He said a public lecture would be held at 4 pm at the State House conference centre in Abuja.

The theme of the lecture is “Consolidating on the Gains of Nigeria’s Democracy: Necessity of Enduring Reforms”.

This year’s event marks 26 years of uninterrupted democratic governance since the end of military rule in 1999.

Democracy Day was previously marked on May 29, the swearing-in date for elected officials, until former President Muhammadu Buhari moved it to June 12 in 2018.

The shift was in honour of the annulled 1993 presidential election won by the late MKO Abiola, widely regarded as Nigeria’s freest and fairest poll.