President Bola Tinubu says with people’s individual difference and variety of experience, perspectives and viewpoints can never be the same.
In his national broadcast on the 25th anniversary of unbroken democracy in Nigeria on June 12, Democracy Day, the president said it is with this posture that democracy can thrive.
“What democracy demands is that we do not resolve differences through force and repression. But we make allowance for the legitimacy of views that differ from our own,” the President appealed to Nigerians.
He said no matter how complicated democracy may be, it is the best form of governance in the long run.
“We must also be aware that there are those among us who will try to exploit current challenges to undermine, if not destroy, this democracy for which so much has already been given.
“These people do this not to make things better but to subject all other people and things to their control and dominance until the point that, if you are not counted among their elite, then your life will be small and no longer owned by you,” he said.
