President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, signed into law the bill making June 12 a national public holiday and Democracy Day henceforth.
Senator Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), told correspondents that the President performed the ceremony in his office at the State House, Abuja.
With the new law, June 12 has now replaced May 29 as Democracy Day and national public holiday.
The enactment of the June law does not, however, alter the status of May 29 as Inauguration Day for new administrations but it will not now be a public holiday.
The federal government had made the inauguration of President Buhari for a second term a low key affair to enable it to celebrate June 12 as Democracy Day.
The proclamation of June 12 as the new democracy day is in honour of late Chief MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election.
