By Samuel Ogidan
Former National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has said that democracy had brought value to the country and a measure of acceptability and respect in the international community.
Tukur, in a statement yesterday noted that Nigeria has come a long way in it 15 years unbroken democracy, this is even as he hailed President Goodluck Jonathan and Nigerians for keeping faith with “our nascent democracy.”
He said: “I send my felicitations to Mr. President and Nigerians, as an elder statesman of Nigeria, former governor of old Gongola state, founding member of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), member Board of Trustees of the party and immediate past national chairman of the PDP.
“It is a thing of joy that we all have joined hands to sustain our democratic experience for these 15 years. I am happy that democratic republicanism has come to stay in Nigeria.
“I am proud, as an elder statesman to have played a major role for the enthronement of our present democratic structure by struggling alongside other patriotic Nigerians to ease the military out of governance even at the risk of our dear lives.”