The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday visited the school for special needs in Ilorin, the capital city, to celebrate Democracy Day with the children.

Accompanied by school officials, the Governor inspected some facilities in the school, including classrooms recently fixed by the administration and those freshly affected by rainstorms.

He later interacted with the school head, Abdulganiyu Olododo on pending issues in the school that once hosted the government’s budget review sessions — a gesture AbdulRazaq said was meant to refocus attention on the plights of the students and other underserved communities in the state.

AbdulRazaq then took photographs with the elated children, their tutors and cheered them, in a symbolic gesture of his commitment to always support the children to attain their full potentials.

Democracy Day is June 12, a national public holiday in Nigeria.

On June 6, 2018, eight days after May 29, 2018, had been celebrated as Democracy Day, the President Buhari-led Federal Government of Nigeria declared June 12 to be the new Democracy Day

It commemorates the democratic election of Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola also known as M. K. O. Abiola on June 12, 1993, in what has been adjudged to be Nigeria’s freest and fairest election.