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Lagos State Government led by Gov. Babatunde Raji Fashola has toed the path of his south-west states counterpart as the state declared June 12 a Public Holiday. Pressure was mounting on Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, to declare a public for workers in state public service as his counterparts in the southwest region have done. As at the last count, three states: Ogun, Osun and Oyo, have all declared the day a work free day for public servants in commemoration of the annulment of the June 12 1993 Presidential Election described as the freest and fairest in the history of the country. The Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi will also announce the day as a work free day later today. Osun has even gone one step higher above its contemporaries in the region with the Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, preparing a bill for presentation to the state Assembly to make June 12 the official Democracy Day for the state. Last year, Fashola only declared half free working...