By Abiola Olawale
The National Assembly (NASS) has officially adopted June 12 as the annual day for Nigeria’s President to deliver a national address to a joint session of the legislature.
The decision was finalized during a special Democracy Day sitting on June 12, 2025,
Presiding over the joint session, the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, announced the formalisation of the date following a motion raised by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas.
“Mr President, in the eloquent speech by the Honourable Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, he raised a motion that June 12 should be formalised as the Presidential Day of Address to the joint session of the National Assembly. I hereby put the question,” Akpabio said, drawing responses from the floor.
“Those in support of the motion, moved and seconded, say ‘Aye’; those against say ‘Nay’. The ‘Ayes’ have it,” he ruled.
Addressing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu directly, Akpabio added, “Mr President, that is the motion of the National Assembly, done in your presence. Mr Speaker, the statistics do not lie—we are quite happy with the data you rolled out and the House that we all run”.
