Last May 29 2018 the APC-led federal government marked with fanfare the so-called Democracy Day. May 29, it would be recalled, was the day democracy was restored in Nigeria in 1999 following the debilitating crisis that followed the criminal annulment of the June 12 free and fair presidential election won ‘fair and square’ by the late Bashorun MKO Abiola. President Muhammadu Buhari, as tradition dictated, had addressed the nation in a long speech fraught with detailed appraisal of the past and present challenges of the task of nation- building. Dutifully he had enumerated the mitigated achievements of his 3-year old administration hammering on the works still in progress toward the greatness of our nation.
President Buhari surprised not a few folks last week when he decreed that from next year June 12 would be celebrated in Nigeria as the ‘Democracy Day’ displacing May 29…
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