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Friday, June 15, 2018

Nigeria: President Buhari’s Greek Gifts

By Sunny Awhefeada
June 12th 1993 was a Saturday and it met me in Ughelli.
June is a month of unpredictable rain, but that day was bright; bright and fair.
We trooped out to vote for a new dawn. 
 I was then an impressionable undergraduate of the University of Benin possessed by ideals instilled by youth.
*President Buhari 
The buildup to that day was momentous and exciting. The military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida had embarked on the rigmarole it called transition to civil rule programme.
In the course of that tortuous experience, political parties were formed and disbanded.
Politicians were classified as new breed and old breed and they were banned and unbanned.