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
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| *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.
