Today May 29 marks twenty one years of return to democratic rule in the country.

You will recall that after several years of military rule, former Head of state, OLUSEGUN OBASANJO was elected President on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in 1999 and ruled for two terms of eight years till 2007.

Late UMARU MUSA YA’ADUA took over from OBASANJO but could not complete his first tenure when he died on May 5, 2010 paving the way for GOODLUCK JONATHAN his vice to assume the reign of power.

He served as President from 2010 to 2015.

But JONATHAN lost the 2015 presidential election to former military Head of State, MUHAMMADU BUHARI.

President BUHARI, who was first elected in 2015 on the mantra of diversifying the economy, fighting corruption and restoring security in the country, got a second term in office in 2019.

The Presidency, yesterday, released a 60-page compendium to mark President BUHARI’s fifth anniversary.

A statement by his Media aide, FEMI ADESINA, said after five years, the three-prong areas the BUHARI’s administration based its interventionist agenda, security, reviving the economy (with particular emphasis on job creation, especially for youths) and the fight against corruption, cannot be compared to what they were in 2015, prior to his presidency.

The nation’s Democracy Day has been moved from May 29 to June 12 in recognition of the struggle and the supreme price paid for return of civil rule in Nigeria by late MKO ABIOLA winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 Presidential election.