PRESIDENT BUHARI MARKS ONE YEAR IN OFFICE

Today is exactly one year since the former head
of state, retired General Muhammadu Buhari,
was elected and he became President
Muhammadu Buhari, consequently.
It was the election that saw a candidate from an
opposition party, the All Progressives Congress
(APC), defeating a sitting president from a
powerful political party, the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), which prided itself as being the
largest political association on the African
continent.
Similarly, the election saw a different political
party getting the majority seats in the National
Assembly, an accomplishment that was not
recorded since the return of democracy in 1999
in the country. The same feat was recorded in
gubernatorial and house of assembly elections in
many PDP states in the South-west and North-
central zones.
Buhari’s election was therefore seen as
momentous; a new order and a new dawn in
Nigeria. He got a large chunk of his votes from
the Nigerian masses, who strongly felt detached
and abandoned by the previous government of
the PDP.