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.
– Also On this day in 2005, a former inspector general of police Tafa Balogun was arrested for money laundering.