Nigeria, June 17 -- Candidly, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has done very well with June 12 by taking the narrative from where President Muhammadu Buahri left off, and choosing to give that date, the history and the symbolism of it, form, style and substance. President Buhari, despite the somnambulism of his administration, it would be recalled, suddenly woke up and decided that June 12, not 29 May, should be the appropriate date, the remembrance date of Nigeria's democratic transition from military rule to civilian rule in 1999. It was a wise, even if a political decision, one of those few things for which Buhari's sleepy administration deserves to be remembered for.

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