President Muhammadu buhari has addressed the nation on this fateful May 29 Democracy Day which marks 17 years of Nigeria’s return to civilian rule and he did his best in the speech, which started at the ‘usual’ 7am and lasted for almost thirty minutes, to explain to Nigerians what his administration has been able to do in the last one year. While he did clear the air on certain issues concerning his government’s economic and political decisions within this period, he however left some critical issues unaddressed. Some of the critical points in his speech include: State of the Nation The president started his speech with the declaration that his administration met a nation in total collapse with decaying infrastructure, high corruption rate and falling oil prices while lack of savings for the future did not help matters. “In short, we inherited a state near collapse,” the president declared. He noted that what his government is...