After persistent demands for the amendment of the Constitution in 1991 - with many paying a heavy price in detention without trials, torture and harassment - the ruling party Kanu eventually caved in and allowed for competitive politics through the repeal of Section 2A.
I vividly remember the clamour of the late 1980s for multiparty democracy. I was a college student then and like many youth of my time, we were full of idealism. ‘Canaan’ was real and we felt we could touch it.