Monday, February 4 was just supposed to be the flag-off of a year-long programme to mark the amalgamation of the Southern and Northern protectorates into Nigeria by Great Britain on January 1, 1914, but it turned out to what may well be the beginning of a national rebirth in Nigeria.
Most of the guests at the banquet hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, and other Nigerians that followed the live telecast of the event on television were enthralled when President Goodluck Jonathan invited Muhammadu Buhari, a former military head of state and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, to light the centenary torch with him. In an air of camaraderie not seen between the duo since he became president, Jonathan and Buhari held hands and chatted back to their seats after setting light to the torch. For most people, that was one of the best outcomes of the flag-off; it signified a new national convergence of the divergent peoples and cultures that make up Nigeria.
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