Muhammadu Buhari’s centenary is likely to be mixed in Nigeria. They will be remembered for promoting integrity in the country and leading to leadership which were deeply defective.
Sheriff Ansu, a digital content manufacturer, said, “From his military era to his two-function citizen, he leaves behind a legacy and painful heritage. We should reflect on justice and accountability.”
Human rights activists say that they never let their autocratic tendency go. “Buhari was an ethnic Bigot. He had a contempt for RUL of law; he disregarded the court orders. He was engaged in the disappearance of critics,” Omoyle Sovor told the worker located in the Nigerian capital Abuja, DW told.
“In 2015, he presided over the mass murder of more than 300 Shias in Zaria. Opposing the cruelty of the young Nigerians, he was closed by the soldiers directed by Buhari in October 2020. It is unforgettable and incompetent,” Sovor said.
The protests were part of a movement, which was dubbed #ndendsars in the name of a particular police unit, named for years of racketering, torture and murder. The Buhari government violently crushed the movement.
From military ruler to ‘Baba Go Slow’
Buhari defeated Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 elections, which was judged till date in Nigeria’s most fair general election. Do not like to be a former military general in the country’s hull. Many, nevertheless, was expected to tighten the armed groups.
Yusuf Dantal, president of Nigeria’s Inter Party Advisory Council, said, “He is a person who believed in making Nigeria the best place to live on earth. He tried his best to bring Nigerians together as a military ruler and a democracy,” “It does not mean that he was right. He had his flaws like any more human.”
A media entrepreneur told DW, “What comes to light is that his chairmanship triggered national conversations around leadership accountability, involvement of youth and restructuring the system for democracy.”
Many had expected Buhari’s tenure as a democratically elected leader, characterized by the discipline, order and stability of a military veteran. Buhari disconnected Himlfe as a “converted democrat”, when she swapped her military uniform for shroud and prayer cap. “I belong to everyone and I belong to someone,” I avoid them constantly for both supporters and critics.
“It took him six months to name his minister in 2015 and the oil-pirtering economy was affected by low raw price prices.
Corruption and misunderstanding on economy
Buhari followed a dead body for his brand of politics of anti -corruption punishment. But his rift on corruption falls into criticism and high-profile failed to believe.
He maintained his popularity in the country’s poor and large -scale Muslim north, from where and where voters inspired him for his second term in 2019,
It comes despite a word that is surrounded by Nigeria’s first recession in a generation, attacking oil areas by militants. Buhari was seen repeatedly ignoring the advice from the International Monetary Fund to devaluate Nigerian Naira. Instead he placed the currency artificially high – the same unsuccessful approach he used as a military ruler in the 1980s.
In 2022, oil production – Nigeria’s biggest export so far – Niger delta fell to its lowest level in more than two decades due to Niger Delta.
Fril Health often intervened in Buhari’s tenure as President. Hey frequent visits to hospitals abroad for an unknown disease. In 2017, rumors of his death broadcast after the disappearance of the public for 51 days, allegedly undergoing treatment.
Buhari’s death in a London health facility reminded many Nigerian citizens of his medical trips and triggered these controversies.
Four ATEMPTS on President’s post
Buhari, Ethnic Phulani and devotees were born on December 17, 1942 in the northern Katsina state of Nigeria. He joined the army at the age of 20 and quickly got up via ranks, formed as an officer and a military governor of the Northern East.
In 1976, Olusagun Obasanjo, the then military ruler of the country, appointed Buhari as the Minister of Petroleum and Energy. The post placed him as in charge of the newly established National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Despite his new important role in one of Africa’s largest oil producers, Buhari returned to the army as a commander, re -included his supreme military council, and led several units.
In 2003, he ran as a presidential candidate for the People’s People’s People’s Party. His defeat was followed by similar unsuccessful dialects in 2007 and 2011. In 2015, Buhari finally won the President’s post with 54% of the vote. Hey promised to fight largely corruption and defeat Islamist terrorist Boko Haram Military.
Manji Cheto, Vice President of Teno Intelligence Time, Manji Cheto, Manji Cheto, Manji Cheto, Manji Cheto, Teno Intelligence Time Vice President Manji Cheto, “It is not believed that the symbolic thing about his victory is that he is considered one of the most unstable leaders of Nigeria.
Buhari’s role during military rule
On December 31, 1983, President Shehu Shagari was elected by WHE General Ibrahim Babangida and other military members, Buhari was appointed under the chairmanship of Nigeria’s Supreme Military Council.
He went to suspend the Constitution, banned all political parties, and climbed on corruption – at that time his threat was good to be corrupt “without jurisdiction of judicial proceedings”. Under Buhari’s “War on War”, about 500 people were put in jail for corruption and wasting taxpayers’ money. Folk servants were allegedly designed for Genuflect to come late to work.
Buhari killed people, who were intolerant of criticism and banned press independence. Nobellalaureate Wole said that Nigerians felt that they were “living under iron-fisted, rigorous governance and governance that spreads fear.” The irony is that Buhari’s first reign ended as it began: in August 1985 in a coup by General Babangida.
In the race for 2022-2023, Buhari said that Tinubu supported Tinubu, who was praising his dedication for national unity, reform and discipline.
In Abuja, Chinja Samuel contradicts for this article.
Edited by: Benita van Esen
