Katsina-born Nigerian Army General, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari yesterday completed his two terms of eight years of presidency in Nigeria as Iragbiji-Osun State-born Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who acquired Lagos State citizenship, assumes office as the new president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
While Buhari is the nation’s 15th President, Tinubu is the 16th President of the most populous African country.
As of the time Tinubu was sworn-in as the 16th president, his emergence as the winner of the 2023 Presidential Election is being contested by the two candidates of the major opposition political parties: Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of the country under the presidency of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Peter Obi, the former governor of Anambra State.
Buhari, the immediate past president of Nigeria will be remembered for many things including nepotism, favoritism, tribalism, religious bigotry, and sinking the country into abject poverty.
Buhari will be remembered for destroying the nation socially, politically, economically, educationally, and religiously, with the health system and security nearest to collapse.
Buhari will be remembered for his cashless policy in which several billions of Naira was spent on printing new naira notes that were not made available to the citizens resulting in the impoverishment of Nigerians.
Terrorism acts from members of international terrorist organizations like Boko Haram, ISIS, ISWAP, and Fulani herdsmen, who wreaked untold havoc on the country and the citizens cannot be forgotten so quickly.
Kidnappers, ritualists and other criminal cartels had field days and they have occupied the bush coming out of their hidings to carry out deadly operations for ransom or human part selling.
He left a debt of N46.25 trillion for Tinubu’s government.
A former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the 8th National Assembly, accused Buhari of leaving behind a country without any economic direction.
He said in a tweet, “He led the country without any economic direction. He presided over a government that failed to secure the lives of Nigerians; 63,000 dead, three million internally displaced persons and 366,000 refugees in neighbouring countries.
“He failed to restructure as he promised. He granted waivers to the rich and impoverished the poor. He closed the borders for those who import bags of rice on motorcycles and permitted those who use the ships.
“He built magical pyramids that disappeared after three days. He left incomplete projects with huge debts to service for decades.
“He enabled, enriched and reinforced a cabal for eight years. He appointed and retained failures and rewarded them with extensions. He was weak in taking decisions and running away when it’s tough.
“He has no house in London but made London his home. He left behind record inflation, record devaluation, record unemployment, record fall in GDP, record figures of poverty and record plunder of state resources.
“He left behind a nation with 60 million people suffering from mental illnesses. He is leaving behind the health workers on strike. He set up traps for the next government in order to make his own look better.”
