Jide Ojo
President Muhammadu Buhari campaigned on a three-point agenda in the lead-up to the 2015 general election. He promised to fight insecurity, revamp the economy and tackle corruption. On these, while he may have recorded some baby-step successes, his performance has been anything but sterling. In all honesty, we cannot in good conscience claim to be more secure now than we were before Buhari came to power on May 29, 2015. While he’s been able to contain the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East, banditry, herdsmen killings and kidnapping have soared. The economy is still on tenterhooks with Nigeria currently ranked as the country with the highest number of poor people in the world while the anti-corruption crusade has been largely lopsided.
For the over three years that President Buhari has been in power, his administration has done much to demonise the former ruling…
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