“Let me make you this promise today: We will protect your children. We will protect your wealth. We will make this country work again.” – President Muhammadu Buhari, January 6, 2015.
Three years ago, President Buhari made you a promise. It reverberated around the walls of your existence, persuading you that redemption was indeed possible, that your country could indeed be saved. Reading the quote above now, in the context of the recent terrorist attacks claiming countrymen, it feels like the punchline to a morbid joke no one finds at all funny.
A presidential hopeful running on the assurance of being a newer, more efficient alternative to the incumbent, he swore, during long impassioned speeches, to succeed where Dr. Goodluck Jonathan had failed: to strengthen our national security, safeguard citizens from genocidal attacks and mitigate the perilous powers of poverty….
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