The death of democracy in Nigeria: A coroner’s inquest (7)

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By Douglas Anele

Supporters and lackeys of President Muhammadu Buhari who repeat ad nauseam that he is an honest man, a man of integrity, either do not really know the meanings of ‘honest’ or ‘integrity’ or are genuflecting praise-singers benefitting one way or another from the fact that Buhari is the President. In the context of our analysis, ‘integrity’ connotes “uprightness, wholeness and purity,” whereas the word ‘honest’ is inextricably connected to positive attributes like being just, fair, candid, free from fraud, truthful, and so on. Now, from a dispassionate and objective point of view, can President Buhari be truthfully described as an honest leader, a man of integrity, especially given what is in the public domain about his activities and utterances from the time he was military head of state to the present?

A few preliminary remarks will serve as our navigator in answering that question. According to media reports, President Buhari’s claim in…



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