Last month, Bloomberg reported that Nigeria would soon become the country with the highest jobless rate. Buhari has shown that he has neither the skill nor the courage nor the will to lead a country as complex as Nigeria. And in the end, judicial inquiries set up to investigate the events of last October were little more than a charade that failed to hold perpetrators of violence accountable.
Throughout his time in office, Buhari has also sought to suppress the Nigerian media, including illegally detaining journalists. But in , when the bill was reintroduced after being thrown out on its first attempt, first lady Aisha Buhari came out in support of it.
However, the president himself has remained noticeably silent on the issue, as the bill continues to be held up in the legislature. He also does not have the values. Buhari has long faced allegations that he is an ethnocentric and religious bigot for, among many reasons, his lackadaisical handling of the Fulani herdsmen crisis he is Fulani ; his decision to address a linguistically diverse nation in Hausa , a language predominantly spoken in the north; and, by his own confession after his electoral win, his admission in a small press meeting in the United States that he would address the needs of citizens based on how regions in the country voted.
If the next generation wants change, young Africans must abandon dreams of private-sector success and enter the political arena. In truth, the minister was well into his 30s when he voiced some of these views. The question that remains for the country is one that all democracies must contend with: Are Nigerians ultimately getting the government they deserve? The political system is less a democracy and more an ode to oligarchy—a system in which some citizens get to exercise their human rights sometimes.
In short, Nigerians do deserve better. If nothing else, because they have never truly been given the opportunity to participate in a functioning government run by those whose interests are not beholden to a sect or an ethnic group or a religion but to a people who—like it or not—will either flourish or perish together. Buhari, who has certainly brought Nigerians closer to perishing, was never the person for the job.
And it becomes clearer with each passing day, each reported failure of his administration, that the unknown future of his departure is preferable to this dreadful present. The next presidential election is in , and heaven knows, in Nigeria, there are seldom ever good choices, but there are sometimes less damaging ones. One can only hope that Nigerian voters remember this in two years. In the meantime, I am not sure the nation can afford to wait—in terms of its security and economic health, Nigeria is on the brink.
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