The Buhari Years: What We Ordered vs What We Got – civil society leaders reflect on the Buhari Administration and its achievements, shortcomings, and regressive actions. At the time President Muhammadu Buhari was elected the president of Nigeria, a lot of Nigerians were hopeful. I was one of them. We were all encouraged by the […]
The Buhari Years: What We Ordered vs What We Got – civil society leaders reflect on the Buhari Administration and its achievements, shortcomings, and regressive actions.
In fact, it was I who took his wife and children to see him for the first time after that long period at Keffi Prison where he was being detained before we perfected his bail. That was how I became more attuned to the impunity in the Buhari administration. It couldn’t have been clearer that this President, who claimed to believe in Nigeria’s toddling democracy was indeed not prepared to abide by the tenets of that democracy. It became apparent that something had truly changed in the country’s history and the battle line had been drawn.
There were the actions of the executive through the office of the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed. The Minister was not subtle in his threats to gag the press! This took the form of stringent and arbitrary policies, as well as the military-like wielding of the power of the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission and the Minister of Information.
Furthermore, in 2021, emboldened by the federal government’s war against freedom of expression, the state governments of Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, and Kaduna, shutdown telecommunications services for a period spanning up to six weeks, under the guise of fighting terrorism, without recourse to the due process of law that requires checks and balances and judicial oversight.
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