Written by Obinna Akukwe
The response of President Muhammadu Buhari to the Fulani bandits attacks ravaging and threatening the oneness of the nation is at most negative, intrepid, and unbecoming of a ‘People’s General’ whom I played a significant role , among other key activists, writers and columnists, in bringing to power in 2015 and 2019
I do not regret helping Buhari win the elections, because, having been successfully rigged out in 2003 and 2007, and losing in 2011, a win in 2015 is enough to correct the electoral injustices of the Obasanjo and Yaradua years. I wrote a highly circulated piece then in December 2011 titled ‘Buhari, Jonathan and Boko Haram’ where I posited that:
‘’A man that could garner 12 million (official) or 14 million (unofficial) votes representing 36% official and 42% unofficial in an election where all the PDP machinery was unleashed including enormous funds, traditional institutions, governors, ministers, ex-presidents , INEC and forces of intimidation from the police, soldiers and other agents of coercion is certainly a force to reckon with in Nigeria.
‘’Buhari is the most popular politician in the north. Had the 2003 and 2007 presidential elections been held according to minimum acceptable standards, Buhari would since have handed over to another President of Nigeria’’.