Buhari's integrity: From attenuation to total wipe-out
By Adekunle Adekoya Time flies! And very fast too. IN 2014-2015, a retired general known to us as Muhammadu Buhari was sold to us as the very personification of integrity, which meant he was a man of his words who would do exactly as he said. During the electioneering whose main objective, as we can now see, was not to make life and living better and easier for me and you but to oust Dr Goodluck Jonathan and his PDP cohorts from power, Buhari was sold to us as the next best thing to happen to humanity in Nigeria outside the scriptures. Hook, line, and sinker, the masses of Nigeria bought into the sales hype and swallowed the fake mantra of change that was promised. Eight years of two presidential terms after, Nigerians now know better, but are gnashing their teeth in that knowledge. What happened to integrity? We will probably spend the rest of each of our lives trying to fathom just what happened. Why couldn't a man keep his words? Why would someone promise during electioneering ...