BY NIGERIAN AUTHOR AMARA CHIDINMA EZEDINIRU

B.U.H.A.R.I.

If I had a minute with President Buhari, I would share these thoughts with him.

Because we thought highly of your intelligence and considered your gentle mien, we trusted your antecedence, the fact that your chattels and your freeholds were a few. Because you had drunk from the tree of power as a young officer, you knew clout and supremacy. You were a general; you are a civilian. You knew the difference for you had been without a uniform longer than you were with it. We feared how you’d fare yet we gave it a try. The Nigerian people spoke, they gave you the mandate, a risk I still wonder its worth.

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