𝗕𝘂𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶 𝗜𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱 – 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗼 𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗶𝘀 “𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆”

Muhammadu Buhari is dead. And with him dies the myth that Nigeria was ever in good hands.

For years, Buhari was sold to Nigerians as the “disciplined general” who would fight corruption, end insecurity, and restore dignity to Africa’s largest democracy. What we got instead was an absentee president, a crackdown on dissent, skyrocketing poverty, and blood on the streets—literally.

Let’s be blunt: Buhari didn’t just fail Nigeria. He betrayed it.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝘁𝘆

After ruling as a military dictator in the 1980s—jailing journalists, executing civilians via retroactive decrees, and declaring war on “indiscipline”—Buhari reinvented himself as a democrat. Nigerians gave him a second chance in 2015, hoping for a break from the kleptocratic rule of Goodluck Jonathan. But instead of reform, we got repression dressed up as “anti-corruption.”

Under Buhari, the EFCC became a political weapon. His friends walked free. His enemies were dragged. Corruption didn’t vanish—it just changed jerseys.

𝗟𝗲𝗸𝗸𝗶 𝗧𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱

On October 20, 2020, the mask came off.

As young Nigerians across the country protested police brutality under the #EndSARS movement, calling for justice and reform, Buhari’s government responded with silence, then spin, then violence.

At Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, unarmed protesters waving flags and singing the national anthem were shot at by the Nigerian Army. Live. On camera. The world saw it. Nigerians felt it. And yet the government tried to gaslight us all—denying what we saw, calling it fake news, and protecting those responsible.

To this day, not a single high-ranking official has been held accountable. Not one.

Buhari said he was a man of integrity. So why was justice buried at the toll gate?

𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵, 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘀

Let’s talk about the years Buhari disappeared to London for medical treatment—while Nigerian hospitals decayed. The same man who once said no official should seek foreign healthcare spent months abroad on the taxpayers’ dime, never once disclosing the true nature of his illness. The country was left on autopilot, run by cabals and whispers.

At one point, the rumors got so wild that people believed he had died and been replaced by a Sudanese clone. Ridiculous? Yes. But also a sign of how detached and secretive his government had become.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝗕𝘂𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱?

• Two recessions.
• Historic levels of unemployment and inflation.
• A debt crisis that mortgaged Nigeria’s future.
• A country more divided than ever along ethnic and religious lines.
• A security situation so dire that even schoolchildren were kidnapped en masse with impunity.

The man who promised to end Boko Haram left office with new terror groups thriving, bandits controlling vast parts of the north, and police still extorting citizens on the streets.

And let’s not forget how dissent was crushed—from Sowore to Nnamdi Kanu to Twitter itself. Under Buhari, even free speech was treated like a threat to national security.

𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗕𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱

Now that he’s gone, sycophants will try to rewrite the narrative. They’ll call him “a patriot,” “a nationalist,” “a man of discipline.” But history remembers facts, not PR.

And the facts are these: Buhari failed to protect the Nigerian people. He failed to unify the country. And on his watch, blood ran in the streets—while the government stayed silent.

Muhammadu Buhari is dead.

But so are the #EndSARS victims. So are thousands lost to insurgency, police brutality, hunger, and state neglect.

If we’re going to mourn, let’s mourn the truth. And let’s never forget it.

©𝓜𝓪𝔀𝓾𝓽𝓸𝓻 𝓐𝓭𝔃𝓪𝓽𝓸 .