His redemptive pledges on corruption, insecurity and economic resurgence seemingly had the animation of the famous revolutionary triad: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Unfortunately, President Buhari squandered the goodwill sooner than later, by allowing cronyism, sectionalism and lopsidedness to undermine his political appointments. This made nonsense of the, “I belong to everybody and I belong to no one” proclamation in his inaugural speech.
Massacres and the scorched-earth method of terrorists and bandits have created thousands of orphans, widows, widowers and 3.2 million Internally Displaced Persons as of April 2022, according to Chansa Kapaya, the UNHRC Country Representative in Nigeria. If this is contrasted with the Statista data of 2,096,000 IDPs in 2015 when Buhari assumed office, the picture becomes stark and sticky.
The economy limped through it all; it slipped into recession twice in 2016 and 2020 – with the latter triggered by the menace of COVID-19. However, the economy crawled out of recession, cushioned by a GDP growth of 3.3 per cent in 2022. Nigeria no longer officially imports rice, says the CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, because local production has increased to between 6.5 and 8 metric tons per hectare by the Anchor Borrowers rice project, from the 1.5 metric tons it was in 2015.
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