Muhammadu Buhari: The Nigerian Legacy (2015–2023), Volumes 1–5

This five-volume compendium is a comprehensive and definitive historical account of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. It is neither a commissioned, government-solicited, nor a government-censored work. It is a self-motivated initiative of the editor, representing one citizen’s determined desire to chronicle for posterity the stewardship of one of Nigeria’s most enigmatic public personalities, Muhammadu Buhari, over eight years.

The primary focus of the study is on the administration of President Buhari from 2015 to 2023, but it begins with a miniaturized biography of the man as background to the five-volume compendium. It goes back to his formative years as a young military officer through his first appearance as head of state during the military era and subsequent forays into politics under a democratic climate between 1999 and 2023.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s style, which greatly influenced his administration, is his natural shyness and reticence to publicity. Thus, the administration he led will be remembered, among other things, as one that sang quite little about its achievements while in office. The reasons for this reluctance to self-proclamation include not only the president’s reserved nature but also the huge, overwhelming nature of the problems inherited by the administration and the equally huge and larger-than-life expectations of the citizens on what a Buhari government could do.

Solving these problems continued for the greater part of the administration’s life and was compounded by economic recessions, the global COVID-19 pandemic that brought the entire world to a standstill, and other events like the Russia-Ukraine war that did huge damage to global economies, Nigeria’s included. So, there wasn’t much appropriate time and space to dwell on the things that the administration did.

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