Buhari, Buharism and Buharinomics

President Muhammadu Buhari
The nation is gradually seeing the president in action and the generations who were either not born or matured enough in 1983 to 1985 during the first coming of Major General Muhammadu Buhari as a military ruler, must now be able to see that the story they heard about the man has not changed. What story? The story that a military ruler took over from a civilian administration; from one President Shehu Aliyu Shagari, due to corruption and incompetence. The nation was made to undergo a rebirth from wastefulness and daylight political brigandry, the malady that almost suffocated life out of the nation.

Buhari came, saw the nation bleeding to death, as an infantry officer, he shot his way to power, arrested the looters of the commonwealth and tried them under the military decree. Some politicians were jailed, while some were kept under house arrest, others fled. Those that fled the country were not spared. Buhari’s government declared them wanted at all cost. Ubah Ahmed, Adisa Akinloye and Umaru Dikko were declared wanted over treasury looting. Dikko was abducted by the State Security Service officials in the heart of London. The abduction failed at the Heathrow Airport in London and Nigerian officers behind the operation of repatriating Dikko to Nigeria were apprehended, tried and jailed in London for abduction. The Dikko’s loot remained in UK banks till today, but the conscience of the keepers kept troubling them till they cried out over why they are still keeping the loots.
Buhari’s retroactive decree against drug traffickers was described as draconian. Some young Nigerians; Batholomie Owoh and others caught were summarily tried and executed, and the nation’s condemnation went far and near over Buhari’s government action. Those drug traffickers ran out of steam for the period Buhari called the shots, but returned and remain till date after his ousting. Buhari that we know will sooner or later chase the drug peddlers out again. This time not with retroactive decrees, but with the laws of the land. To Buhari, what is not good must not be spared. Drugs have ruined many lives all over the world. We must therefore waste the wasters before they waste our youths.
Buhari’s War Against Indiscipline (WAI) battled indiscipline in almost all aspect of our lives. The war against indiscipline in schools curbed lateness among teachers and students. Soldiers were sent to schools to whip the students when necessary, but Fela Anikulapo would not tolerate that, so he withdrew his son, Femi, from school. The war worked against rushing and unruly behaviour at bus stops. Civility was restored in public places. No one dared to jump queues at post offices, supermarkets, airports and etcetera. The Buhari we know will not spare acts of indiscipline. Those concerned should get out of the way of indiscipline before PMB comes to that item on his agenda. No nation progresses in the midst of indiscipline; to Buhari, the change will not be completed without war against indiscipline.
The Decree 4 of 1984 caused the press to clash with Buhari, two Guardian newspapers reporters were jailed. Buhari forgot the word of Chairman Mao of China who declared: “I fear the pen more than the sword.” Buhari took on the press, and it remains his albatross till date. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took him up with the press and he almost lost out. It was the then opposition press that rescued him. The world almost believed that the APC’s candidate had no secondary school certificate. Ayodele Fayose compared his mother’s health at 72 with that of Buhari and swore the man’s brain was dead. Only those that were not in Nigeria will not remember how the president was humbled and embarrassed over the certificate issue. His health and mental capacity were queried before our very eyes. The State Security Services were always in the news over the political party that Buhari was flying its flag. The Raypower/AIT documentary was out to damage the dream of his presidency. They spared not even his backers.
But Buhari’s vengeance against Raypower/AIT came sooner than they envisaged and Buhari’s men sent them out of Aso Rock before the people cried out that this is democracy and not a military regime. Buhari was not done yet, but he said “They call me baba go slow, let them call me, I will go slow and steady