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Muhammadu Buhari: The Nigerian Legacy (2015-2023) – Vol 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, nor a   government-solicited, nor a government-censored work. It is a self-motivated initiative of   the editor and represents one citizen’s determined desire to chronicle for posterity the   stewardship of one of Nigeria’s most enigmatic public personalities, Muhammadu Buhari,   over a period of eight years.

The primary focus of the study is on the administration of President Buhari from 2015 to   2023, but it begins with a miniaturised biography of the man as background to the five-   volume compendium. It goes back in time to his formative years as a young military officer   through to 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 influenced his administration greatly, is his   natural shyness and reticence to publicity. Thus, the administration that 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   were done by the administration.