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Born To Rule

In the end, Buhari will be judged, not by the purity of his intentions, but the manifestations of his decisions.

Eke Jude
Aug 31, 2019
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Muhammadu Buhari

In the early hours of Saturday, December 31, 1983, Brigadier Sani Abacha, then a one-star General in the Nigerian Army, accompanied by armed soldiers, stormed the studios of the FRCN, Ikoyi, Lagos. A few minutes later, martial music erupted from the radio station. “You are all living witness to the grave economic predicament and uncertai…

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