His failure to bring peace or prosperity offers lessons for his successor
,” says Usama Sani, a student in Kano, the biggest city in northern Nigeria. “There is insecurity and unemployment,” he complains, before shouting: “We are going to kick Buhari aside!” President Muhammadu Buhari used to be popular in Kano; he won landslide support there in two presidential elections. Now, says another student, Umar Garba Umar, “we are so hungry for change.” Even members of Mr Buhari’s own All Progressives Congress are down on the outgoing president.
Even so, Mr Buhari has failed to impress. He is indecisive. After his first inauguration he took 166 days to swear in a cabinet. He is reluctant to delegate, but often unavailable to make decisions himself, owing to ill-health. He has spent more than 200 days in Britain, primarily for medical treatment, leaving his government paralysed.
Some bits of the economy have flourished, mainly by staying away from the state. Industries that rely on Nigerian talent, such as information technology, music or film-making, have thrived. Mr Buhari’s government appears reluctant to listen to criticism or acknowledge mistakes. Lai Mohammed, the information minister, insists that Mr Buhari has “taken the bull by the horns, as far as security is concerned”. In reality, the main jihadist group, Boko Haram, was suffering big reverses when he took over, which continued for a while. But then other groups started causing mayhem across far more of the country.
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