Did Buhari miscalculate? - Punch Newspapers
Punch Newspapers Sections Published 16 May 2021 When Muhammadu Buhari led his Congress for Progressive Change to merge with other parties to form the All Progressives Congress in preparation for the 2015 election, critics saw it as purely opportunistic. One particularly scorching critic wrote then that Buhari is a single-minded person who would use anyone to attain his purpose. Buhari’s apparent inability to articulate sophisticated thoughts lends credence to this claim. And then there is the more widely-held view that he is an Islamist. I remember thinking then that in combination the thre...