"Buhari Worse Than Jonathan" — Associate Professor, Farooq Kperogi

I just wondered why I didn't find this post when I search for it on Nairaland. Prof. Kperogi, need no introduction, he is a former staunch pro-Buhari and an A list occupant of Northern intelligentsia. He wrote speeches for Obasanjo during his presidency, he taught at ABU Zaria and Kaduna Polytechnic. He is celebrated even in the US, where he now teaches at Kennesaw state university. When he was criticising Jonathan, he was hero in the North and devil in South. Now things turn Buhari cluelessness in full work, people are just managing to survive. Now he is hero in the South and Devil in the North (partially). Last week he dropped bombshell. In a terse Facebook post which received high reactions he confirm Buhari is worse than Jonathan.
I used to say that it was impossible for any Nigerian president to be worse than Jonathan. That was how much I despised him. So in May 2015, I started out investing enormous hopes in Buhari to transform Nigeria and to build enduring institutions. After waiting 6 months to appoint a predictable, lackluster cabinet, it became clear to me that my hopes were misplaced, that Buhari wasn’t prepared to be president, so I scaled backed my expectations and hoped that Buhari would at least be minimally better than Jonathan.
But when Buhari hiked fuel prices, reversed the few crumbling subsidies that sustained the poor, and became prisoner of the “Washington Consensus,” I scaled back my expectations again and hoped that Buhari would be just as bad as Jonathan was.
When his government’s incredibly inept husbandry of the economy continued to deepen the recession it instigated in the first place with its wrongheaded policies, I hoped that Buhari would just be slightly worse than Jonathan for the sake of Nigeria’s survival.
Now with the unceasing rash of counter-intuitive, mutually contradictory, insanely irrational, and thoughtless policy prescriptions from this government, the very foundation of the country is tanking before our very eyes, and I just hope Buhari never does anything again till 2019 when his tenure will expire—and with it the torment he is inflicting on Nigeria. A stagnant, do-nothing Buhari is now better for the country than this madness we’re witnessing! Nigeria is fast sinking to the nadir of despair and ruination.