Buhari thrust himself into our consciousness when he truncated democracy by successfully staging a coup d’etat that sacked a democratically elected government of Nigeria in 1983.

His true character did not take long to manifest.  Before our very eyes, the head of the government he sacked, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, was declared a saint and kept under house arrest while his erstwhile Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, was declared a scoundrel and clamped into Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison without any judicial pronouncement as to his guilt.

His disdain and contempt for the judiciary did not know bounds. He took it abroad and crated Alhaji Umaru Dikko, the sacked Transport Minister, for repatriation back to the country.  These are some of the attributes of someone who wants to be the President of Nigeria under a democratic setting in the 21st century.

Let’s even leave his anti-corruption gaffes and pretences which led to the easy passage of 53 suitcases belonging to a sacred cow while other Nigerians’ goods were impounded and destroyed at the same airport. This was anti-corruption war indeed!

His hatred for law, order and due process even went to the extreme.  Lives of young Nigerians who were caught and tried for drug offences were executed on the orders of Buhari even with Decrees made to have retroactive effect.  Is this the kind of leader we want in 2011 Nigeria?

How about the contempt for truth which to him is an anathema with his dreaded Decree 4 against journalists for publishing the truth? How would Buhari operate under the new Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill when passed into law? A leopard cannot change its spots so easily.