the forest was shrinking, ie(northerners were being massacred and pushed into poverty), but the trees, ie(northern poor and almajiris) keep voting for the axe, ie(buhari), because its handle was made of wood. ie(buhari being a pro sharia law northern muslim). and they thought it was one of them. ie(they thought buhari was there to represent their interest, but he's only coming back to continue killing, impoverishing and confiscating their ancestral inheritance)