Nigeria’s President Buhari hopes to be re-elected on Saturday. When he took office four years ago, he made sweeping promises – which he has almost entirely failed to keep, says DW’s Lagos correspondent, Adrian Kriesch.

Kano, in Nigeria’s north, in early 2015. Hundreds of thousands of Buhari supporters throng the streets on their way to a rally, many of them holding wicker brooms, his party’s symbol of sweeping away corruption.

The euphoria at the rally is palpable. Speaking to the cheering crowds, Buhari promises to clean up the country, which in 2015 ranks 136 out of 167 countries on the Corruption Perceptions Index.

Government corruption – in the form of bribery, waste and siphoning off contracts is rampant in Africa’s biggest economy. But Buhari is even seen by his political opponents as incorruptible – a sensation in Nigeria.

During his visit to Kano, Buhari stops to pay a visit to the Emir of Kano, the Muslim head of the region. But so many people storm around Buhari’s party bus in the hope of catching a glimpse of the presidential candidate that he’s unable to get out of the vehicle. Amid scenes normally reserved for pop stars, Buhari has to turn back.

Two months later, Nigeria goes to the ballot. People believe Buhari’s promise of a clean break from the dirty politics of the past as well as his vows to revive the flagging economy and defeat the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency. They give Buhari a decisive victory.

But four years later, the results of Buhari’s first term office are disappointing.

“The ship of the APC is fast sinking and is obviously beyond redemption. Nigerians are daily convinced that that the APC was a mistake made in 2015 and are also resolved that they are a mistake to be corrected in 2019.”
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Wizklynd23:
PDP supporters always crying & Wailing.PMB doing great job.Fighting corruption.Restoring our economy
Restoring security.Giving the economy life again.PDP put us all in this mess by constant looting for 16 Years
PDP never again #SaiBABA