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TOWER OF TERROR AND BIGOTRY igeria has always been a basket case.  Things  that are abnormal and aberrations takes  place in Nigeria everyday; they are  commonplace and they assume normality and are acceptable as part of our life.  Having  illiterate soldiers rail road the whole nation  of well educated people was at one time  acceptable in the mentality of Nigerians.  At  the sight of a demented soldier on national  television Nigerians rush out to celebrate and welcome the new 'messiah' to Dodan Barrack. The people easily lap up the new soldier ofￂ fortune's promises and good intentions andￂ will be glad that the thieves in babariga andￂ tall caps (a la Shagari's) have been arrestedￂ and their political parties "dissolved."ￂ People  will take to the streets to listen to all the  new promises of what the new "fedraￂ gonment" will do.  They will lap up all the " summarily dismissed," "hearby dissolved," " summarily expelled," and nonsense like "this  gonment will not tallrate any indisplin" fromￂ the very mouth of lowlifes who are the veryￂ epitome of indiscipline!  Mohammudu Buhariￂ was one of such undisciplined soldiers thatￂ forcefully terminated democraticallyￂ constituted and elected governments. The twin towers of terror, Mohammudu Buhari and his co-traveler Tunde Idiagbon, plotted  and terminated the second republic.  The  second republic was never a worthy ventureￂ considering the excesses and corruption ofￂ the epicureans in Alhaji Shehu Shagari andￂ Adisa (the self-processed and heavily deluded AMA, Always Mentally Alert) Akiloye's National  Party of Nigeria (NPN), but only the peopleￂ have the right to terminate it through theￂ ballot box.  But Buhari has no regard for theￂ ballot box or democratic process thatￂ engenders and enthrones democraticￂ regimes.  Like any soldier of fortune with aￂ huge personal agenda, Buhari overthrew theￂ government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari.  Heￂ accused the civilian administration ofￂ corruption and bad governance; he calledￂ them names and came to the conclusion that  they will be "summarily disciplined."  Onￂ December 31 , 1983 , Mohammudu Buhariￂ rolled back the hands of the nation'sￂ development and stymied the progress ofￂ Nigeria.  He decided to clean up the mess left  behind by the National Party of Nigeria ( NPN)  and restore order.  But rather than dealing  with the crooks, philanders, epicureans,  grabbers and looters in the NPN and hold  them accountable, he chose to punish only a  section of the political landscape; he focused  on the political opposition that controlled less than 30 % of the funds at the time.  Buhari  arrested, detained and tried all the governors of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) while theￂ erstwhile leaders of the NPN were leftￂ untouched and a mere handful of them keptￂ under house arrest. Buhari's was a selective approach to  governance and justice.  Not a single Hausa/ Fulani man or woman was arrested,  interrogated, detained, brought to trial or  sent to jail during his dictatorship despite the legions of Southern non-Muslim ' infidels' he  detained without trial, sentenced for flimsy  reasons, or murdered by retroactive law.  It  was only Umaru Dikko he went after - for. . . . . . . .      .    .  . .There is no doubt in my mind that General  Mohammudu Buhari failed in every area of  assessment.  He lacks the temperament to  tolerate democratic culture, he is poorly  educated and lack the creative, analytical and strategic thinking required leading a nation  like Nigeria.  It is true Buhari had gunned his  way into power in Nigeria before, essentially  an accident of history that should never have  happened.  He may be qualified to lead the  Caliphate but even then the days of the  Caliphate have receded into the footnotes of  history.  Buhari was a soldier who disobeyed  his commander in chief and forcefully  removed an elected government from office. Besides lacking the moral authority and  shared values required of a democratic  leader, Buhari's antecedent as minister in the petroleum ministry where funds disappeared  and later as chairman of the Petroleum Trust  Funds where cases of widespread corruption  and sectionalism were rampant necessarily  made it imperative to disqualify this former  tower of terror.