Workshop

In his famous critique of Kwameh Nkrumah's leadership style, Ali Mazrui described Nkrumah's shapeshifting nature as one who democratically begun and ended in despotism by appropriating and amassing powers of the state to himself and implementing obnoxious laws and policies, especially against figures perceived as threat. In what seemed as Nkrumah's metamorphosis, Buhari deceptively rode on to the throne rooms through the vehicle and gains of democracy and in no time unveiled his autocratic tenets.  The word 'deception' may be clipped or replaced with another that best characterizes Buhari's chequered figure. In any case, he has never hidden his true tendencies. The facts were in existence; his actions portrayed a dictator with no or little regards to rule of law and due process and in the search for progressive leadership, Nigerians went blindfolded and voted massively for 'change'. As expected, the change ought to transform our socio-econom...