I have never been a fan of the President-elect of Nigeria, Alhaji Mahamadu Buhari. I thought he was high-handed while he led Nigeria as a military dictator in the 1980s. To be brutally frank, I have never admired military dictators. If you ask me why I never countenanced the leadership style of Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings of Ghana, for instance, I will not shy away from the truth. I hate the way Jerry Rawlings used the intimidating powers of the gun to make himself leader in this society.
I did not welcome him when he used the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council and the Provisional National Defence Council to cow down the citizenry to pave the way for his long occupation of Ghana, using military fatigues. I am still nursing my wounds for the way this society allowed itself to be intimidated by the gun as Rawlings' main ally. The nerve, with which he applied assets of state to turn governance process in Ghana into the National Democratic Congress as a political party, still annoys me as a student of national politics.
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