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THE EVIL THAT MEN DO
Lives After Them;
The Good Is Often Interred With Their Bones, So Let It Be With Caesar – W. Shakespeare*

▪️MOHAMMED BUHARI
(1942 – 2025)

By Raymond Onwaeze

Buhari is dead. Not in Abuja. Not in Daura. But in a London hospital, surrounded by foreign nurses and blinking machines, far from the land he bruised, far from the people he betrayed.

*He didn’t die a hero. He didn’t die in poverty. He didn’t die in the hands of the same failed health system he left for us. He died at 82 of old age peacefully, under the care of foreigners.*

*And that is the painful part. He got away with it. All of it. He died away from the noise. But we are the ones still coughing in the smoke.*

*Buhari Wasn’t a Leader. He Was a Lesson. A lesson in how not to govern. A reminder that silence can be violent.*

*That bigotry in uniform is just dictatorship in disguise. He turned citizens into refugees within their own borders.*

*When death came knocking, he didn’t trust the hospitals he refused to build; he ran. And so, death came.*

*Not on the soil he claimed to love, but in the foreign land he always trusted more. No ordinary citizen can afford the hospitals our leaders frequent abroad. But they never cared. From Yar’Adua to Buhari, it’s the same story. Europe remains their ER and land of demise.*

*And now, Nigeria breathes a little easier. Not out of joy, but relief. They say we shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. But what of the dead who ruled with ill intent? What of the dead who left millions alive, yet lifeless in hunger, fear, and frustration?*

*Let us not be hypocrites. Buhari was no statesman. He was a strongman with a fragile ego. A general who fought no war for his people. A president who weaponized silence while the nation burned.*

*He banned Twitter to shut us up. Let #EndSARS victims bleed while the national anthem played through gunshots. He closed the border and plunged us into a cash scarcity that choked the poor and empowered the corrupt.*

*Left students stranded for months as ASUU cried into a void. And called our youth lazy, for daring to demand better.*

*Eight years of torment. And yet… he died free. No tribunal. No probe. No exile. No consequence.*

*We didn’t get to judge him. He escaped us. And now, we curse his name, not out of vengeance, but consolation, to soothe the wound of unserved justice. He’s not going to hell.*

*He’s not heading to paradise. He’s simply done. Finality. Full stop. Dust. The Tyrant Left. The Damage Remains.*

*He wasn’t a leader; he was a lesson in how a nation can be brought to its knees by silence, bigotry, and stubbornness.*

*He ruled for one section, one religion, one language, and the rest of us were strangers in our own country. He championed impunity. Appointments reeked of tribal loyalty. His silence on herdsmen terrorism? Deafening. His passion for “cows” louder than his empathy for Nigerians.*

▪️BOLA AHMED TINUBU*

*BAT, look closely, that’s your possible future. You enabled him. You watched him fail, and still told us to trust him. Even in his failure, You campaigned a second Term for him with bullion vans of looted funds. Then when he was done, You shouted “Emi l’okan” without any remorse, even when the people hadn’t healed from Buhari’s brutality.*

*Now you sit in the same chair enabled by a corrupt Umpire and a complicit Judiciary, surrounded by the same cabal, and issuing the same empty policies. Let this be your warning: Buhari is gone, but his ghost will haunt every leader who walks in his shadow.*

*You said, “Emi l’okan.” My turn. Fine. It’s your turn by hook or crook. But we pray, it is not your turn on a journey of no return.*

*BAT, you must not fall into that same pit. Lagos is not Nigeria. Yoruba is not Nigeria. APC is not Nigeria. Nigeria is for all Nigerians, not your private estate.*

*Buhari ignored this truth, and now Nigerians cheer his death like rainfall after a drought. Let that chill your spine. You can either break the cycle or become the next chapter in this national horror story.*

*Don’t gaslight us with “Renewed Hope” while prices rise, and justice dies. Because legacy is louder than any propaganda.*

*Let his death not just close a chapter. Let it open your eyes, BAT. Or else, one day, just like him, you’ll die far from home, surrounded by soulless machines.*

*Don’t be a president feared by the people, and remembered not with flowers, but with fire.*

*And to the People… Let’s be honest. Bad leadership wins because the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good citizens to do nothing. Evil is enabled by primordial sentiments and fallback to ethnicity and religion in any nation state.*

*Buhari died free. It’s our fault, our loss, not his. But let this pain ignite our resolve for next time.*

*Let it strengthen our memory. Let it remind us that history is not always fair, but it is recorded.*

*We may not have punished him on earth. But we must remember.*

*That is our vengeance. That is our justice. May we never forget. May all the bad leaders never forget this one that got away. He was lucky. They may not be lucky next time.*

And may Nigeria never again be cursed with a ruler who despised the people who entrusted him with power. Let the dead go. Let the living learn.

History doesn’t forget. And next time.. we won’t forgive still.

 

*@RaymondOnwaeze*
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