Eddy Odivwri
Last week, I promised to revisit an interview the then Gen Mohammadu Buhari granted this newspaper, in December 2014, as he was yet aspiring to win the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The interview which was published as “Presidential Series” was aimed at presenting the ‘repented’ Buhari to the voting public. He had borne the dark patch of being a military dictator, in his ‘first missionary journey” to save Nigeria. So, his publicists were not only so keen to present a re-oriented and more tolerant Buhari to the public, but also to project a man with a kind of Deus ex Machina capacity to fix Nigeria and her many ills.