The warning signs were there from the moment he won that election in March 2015 that his impetus to govern had suffered a catastrophic failure and become flaccid like the weary arm of a stuffed doll.
Taking eight months, from winning the elections, to announce a cabinet was a starting point of this unravelling. Pointedly refusing to raise a finger against those responsible for padding the budget in that first year, despite promising to fight corruption, was yet another. But Nigerians, weary of the wastefulness of the Jonathan years, were far more accommodating of Buhari’s excesses than they had ever been with any president in the history of the country.