Nigeria’s Whitewashed Heads of State: The General Muhammadu Buhari

By: Akinyemi, Muhammed Adedeji

Nigeria’s famous mutiny class of July 1966 all graduated summa cum laude, with their distinctions earning them places in Government. The set was responsible for all of Nigeria’s military governments from then on until the fourth republic. One of the famed graduates of this mutinous set who escaped punishment for their crimes against the Nigerian state was Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s anti-corruption merchant.