On Buhari’s refusal to apologise for truncating democracy in 1983, Nnamdi Okosieme wrote:

In Ayi Kwei Armah’s ‘The Beautyful Ones are not yet born’, a character in the novel is referred to as Chichidodo; a bird, which hates faeces but loves the maggots emanating therefrom. In Nigeria, we have a General who professes a morbid dislike for corruption but is quite comfortable cavorting with patron saints of corruption. We have a General who wants to come into office via the Nigerian constitution and through the will of the people but has not apologised nor has he regretted overthrowing a government elected by the people and subverting the constitution of the land