Muhammadu Buhari: The Nigerian Legacy Volume 1

Title: Muhammadu Buhari: The Nigerian Legacy Volume 1
Author: Udu Yakubu
Year of Publication: 2023
ISBN: 978-978-798-115-3
Pages: 416, xxiii

Muhammadu Buhari: The Nigerian Legacy (2015-2023) comprehensively and effectively captures the development-driven story of the President
Muhammadu Buhari administration. Nigeria’s democratic dispensation under Buhari was  epochal in several regards, and defined by an
outstanding vision of change and numerous unprecedented positive developments, reforms, growths, and challenges. The president himself
embodied a nation’s story of aspirations,  reinventions, and progress, and was the foremost driver of national development within the period. The volumes represent the transformational dynamics of national development primarily defined and directed by the President through
sheer political will and dexterity, and a re-conceptualization and
consolidation of policies and practices that enhanced the strengths of the
nation in various sectors of endeavour.

With the introduction and management of far-reaching reforms, the dexterous management of an economy that slid twice into recession, the deployment of strategies that effectively led the nation back to economic recovery and growth, the containment of eth- no-political diversities and differences, the war against terrorism, insurgency and banditry, among other landmark achievements and outcomes, the Buhari administration amply demonstrated vision, technical and political sagacity and capacity, and high performance in negotiating and navigating strategic pathways
and outcomes for positive change and national development.

The story of the administration is thus so much about the making and workings of governance in Nigeria as it is about the comprehensive history of Nigeria’s socio-political and economic development between 2015 and 2023. The volumes fully engage and articulate the administration’s history, relevance and legacies, and align these around its services, strategies, programmes, projects, achievements, and challenges in contexts of ensuring political and economic system stability and advancement. They also strive after a greater elaboration on the evolution of the
administration through changing socio-economic milieus. They cast the reality of the administration’s story with utmost substance and authenticity, deploying critical language tools to achieve a lucid and reader-friendly narrative. They are the definitive history of Nigeria in the Muhammadu Buhari years.