With mouth agape, a friend of mine, on a first visit to Ghana, narrated how efficient the country works and how far behind we have been left as a nation. On another occasion, he was with a top Ghanaian player in the Nigerian private sector and the story was how perfectly efficient sectors that fumble and wobble in Nigeria work so well in Ghana…

In a country where the average citizen accepts, as a matter of course, that even the best performing politicians cannot be totally free of corruption, Buhari stood out as a man of integrity. Even his most ardent critics and enemies could not link him to anything shady…