Army Habits Die Hard as Nigeria's Buhari Defies Court Orders ▶ Prolonged detentions for opponents seen flouting constitution ▶ Moves echo Buhari’s days as leader of 1980s junta, critics say Muhammadu Buhari Photographer: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images An article published by the New York City based financial, software, data, and media company Bloomberg L.P. When a Nigerian high court ruled this month that a former national security adviser should be freed on bail, it was the sixth such judgment since his detention in 2015. Authorities haven’t obeyed a single one. For critics of President Muhammadu Buhari, he’s picking and choosing which judgments to comply with, a stance that stirs uncomfortable echoes of his days as a military ruler in the 1980s. His government defends his actions as necessary to combat graft in the oil-rich West African country of almost 200 million people, a pledge that was key to Buhari’s victory in a 2...
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