{"id":169551,"date":"2025-07-15T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/why-buhari-got-into-trouble-with-nigerians"},"modified":"2025-07-15T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:48:00","slug":"why-buhari-got-into-trouble-with-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/why-buhari-got-into-trouble-with-nigerians","title":{"rendered":"Why Buhari got into trouble with Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Garba Shehu, a former aide to late President Muhammadu Buhari, has explained why his deceased boss got into trouble with many Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Shehu stated this on Tuesday while fielding questions on Arise Television\u2019s Morning Show programme.<\/p>\n<p>He said Buhari got into trouble with Nigerians a lot of the time because Nigerians don\u2019t like jokes.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the late Buhari liked to hear stories and jokes a lot, adding that Nigerians took him seriously and came after him.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI think this thing you said now is more sense of him. You know, he never liked frozen environments. Whenever he entered a room, or for a meeting or conversation of any sort, he would crack [a joke]. He would enliven the atmosphere. And people got enough and enjoyed his presence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe liked to hear stories. He told stories, and this is what got him into trouble with Nigerians a lot of the time, because I think Nigerians don\u2019t like jokes. So when a leader jokes on any given issue, they take him seriously, and then they come after him and all of these attacks. But otherwise, President Muhammadu Buhari was a very pleasant person to be around. You would feel relaxed, because the moment you come to him, he disarms you with his humor, with his charm, with the humor, and then you get to discuss business with him in a very relaxed situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut as I said, you know, a lot of the time he cracks a small joke, and then people take it seriously. And then they begin to come after him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reported that Buhari died at the age of 82. He died at the London Clinic on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He will be buried today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Garba Shehu, a former aide to late President Muhammadu Buhari, has explained why his deceased boss got into trouble with many Nigerians. Shehu stated this on Tuesday while fielding questions on Arise Television\u2019s Morning Show programme. He said Buhari got into trouble with Nigerians a lot of the time because Nigerians don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":169550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-169551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Buhari got into trouble with Nigerians - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/why-buhari-got-into-trouble-with-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Buhari got into trouble with Nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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