This was the observation of Jenrokan Forum, an organisation for the unity, political stability and sensitizing public for continued democracy of the country at its meting in Ibadan, yesterday.
In the communique issued at the end of the meeting which was signed by Mukaila Bankole and Adebayo Shittu and which was made available to journalists, the group said the task of leading the country now "is beyond the former military leader in terms of ability and capability".
The group recalled that Buhari in his first appearance in government as a Minister of Petroleum in 1978 was not without blemish as "he left the government in 1979 with N2.8 billion", asking that "where is his transparency and accountability at the official age of 36"?
Buhari was said to have ousted democratically elected government through military coup in his second coming to government in 1983 just two weeks after he was decorated as an Army General by the same civilian President Sheu Shagari ousted by him.
"Where is his love for democracy, somebody who happened to be confirmed enemy of democratised society at the age of 40 years", the Forum asked?
The forum also recalled that when Buhari was campaigning for the presidential election in 2011 under the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) he said that would be his last presidential campaign.
But, having reneged on that promise made by him freely by his coming out again this year, Jenrokan Forum said "it shows his inconsistency and indecision to the electorate and the the entire populace of Nigeria".
The group insisted that "the arrangement in the structure of his government 32 years ago encouraged rancour, tribalism and planted religious disharmony which aided economic exploitation of Nigerian Nation state".
Calling on the electorate to support Goodluck Jonathan described as new breed and an agile politician, the Forum said President Jonathan re- election would enable him to successfully complete his laudable programmes and bring scholastic agenda to governance.
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