Fighting Terrorism and Corruption in Nigeria: The Buhari Leadership Model

Abstract

The terrorist activities of the Boko Ḥarām and the menace of corruption are great challenges prevalent in Nigeria. The author examines how these challenges can be addressed using the Islamic concept of Shūrā. He adopts the historical and descriptive methods to interpret the available secondary data collected from historical reports, newspapers’ sources, international sources and
governments’ accounts. The findings of the paper reveal among others, that decades of mismanagement of the national resources, failure to effectively address the problem of poverty and the inability of the government to prosecute alleged corrupt public officials and sponsors and actors in various political, ethnic and religious uprisings are responsible for the monsters of terrorism and
corruption in the country today; whereas the Shūrā framework guarantees an all-inclusive federal and democratic polity. The author concludes that Shūrā guarantees an all-inclusive polity and the absence of it in addition to some other lapses in administration today in Nigeria is responsible for the monsters of terrorism and corruption in the country.