Buhari was Nigeria's Military Head of State from 1983 to 1985.

According to Falana, a metro line project which had the potential to solve and modernize the mass transit challenge Lagos is currently grappling with, was killed by Buhari.

In 1983, General Buhari cancelled the $200m metro line contract signed by then Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande.

As Falana tells it, “We had paid $200m and there was a penalty that if the contract was cancelled, Nigeria would pay colossally. We were dragged to arbitration. I don’t remember the figure now, but we were fined. So, metro line, we don’t have; money we have lost and inconvenience has continued since then.

“So, we also have a right, if we are organised in a civilized manner, to demand from the Abuja people, ‘You must pay back the cost of that metro line that you cancelled; so that we can restore it.”

After three previous attempts, Buhari won the 2015 presidential election to become civilian president. He won re-election in 2019 for a constitutionally permissible second term in office and refers to himself as a converted democrat these days.

Amid violent protests, the Lagos state government insists that its recent decision to restrict the commercial motorcyclists to the outskirts of the city is irreversible.