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Nigeria has had its fair share of leaders who left office with more curses than praises.

Anna Ajayi
Anna Ajayi
If there’s one thing that unites Nigerians across ethnic, religious, and political lines, it’s our collective anger towards politicians who have made life unbearable for the average citizen.

Many of these politicians stole billions without shame, others turned the country into their personal ATM. A few even had the audacity to rule with an iron fist while ordinary Nigerians suffered.

These leaders are so terrible that their legacies are stained with the tears of the people they failed.


1. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Jagaban of suffering

No Nigerian leader has ever been as universally loathed in such a record time as Tinubu. We’ll be right to say he’s the most hated president in living memory.

Within months of his May 2023 inauguration, the "Renewed Hope" slogan became a cruel joke as he unleashed the most painful economic policies in decades. The overnight removal of fuel subsidies wasn't just poorly executed, it was economic arson, instantly tripling transportation costs and skyrocketing food prices.

Then came the naira devaluation that wiped out savings and crippled countless businesses. But what truly enrages Nigerians is the tone-deafness. Spending millions on the presidential jet while claiming "subsidy is gone", or urging citizens to "endure suffering" while he globe-trots, feels like a slap in the face. And let’s not even get started on the billions in taxpayer money spent on solar power, while the rest of the country continues to endure epileptic power supply and constant grid collapses.

It’s quite unfortunate that Tinubu has somehow made Nigerians feel nostalgic for the Buhari years.

https://www.pulse.ng/articles/news/politics/most-hated-politicians-in-nigerian-history-2025051510135324375

2. Muhammadu Buhari



When Buhari took office in 2015, Nigerians were desperate for change after Jonathan's lacklustre istration. The "Sai Baba" movement wasn't just political , it was a national prayer for deliverance.

Citizens celebrated his victory with the hope that this time, things would be different. But within two years, that hope curdled into bitter regret. This was supposed to be the disciplined military general who would fix Nigeria, but instead became "Baba Go Slow", a painfully ironic nickname for a man who moved at snail's pace while Nigeria burned.

Under his watch, insecurity spread like wildfire, with bandits operating like parallel governments in the Northwest. The economy nosedived into two recessions, yet his government kept borrowing until our debt profile ballooned to trillions of naira.

By 2022, even his most ardent ers couldn't defend the unaffordable fuel prices, crumbling naira, and ASUU strikes that kept students home for eight months! When he left office in 2023, many Nigerians were relieved that his torturous eight years were over, not knowing the worst was yet to come.


3. Good luck Jonathan


4. 4. General Sani Abacha

5. 5. Ibrahim Babangida

Jagaban remain the most hated

Ok

Yet the most voted.
Loved by been voted for as President. Yet hated for still remaining the President

All Nigerian president are the most hated while in power!


The writer no get sense

Based on the writers perspective not mine.

I don't like this article. Did you notice that it is written in descending order? So what you are saying is that after Tinubu, Babangida would have dropped from the top 5 and another President will push Tinubu to Number 2

Jonathan was a good and rational man. His only crime was being weak & good to the Northerners.

APC + terrorists did a collabo to get to him but an old crooked nigha like Wike wouldn't give a fvck about burning Nigeria to the ground.

So IBB and Abacha are/were also politicians. The Op definitely needs mental examination.

As for JAGABAN, even his enemies wants to be like him

Kaido:
Jonathan was a good and rational man. His only crime was being weak & good to the Northerners.

APC + terrorists did a collabo to get to him but an old crooked nigha like Wike wouldn't give a fvck about burning Nigeria to the ground.

You have contradicted yourself my mentioning Nyezom Project Wike there, when all the hawks gathered to feed on the dumb Goatluck Jonathan and his illiterate cantankerous garrulus wife imPatience Jonathan, it was only Wike that took on the whole Nigeria.

For the sake of Goatluck Jonathan, Nyezom Wike took on Olusegun Obasanjo, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Mumumodu Buhari, Atikulation Abubakar, IBB, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Rotimi Judas Amaechi, Bukola Mesujamba Saraki and others. Wike gave Goatluck Jonathan 1.4 million fake votes in Rivers State alone even when the number of people that voted was less than 100K. It is unfortunate that it is the same Wike that you children of hatred and bitterness now hate so much, but thank God, Wike no send all of una.

Most hated yet all of them has ruled Nigeria


Make una hate me then if it's gonna do me great 😃