President Muhammadu Buhari famously ordered people to form neat queues as part of his 1980s "War Against Indiscipline". Can he make Nigerians queue again?
During Nigeria's 2015 presidential election campaign one of the tactics used by the former President Goodluck Jonathan's campaign was to remind voters of life under President Buhari when he was a military leader in the 1980s.
Pictures of Nigerians in long queues at banks and bus stops and people being whipped by soldiers imposing Gen Buhari's so-called War Against Indiscipline were distributed in an effort to make him unelectable.
However, the anti-Buhari campaign had the opposite effect. Many Nigerians voted for him because of what they saw as his tough stance.
Thirty years after that war on indiscipline, President Buhari has unveiled a new version, this time with a toned-down name: "Change begins with me".
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