Crude Journalism? Nigerians Demand an Apology from The Economist for Ex-President ‘Buffoon’ Insult

Nigerians have pilloried The Economist, after the magazine described former Nigerian President Dr Goodluck Jonathan as an “an ineffectual buffoon”in a recent article about the country's worsening economy.
The moment of offence was as follows:

In the eight months since Mr Buhari arrived at Aso Rock, the presidential digs, the homicidal jihadists of Boko Haram have been pushed back into the bush along Nigeria’s borders. The government has cracked down on corruption, which had flourished under the previous president, Goodluck Jonathan, an ineffectual buffoon who let politicians and their cronies fill their pockets with impunity.

Dr Goodluck Jonathan was defeated by General Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential elections last year. Jonathan's concession to his rival Buhari was an unprecedented move widely praised as keeping the peace in Africa's most populous country.
Since then Buhari's government has been battling corruption and a weak economy ever since his inauguration — legacies of Jonathan's reign as well as those of countless other administrations that went before him.
Although The Economist article focused on the effects wrought by plummeting global crude prices on a country that relies almost exclusively on oil revenues for economic growth, the publication's passing insult of Jonathan ignited a storm of indignation on social media.