Gamji007: .

Please go through your comments again and tell us you are not sick upstairs and are desperately in need of help!

Similarly, Jonathan asked Buhari to emulate the role he ( Jonathan) played by going to meet militants in their vast hideouts in the Niger Delta to plead with them to lay down their arms and accept the general amnesty granted by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on June 25, 2009.

Gooogle:

On a lighter note, I must commend Wesley and the remaining laptop dogs, they have tried but their pay masters keep making their jobs difficult by the day. If you study their pattern of response on NL in the past few mweeks, you will see a pattern of mental and psychological inbalance and disorder.They are kinda running amok.No be all work be work I tell you.I really pity them.

Maxymilliano:

Okupe is silly for coming out with this press release, he should have known it is not everything that come within your earshot you react to, when silence can be golden, even more as the President media aide.

And in actual fact, the quoted gibberish above is more harm to the President, than good.

General Buhari is a stakeholder as far as the entity called Nigeria is concerned, he enjoys inalienable rights to voice out his reservation(s), whenever and wherever he deem fits and I don"t see how his 'opinion' should be guided, or subjected to Presidential dictum.

Granted he has a role to play in the current restiveness in the north, General Buhari is not duty-bound to condemn Boko haram or visit Borno State to condole the Christians or Muslims that have been killed as Okupe said.

For him to come this far joining issues with a private individual airing his opinion on a selected platform smack of desperation to please, and an all time low in my opinion.

Going further with his 'Bole Kaja' conjectures to claim "Everybody knows that it was General Buhari, who vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Jonathan if he loses the last presidential election. It was in Minna, that he said that once votes are countered and he loses that people should go for blood clearly shows Okupe has outlived his usefulness in the Presidency.

General Buhari is a respected figure in the polity, irrespective of his perceived failings, and it will be wrong for dubious character like Okupe to make attempt at running down his personality just for the sake of it.

take dat: Cheap blackmail and tissues of lies from an habitual liar who speaks on behalf of a government that is pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility. If there are concrete evidence that he is behind the BH scourge, why not prosecute him instead of this campaign of calumny, looking for a fall guy? Is Government trying to abdicate her responsibility of securing lives and properties to the Same Buhari who is accused of being behind the menace? Okupe should tell Nigerians if it was Buhari who granted the likes of Ndume bail, and if he is the reason why Modu Sherrif still remains a free man? Why not send his deputy(Sambo) to do the same just as Yaradua did with him in brokering peace with the ND militants?

wesley80:

Like I said, Introspection is a luxury for the cloistered. I do not expect my write up to make the least sense to you or the rest of Buhari's goats and chickens.

Suntzung: NA ONLY SMALL THING YOU SEE, THE FG PLANS TO USE THE BOKO CRISES TO;

1. CRIPPLE NORTHERN NIGERIA ECONOMICALLY AND OTHERWISE
2. HARASS AND BLACKMAIL OPPOSITION FIGURE
3. SACK AND DISMISS TOP NORTHERN ECHO LITE IN THE GOVERNMENT ESPECIALLY THE MILITARY
4. CHEAP POLITICAL BLACKMAIL TO CONTINUE THEIR RULE
5. IMPLEMENT US GLOBAL AGENDA AGAINST MUSLIMS
6. DEPOPULATE THE CORE NORTH THRU MASS KILLINGS
7. POLITICIZE AND POLARIZE THE MILITARY AND SECURITY SYSTEMS
8.
9.
10.
11...

......AND FINALLY AFTER ACHIEVING ALL THOSE, THEY WOULD SEND THE REMAINS OF DILAPIDATED CORE NORTH TO NIGER REPUBLIC !

wazobia_for_u: I got your message, trying to tanish the image of Buhari against 2015 indirectly

Is Buhari above the law to be prosecuted? If he is the one behind the BH menace

Why GEJ never met with Buhari to discuss the issue till when Buhari voice out?

Buhari was relevant in the past office and Sambo is more relevant now, why not send sambo that is in the same shoe with GEJ when he went for the ND peace dialogue

** the ringing tone Gej is sending to Nigerian is that he can not solve the BH problem as the president but he will keep promising us and given us (void) date to end it**

* i keep saying that Gej always take his vomit and play kids politics,most of the 40 lapdogs that keep shouting no amnest bcus your boss said that, did you read DIALOGUE from the message above?

Gej may have good intention but Nigeria is too big for him to handle with too much godfathers that he cant step on their toes and that wont make him fulfilled.

So he should please step aside.

luluosas:
If that is your position then, where will you place IBB, Shagari and Abdulsalam? Is Buhari now the only former Head of State and Northern leader alive?

honeric01:

I believe you're educated and you know what "quote" means? i am not among the "everybody knows", so kindly quote for me where BUHARI (not everybody or okupe) made that statement, the papers, the date, where and if possible with audio or video evidence. with this, i think the security agents should have him arrested if you can come up with all these.

Symphony007: asking ordinary citizens? So a former nigeria head of state who is also a prominent muslium, widely respected by his people and who they'll listen to is now "an ordinary citizen"? I don't know how narrow minded you're but this how government works, all hands on deck to solve national problems, that is how it is done worldwide and buharu's response to this will determine how matured he really is.

Pataki:

I hope the moderators are taking note that you are instigating tribalism with this claptrap of yours.

And not only that, your repeated idiotic statement on every thread and topic here is spamming!

Kamsy10:

You've bn on nl since 2007 and very active as well so pls stop d pretence.
Maybe you should wait for him to deny it first before we start a new conversation

Kamsy10:

Last time I checked, somebody vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable. So why GEJ fix what he ddnt start

Dospix: Jonathan to Buhari: Stop Boko Haram


ABUJA— President Goodluck Jonathan, Tuesday, sent a strong message to former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, pleading with him to spearhead the campaign to persuade members of the Boko Haram sect to accept dialogue, as a means of ending the orgy of violence in the North.

Similarly, Jonathan asked Buhari to emulate the role he ( Jonathan) played by going to meet militants in their vast hideouts in the Niger Delta to plead with them to lay down their arms and accept the general amnesty granted by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on June 25, 2009.
Jonathan and Buhari

Jonathan and Buhari

Jonathan said he expected Buhari to lead the way in persuading the Boko Haram insurgents in the North to stop bombings and enter into dialogue with the Federal Government with a view to ending the violence in the region, which is threatening to disrupt the economy of the region and Nigeria.

The President, who sent the message to Buhari through his Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, accused the former head of state of making false allegations against him during his interview in London last week.

What Buhari told BBC in London

During the interview with the BBC, Buhari had said that the Federal Government should be held responsible for the worsening state of insecurity in Nigeria, accusing the leadership of not taking steps to halt the slide, which has claimed many lives and property in the region.

Buhari said: “The problem of terrorism is not confined to the North alone. Insecurity generally should be blamed on the Federal Government.

“The world is very much concerned about two things — the issue of security and economic wellbeing of a nation. Security is number one. A nation can only be economically viable if there is security. But how did all these crises start? How did the crises begin and assume this dimension?

“Until now, everyday, they abduct people and receive ransoms. How was the problem reduced? How did it start? What method was employed to convince them to mellow down?

“Similarly, what we should look at is, how did the Boko Haram start? We know all these. Security is the responsibility of the government.

“It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to know how this thing started and how to go about it.”

Jonathan takes on Buhari

But Okupe asked Nigerians to demand from Buhari what he had done as a leader in the North and a former head of state to halt the attacks by the sect.

He said: “Nigerians should ask him (Buhari) that as a former Head of state and as someone who wants to be president again, what he has done to end this insurgence in the country.

“Or is it when he becomes President, he will stop the insurgence? No, it does not work that way. He should emulate President Jonathan who went to the creeks of the Niger Delta canvassing peace and dialogue with the militants of the Niger Delta.

“Everybody knows that it was General Buhari, who vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Jonathan if he loses the last presidential election. It was in Minna, that he said that once votes are countered and he loses that people should go for blood. He said in Hausa language. General Buhari is the person who sowed the wind that the nation is now reaping in whirlwind.

“He is not in any position to apportion blames on the issue of violence in the North or in Nigeria in general. He is a protagonist of violence. The only position he sees for not being the President is to call for violence. This government has tried as much as possible to contain some of Buhari’s unguarded statements. I don’t think anybody in Nigeria will take Buhari very serious when he makes such comments.

“If there is anybody to blame, General Buhari comes number one on that list. Have you ever seen General Buhari visit BornoState or condemn the acts of the Boko Haram or condole whether Christians or Muslims that have been killed?

“A man who can traverse the whole length and breadth of Nigeria, yet he cannot use that clout that he has and get leaders together to put an end to the insurgence in the country. And yet he finds it comfortable to blame other people. What has he done as a former Head of State to help Nigeria and Nigerians stop the militancy in the North or in other parts of the country?”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/jonathan-to-buhari-stop-boko-haram/


Lets wait and see if Buhari will eventually curtail the boko haram menace.

wesley80:

You actually should be feeling more sorry for yourself. Aligning with a fundamentalist and extremist leader relishing the use of human extermination by his supporters questions the very essence of humanity. But sadly, I do not expect lost souls like you to understand what I'm talking about.

honeric01:

And who actually said this? when? where? any quote? video or audio evidence? why is this person still walking free?

kingoflag:

Youre either slow or just been deceptive. Buhari should stop the same people GEJ (Commander-In-Chief of Nigeria's Armed Forces) has called: "My Brothers", "Ghosts" and claimed has infiltrated his Government?

GEJ has messed everything up, be a man and accept that and stop trying to apportion blame.

figment232: D BASTARD BUHARI is trying play dats why he s been pin pointed

take dat: Cheap blackmail and tissues of lies from an habitual liar who speaks on behalf of a government that is pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility. If there are concrete evidence that he is behind the BH scourge, why not prosecute him instead of this campaign of calumny, looking for a fall guy? Is Government trying to abdicate her responsibility of securing lives and properties to the Same Buhari who is accused of being behind the menace? Okupe should tell Nigerians if it was Buhari who granted the likes of Ndume bail, and if he is the reason why Modu Sherrif still remains a free man? Why not send his deputy(Sambo) to do the same just as Yaradua did with him in brokering peace with the ND militants?

Symphony007: that is why common sense is not common, my closing statement is the crux of this matter, "how matured he really is" if jonathan as you claimed has been an amature in handling boko haram does it not create a cahance for buhari to step in and look like the adult in the room? This will up his national profile and make him look more presidential to skeptical nigerians. But alas nigerians don't see the bigger picture in everything and alow pride not common sense to cloud the mind.

luluosas:
My brother, it was the Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar while quoting Martin Lutter King Junior, during the 2011 PDP Presidential primaries at Eagle Square, Abuja.

Suntzung: NA ONLY SMALL THING YOU SEE, THE FG PLANS TO USE THE BOKO CRISES TO;

1. CRIPPLE NORTHERN NIGERIA ECONOMICALLY AND OTHERWISE
2. HARASS AND BLACKMAIL OPPOSITION FIGURE
3. SACK AND DISMISS TOP NORTHERN ECHO LITE IN THE GOVERNMENT ESPECIALLY THE MILITARY
4. CHEAP POLITICAL BLACKMAIL TO CONTINUE THEIR RULE
5. IMPLEMENT US GLOBAL AGENDA AGAINST MUSLIMS
6. DEPOPULATE THE CORE NORTH THRU MASS KILLINGS
7. POLITICIZE AND POLARIZE THE MILITARY AND SECURITY SYSTEMS
8.
9.
10.
11...

......AND FINALLY AFTER ACHIEVING ALL THOSE, THEY WOULD SEND THE REMAINS OF DILAPIDATED CORE NORTH TO NIGER REPUBLIC !

Symphony007: asking ordinary citizens? So a former nigeria head of state who is also a prominent muslium, widely respected by his people and who they'll listen to is now "an ordinary citizen"? I don't know how narrow minded you're but this how government works, all hands on deck to solve national problems, that is how it is done worldwide and buharu's response to this will determine how matured he really is.

Symphony007: if jonathan has been such a amatuer when it comes to boko haram, why does'nt buhari take up the mantel and look like the adult in the room, do you know what that will do for his national profile? It's common sense except he knows the reason why it's not possible to negociate with boko haram.