Demdem2:

Name them. I know bayelsa well enough.

LeStylo:

Even the OP was skewed along same lines until he thought it through and analysed things more carefully.

LeStylo:

Even the OP was skewed along same lines until he thought it through and analysed things more carefully.

atlwireles:

Good market for APC, bad market for Nigeria. That's why Nigerians, will do what, they have done three times before. Reject him at the polls again.

Obiagelli:
nice videos, thanks.

Rexxie:
what sorta question is this,were u in mars when that happened? those chasing lunatics n murderers threatened to kill them cops n burn down da station n those equally janjaweeeds coppas cowardly threw the innocent n now hopeless n helpless corpers out to their doom! its either u wanna tell me u didnt hear or read'bout that or u were actually da one somewhere drunk..
#4kn NO2janjaweeeds Buhari...

Iykopee: Who still lives by the dynamism of 1983 to adjudge matters of 2014? @ OP, repot ur psyche. This was how OBJ came from prison, when comparing his pedigree, he was thought a good man. Finally we saw the worst of him after 8yrs. repackaging buhari through 1983 play-act, is a sinistic ploy to cone Nigerians yet anoda time. He's not better than the devil i know.

LeStylo:

My pleasure ma'am. Too sad we've got a whole generation that does not read, i could have recommended some books too.

SeaGold:

I worked with a major contractor in Bayelsa, I was also close to Engr. Olice kemenagbo the helmsman at the power section then and we were all directly involve in top notch projects under Jonathan Administration then. So if u wanna see those projects, Holla me

Let me at this point attempt to make you understand the premise upon which it became necessary to change the leadership. The principles of discussions, consultation and co-operation which should have guided decision-making process of the Supreme Military Council and the Federal Executive Council were disregarded soon after the government settled down in 1984. Where some of us thought it appropriate to give a little more time, anticipating a conducive atmosphere that would develop, in which affairs of state could be attended to with greater sense of responsibility, it became increasingly clear that such expectations could not be fulfilled.

Regrettably, it turned out that [size=15pt]Major-General Muhammadu Buhari was too rigid and uncompromising in his attitudes to issues of national significance.[/size] Efforts to make him understand that a diverse polity like Nigeria required recognition and appreciation of differences in both cultural and individual perceptions, only served to aggravate these attitudes.

Iykopee: Who still lives by the dynamism of 1983 to adjudge matters of 2014? @ OP, repot ur psyche. This was how OBJ came from prison, when comparing his pedigree, he was thought a good man. Finally we saw the worst of him after 8yrs. repackaging buhari through 1983 play-act, is a sinistic ploy to cone Nigerians yet anoda time. He's not better than the devil i know.

barcanista: GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI
[img]http://3.bp..com/-Mi992cR6Fzg/Ua3cJwU0WrI/AAAAAAAAidw/FyPl-xKu7Yg/s400/buhari.jpg[/img]
ECONOMY
Inherited a dwindling economy,
1. Paid of $50m loan within few days of assumption and cleared the country's debt
2. Reduced Inflation from 23% to 3.21% within 20months.
3. Nigeria's GDP by Purchasing Power Parity was $941.2, it Grew by 8.56 %
3. Refused to devalue the Naira
4. curbing imports of needless goods, curtailing oil theft and using counter trade policy to barter seized illegally bunkered crude oil for needful goods like machineries, enabling it to export above its OPEC quota.
5. Under Buhari, Hoarded Goods were Sold at prices below market.

CORRUPTION:
1. Senator Sabo Bakin Zuwo, The Civilian Governor of Kano State was jailed for 300Years because $4.5 million was said to be found "stacked up" in Zuwo's home when it was searched by the new military government. He died in 1989
2. Vice President Alex Ekwueme was jailed of corruption. Stockpiles of money ranged from $56,000 found at his home
3. Fmr Bendel Governor Ambrose Alli was jailed for 100years for misappropriating funds belonging to Bendel State to the tune of N983,000. The Money was meant for road project but he donated it to his Party. He was later freed when Sir Gabriel Igbenedion paid fine to the Government.
4. A total of 4000 exGovernment officials submitted themselves to be tried for Corruption.Over 600 were Jailed Convicted and Jailed.
5. Many High profile Government officials, Businessmen, foreigners were jailed for one corrupt practice or the other.
6. Political office Holders, Businessmen, Contractors, civil servants and many others shunned corruption like a Plague

INSURGENCY
1. Maitatsine Group founded by Maitatsine Marwa, a Koranic scholar, rejected the hadith and the sunnah and regarded the reading of any other book but the Koran as paganism raised its head in 1979 during the Administration of President Shehu Shagari after he was contained by the Murtala and Obasanjo Administrations. Maitatsine spoke against the use of radios, watches, bicycles, cars and the possession of more money than necessary. Churches, Market, Police Formations, Government buildings etc was attacked leaving over FIVE thousand dead btw 1979 and 1981 (including Maitatsine).The Group moved to Kano, Borno, Kaduna, Gombe and environs. Over 4,000 people died(65% were insurgents). Buhari Crushed the Insurgency COMPLETELY within 16months. The 2i/c fled to Cameroon and was arrested in 2004.

OTHER SECURITY
1. There was high rate of armed robbery during Shagari's regime. Buhari stepped it, brought an end to armed robbery.
2. Introduced NURTW to checkmate "One Chance" and subsequently brought law and order.
3. Drug traffikers were executed.

PETROLEUM INFRASTRUCTURE
1. As NNPC Chairman, He was the man that Initiated and signed the construction contract of the existing Warri and Kaduna refineries. Two of the ONLY 3 Refineries In Nigeria. As at that time, Nigeria had just 1 Refinery-Portharcourt Refinery, established in 1965.

THE PRESS
He Instituted decree 2 and Decree 4 that was aimed at gaging the Press and Banned street protests. This is his only low but he was honest in his actions.

N/B: I deliberately refused to including Road Projects and others so as not to make it too bulky and boring.

barcanista: Amen @ emboldened. And he will also Judge the one that refused to protect the people he swore to protect despite all the Billions. AMEN

nigerianvenom:

and may ur life be run the way buhari ran nigeria in the 80s

TribalEAST: I'll pick security to discuss on. How safe were nigerians during but regimes? How strong was the nigerian military during both regimes? How many dangerous sects sprung up during both regimes?

BrosPeter: [size=13pt]General Ibrahim Babangida's Coup Speech August 27 , 1985[/size]



Am afraid Buhari hasn't learned anything.

Iykopee: Who still lives by the dynamism of 1983 to adjudge matters of 2014? @ OP, repot ur psyche. This was how OBJ came from prison, when comparing his pedigree, he was thought a good man. Finally we saw the worst of him after 8yrs. repackaging buhari through 1983 play-act, is a sinistic ploy to cone Nigerians yet anoda time. He's not better than the devil i know.

"Buhari enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition"
- Prof Wole Soyinka on Buhari's attempt to rule Nigeria again in this democratic dispensation

Obiagelli:
too rigid to allow corruption? Lol, Speech of a thief.

Rexxie:
Including those who promised to make da country ungorvenable if da born2rule maniacs didnt land their parasitic arsses at aso rock. Amen

enigmaotr:
Believe me, Nigerians are not safer now than we were then. The military is very strong during their rule. And Maitasine is as deadly are Boko Haram of today!

Obiagelli:
while the whole area was burning, the police stayed in their stations and later threw out victims?

Those officers are still in uniforms today? Perfect definition of incompetence.

barcanista: WhY not tell us what JONATHAN has done? I created a Thread for that

OrlandoOwoh: I'm getting tired of Jonathan's supporters. They appear to be more clueless than him, and keep making me to lose interest in the politics section because of their baseless argument.

OrlandoOwoh:
Post them here for everybody to see.

LeStylo:

Thanks Barcanista. I think i found myself in same shoes with you. And the more i researched about the frail man, the more i respect and admire him. One of the more glaring evidence of GMB's stance as a HOS is the exerpt from Prof Aliu Mazrui's award-winning documentary - The Africans shot few months into his ascent to power in 1984. I saw it in secondary school and had always wanted to see it again. Youtube to my rescue!

Only 2 examples herein - no stories, no bullsh*t.
1. 5yrs into Shagari's rule, 20% of our total crude oil disappears under mysterious conditions. Fortunes were made by falsifying the record of crude in our reserves or reporting wrong proportion of water, the govt set up a combined team of secret policemen, petroleum officials, naval police and the army. Each watching on each other to ensure there's no fraud! This was a part of a new set of laws to restore sanity in the oil sector called "PetroCrime".
See Video below 3.10-5.15mins

2. The next scene is a popular TV advert run by the govt as part of the WAI campaign. Federal auditors were moving from one govt agency to another to audit records. There suddenly came a season of arson where public offices were bursting up in flames mysteriously. The advert message is simple ad straightforward.
"FRAUD WILL FETCH YOU A LONG SENTENCE
ARSON WILL FETCH YOU DEATH"
See Video below 5.15-5.37mins
Lest we forget, the NFF HQ only bursted into mysterious flames barely 2wks ago. The circumstances remain suspicious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbrupq6s_Rw

Sincere9gerian: "Buhari enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition"
- Prof Wole Soyinka on Buhari's attempt to rule Nigeria again in this democratic dispensation