berem:
He ensured that turn around maintenance
(TAM) on our refineries was done by Nigerian
engineers thereby saving us foreign exchange.
He also started paying off all our debts as soon
as he in came into power, as corrupt Shehu
Shagari’s government was unable to meet any
debt repayments before they were overthrown.
By the time Buhari was overthrown he had
paid off over $4 billion of our foreign debts in
two years from the huge $15 billion Shagari
had being ill-advised to borrow, and brought
inflation down from runaway 40% to less than
5.5%. Also by the time Buhari’s regime was
usurped by IBB we were running a budget
surplus all in less than two years, the first and
only time that has happened since after the oil
boom of the 70s in Nigeria.
Since August 1985, when IBB came into power
Nigeria has always ran a budget deficit
consistently, possibly under the late Sani
Abacha we had a budget neutral once but
consistently its been a deficit. Nigerians don’t
even talk about something that is a big issue in
every serious country around the world
including Puerto Rico, where its a big political
talking point. The Nigerian budget under the
PDP since 1999 has always been a deficit
despite oil prices at an all-time high. Under
Jonathan since 2010, we’ve consistently ran a
budget deficit (which for those who don’t know
means we spend more than we earn as a
nation to the detriment of the economy and
the masses) and under Buhari we had a
budget surplus (we earn more than we spend
as a nation to the betterment of the economy
and the masses). Yet they insist Buhari is easy
to defeat, so why the fear?
I leave with feedback I got from a reader on my
last article titled: “A Closing Argument for
Buhari’s Case”. Chimezie Okezie, writing from
chimezie_hse@yahoo.co.uk, wondered why the
APC is shying away from building a fanatical
followership across the country for Buhari like
he has in the North, and why they are treating
the issue of unseating President Jonathan with
kid gloves. He advocates that the APC should
mobilise their registered members to collect
their permanent voters cards, and verify they
are doing so.
Okezie posits that the APC should start
recruiting vowed loyal members as polling
booth agents across the country and start
training them on how to counter rigging and
arm them with readily available technologies
that can be used to capture voting (declared
results) in each booth and polling unit, with
results collated in real time at the APC central
campaign coordinating office.
This would ensure that results come in live to
APC and there is no way election results can be
rigged by the PDP across the country as the
results are being collated from each polling
unit in real time by the APC, should they
deploy the technology Okezie advocates.
He finishes by saying: “If we get our act (APC,
Buhari supporters, and Nigerian masses I
believe) right, I will close my eyes, beat my
chest and tell you that Buhari has won.” This is
coming from an ordinary Nigerian. The
question I need president Jonathan’s handlers,
supporters, media supporters and the PDP to
answer is, if Buhari is easy to defeat as they
claim, why the fear?
By Ola’ Idowu, a management consultant and
researcher (frenchcoast2@gmail.com)

berem:
He ensured that turn around maintenance
(TAM) on our refineries was done by Nigerian
engineers thereby saving us foreign exchange.
He also started paying off all our debts as soon
as he in came into power, as corrupt Shehu
Shagari’s government was unable to meet any
debt repayments before they were overthrown.
By the time Buhari was overthrown he had
paid off over $4 billion of our foreign debts in
two years from the huge $15 billion Shagari
had being ill-advised to borrow, and brought
inflation down from runaway 40% to less than
5.5%. Also by the time Buhari’s regime was
usurped by IBB we were running a budget
surplus all in less than two years, the first and
only time that has happened since after the oil
boom of the 70s in Nigeria.
Since August 1985, when IBB came into power
Nigeria has always ran a budget deficit
consistently, possibly under the late Sani
Abacha we had a budget neutral once but
consistently its been a deficit. Nigerians don’t
even talk about something that is a big issue in
every serious country around the world
including Puerto Rico, where its a big political
talking point. The Nigerian budget under the
PDP since 1999 has always been a deficit
despite oil prices at an all-time high. Under
Jonathan since 2010, we’ve consistently ran a
budget deficit (which for those who don’t know
means we spend more than we earn as a
nation to the detriment of the economy and
the masses) and under Buhari we had a
budget surplus (we earn more than we spend
as a nation to the betterment of the economy
and the masses). Yet they insist Buhari is easy
to defeat, so why the fear?
I leave with feedback I got from a reader on my
last article titled: “A Closing Argument for
Buhari’s Case”. Chimezie Okezie, writing from
chimezie_hse@yahoo.co.uk, wondered why the
APC is shying away from building a fanatical
followership across the country for Buhari like
he has in the North, and why they are treating
the issue of unseating President Jonathan with
kid gloves. He advocates that the APC should
mobilise their registered members to collect
their permanent voters cards, and verify they
are doing so.
Okezie posits that the APC should start
recruiting vowed loyal members as polling
booth agents across the country and start
training them on how to counter rigging and
arm them with readily available technologies
that can be used to capture voting (declared
results) in each booth and polling unit, with
results collated in real time at the APC central
campaign coordinating office.
This would ensure that results come in live to
APC and there is no way election results can be
rigged by the PDP across the country as the
results are being collated from each polling
unit in real time by the APC, should they
deploy the technology Okezie advocates.
He finishes by saying: “If we get our act (APC,
Buhari supporters, and Nigerian masses I
believe) right, I will close my eyes, beat my
chest and tell you that Buhari has won.” This is
coming from an ordinary Nigerian. The
question I need president Jonathan’s handlers,
supporters, media supporters and the PDP to
answer is, if Buhari is easy to defeat as they
claim, why the fear?
By Ola’ Idowu, a management consultant and
researcher (frenchcoast2@gmail.com)

MrBigPrick:


My SweeetHaert Berem, Me don't give a kFuck about Buhari but Me Give a Fkuck about YOU.ME LOVE YOU ByabY Gyerl

warrior01:
Presidency fears on Buhari winning? We know he can't win; we are only concerned about the young ones especially Youth Corpers and Christians that would lose their lives. Shebi, he said monkey and baboons will be soaked in blood.

PointB:

@Op,
Did you say fear? Ever heard of the term - "Reverse Psychology"?

You should read it up!

berem:
no I haven't heard Mr. PointB. Kindly enlighten me

Reverse psychology is a technique involving the advocacy of a belief or behavior that is opposite to the one desired, with the expectation that this approach will encourage the subject of the persuasion to do what actually is desired: the opposite of what is suggested.

Rawani:
Is it not an aberration of logic to be confident of defeating Buhari and being fearful of speculated post-election violence from his supporters, when the only certain plans of such violence on record is by the mentally malnourished scare-mongerer Asari Dokubo, who has not only threatened war and threatened his own candidate to not return home if he loses, but has gone ahead to make concrete his plans by engaging in illicit arms deals aided by the bling bling pastor. Anyone who does not realize that Dokubo, Clark, Oritsejamrock and the Retardeen pose the greatest threat to peace and security post elections needs to be sent back to kindergarten to learn the uses of the five senses.

PointB:


Sire,
You make little sense!

Would you mind explaining to me the role Asari played or should have played, before, during, and after the last general election (2011) which saw the brutal murder of several young, yet promising citizens of this nation, by Buuhari supporters; citizens whose crime was simply that they served their country in Buhari's stronghold during the elections! A crime Buhari has indicated his resolve to sanction should he, as expected, lose again; a crime buhari has already plan to repeat by threatening that "dogs and baboons will be soaked in blood" ?

Rawani:


You can grasp at straws all you want, but if you understood a word of my submission, you would know that we are talking about post-election violence in the next elections, a point underlined by the obvious fact that i was responding to mumblings about possible post-election violence if the General loses. Your whole dog and baboon propaganda has been shot down and rubbished severally on this forum so i will not risk sounding like a broken record by educating you on the concept of idioms in spoken language.

Now answer this simple poser: Did Dokubo not threaten war if Jonathan loses?