Let us set the records straight. As Nigerians
prepare to vote for progress and change in
the upcoming Presidential elections, it is
pertinent certain popular statements
attributed to chief opposition candidate,
General Muhammadu Buhari are set straight for
God and man.
Firstly, did General Buhari ever say he or they will
make Nigeria ungovernable?
The answer to this is a resounding, NO!
In an earlier write-up we carefully researched this
inflammatory statement and discovered that it was
made by a then PDP politician, Lawal Kaita from
Kaduna. This is why the late NSA, Andrew Owoye
Azazi said that it was internal PDP politics and their
squabbles on zoning/rotation of the Presidency that
led to the “sudden sophistication of Boko Haram.” It
was within PDP that the discussion of rotation of
the presidency came up, and Lawal Kaita was
perturbed with Jonathan’s decision to continue late
Umaru Yar’Adua’s term in violation of the parties
zoning policy. This was when Jonathan promised to
only contest/occupy the top spot one additional
term (in addition to his completing Yar’Adua’s term)
and also when some northern PDP stalwarts and
party founders threatened to make Nigeria
ungovernable. There was no such confusion in
Buhari’s CPC and thus no need and reason for such
inflammatory pronouncements from his quarters.
When Reuben Abati spun this statement upon the
person of Buhari, the General took him to court for
libel and the court judgment as awarded in Buhari’s
favor. Buhari dragged Abati and The Guardian to
court via suit no. ID/837/2011 and demanded
N1billion damages. President Goodluck Jonathan
then begged Buhari to settle out-of-court. See in
DailyPost of January 13th, 2013: http://
dailypost.ng/2013/01/13/presidency-begs-buhari-to-
settle-slander-case-out-of-court/. The empathetic
General agreed and Reuben Abati and the Guardian
where the libelous article was published were
made to publish an unreserved retraction of the
slander against Buhari which they did in the
Guardian of July 11, 2013. This is why Reuben Abati
is called Nigeria’s evil genius. Our full article on this
with all references can be read here on ENDS.ng:
http://ends.ng/fact-it-was-pdp-that-promised-to-
make-nigeria-ungovernable-in-2011-buhari-never-
did/
Did General Buhari promise election riots in 2011?
The answer to this is again, NO!
General Buhari never prescribed riots or made any
threat related to such in regards to the 2011
elections. He took the case of election rigging to
court and never made a single statement
containing threats in relation to it. The Lemu panel
investigation of the post-election riots cleared the
General of any guilt of complicity. The General
released an exemplary press statement on the
court’s ruling which can be read on
SaharaReporters of December 28, 2011: http://
saharareporters.com/2011/12/28/statement-
general-muhammadu-buhari-regarding-verdict-
supreme-court-jonathans-election
Buhari did however state that if 2015 was a repeat
of the rigging on 2011, there will be a fierce fight He
used the kare jini biri jinni Hausa proverb, which
roughly cuts as ‘the dog and baboon will be soaked
in the same blood,’ but is an idiom which means,
there will be a real battle- could be legal; could be
protests or any other battle, as this is a mere
proverbial statement. Of course those who wished
to paint this statement with the ‘blood’ contained in
it did so eagerly as we see they have done in many
other of his statements and statements attributed
to him. Read more on the idiom here, by Dr. Aliyu
Tilde on PremiumTimes: http://
www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/5195-
buhari_vs_pdp_the_dog_and_the_baboon.html
The third hallmark statement attributed to the
General: did Buhari ever say that a war on Boko
Haram was a war against the north?
The answer to this statement as with the rest is a
resounding, NO!
Why are all these false statements attributed to
Buhari? Well, for one reason the General is rather
not that outspoken and is a man of extreme
patience and tolerance who evidently only used
legal means to redress the libel and false
accusations against him planed and sponsored by
the Presidency.
So what did General Buhari say in 2013?
He said, the institution of a State of Emergency in
Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states was a declaration
of war on the north of Nigeria.
He did not say that fighting Boko Haram was a
declaration of war against the north; no, after all he
fought and destroyed not only Maitatsine terrorists,
but also the Habre fanatical forces of Chad. He
clearly understands the need of a real war against
terror; he however saw that Nigeria’s President and
the then army Chief, General Azubuike Ihejirika
who has been labeled a Boko Haram sponsor by
my organization, ENDS and Boko Haram negotiator,
Stephen Davis, were not fighting any real war
against the terrorists but were silently facilitating
the continued reign of terror and seeking all means
to destroy the northeast as it is today.
When Buhari wiped out Maitatsine in Adamawa
state, he did not need to declare any phony state of
emergency. He did not declare one either when he
expelled the Habre Chadian forces from the 19
Nigerian occupied Islands in the northeast.
Today the entire Nigeria saw the wisdom of elder
statesman Buhari’s position against the declaration
of the state of emergency and the senate thereby
refused to extend the more harmful than good
emergency rule that failed to yield meaningful
results since it was instituted in May of 2013.
I as a proponent of the State of Emergency in 2013
and one of those who canvassed and pushed for it
did not quite agree with the General at the time but
now I understand his reservations and how this
declaration and all others by the President
including his recent cessation of fire have all been
declarations of war against the Nigerian people,
particularly those being decimated and displaced in
the northeast by French foreign forces being
organized and directed from Idris Deby’s Chad.
In conclusion, the Jonathan government who
without any investigation exonerated MEND who
had claimed responsibility for the October 1st 2010
Abuja bomb attack, since then decided to pick on
General Muhammadu Buhari, his most formidable
perceived opponent and in so doing allowed and as
some say, actually supported Boko Haram’s
continued existence and carnage while his evil
genius press and media men and the Femi twins
continued to spew slander upon slander and libel
upon libel against the person of Buhari, spinning
his every proverb out of context, publishing twisted
versions of his every word and even reflecting
other people’s statements upon him.

Source? -
http://naijaparrot.com/30944/

i dont care whether he said it or not,
Buhari will never rule Nigeria again.

We only know GEJ.

It cannot be stated an better.