THE presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)
has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to
deploy more soldiers and other security operatives in the troubled North-East ravaged by Boko Haram insurgents rather than keep them for the 2015 general elections.

Buhari, who made this call during a meeting with
stakeholders of Ogoni ethnic nationality in the Tai
Local Government Area of Rivers State on Thursday, also said that, if voted into power, his administration would implement the report of the United Nations Environment Programme on the clean-up of Ogoniland.

He argued that the Boko Haram onslaught would
have been a thing of the past if the Federal
Government had moved the number of soldiers,
police and operatives of the State Security Service
deployed during elections to Borno and Yobe states as well as the other areas affected by insurgency.

He said, “I have made this comment before and the Federal Government refused to react to it; the number of soldiers, policemen and officers of the State Security Services they deploy during elections, if they had deployed them to Borno and Yobe states to fight Boko Haram, by now, Boko Haram would have been history.

“Boko Haram is not a religious group; Boko Haram is not an ethnic group. Boko Haram is a terrorist group. They attack people in schools, they attack people in Churches, they attack people in Mosques, they attack people in markets, and they shout Allahu Akbah ! No religion rejoices over the blood of innocent people.”

The former Head of State promised that he would
put an end to the pollution in Ogoniland if elected as the President of the country during the February 14 election.

Buhari reiterated his promise to fight terrorism,
corruption and other forms of crimes, if elected
President.

Earlier, the Director-General of the Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Organisation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, had asked President Jonathan to explain to Nigerians and the world why he had refused to implement the UNEP report on the clean-up of Ogoniland.

Amaechi said the President’s hatred for the people of Ogoni could be responsible for his inability to implement the UNEP report since the funds that would be used to clean up Ogoniland would come from Shell Petroleum Company. “Let President Goodluck Jonathan tell us why he has not allowed the implementation of the UNEP report. He has no reason. The money to be spent in the implementation of the report is not his; the money belongs to Shell,” he said.

www.punchng.com/news/deploy-soldiers-against-bharam-not-for-elections-buhari/

Simple strategy a primary school pupil can adopt if given leadership, but clueless GEJ would never think even close to that. And at the same time stupidly looking for my Vote

Buhari: Military Offensive against Boko Haram, Anti-north

03 Jun 2013

Opposes emergency rule
By John Shiklam in Kaduna

Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) National Leader, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has criticised the declaration of state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States and the subsequent military offensive against the Boko Haram Islamic sect.
Buhari, who featured on the “Guest of the Week,” a Hausa programme of the Kaduna-based Liberty Radio, yesterday said the federal government’s action was a gross injustice against the north.


According to him, unlike the special treatment the federal government gave to the Niger Delta militants, the Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished.
He said he was not in support of the declaration of state of emergency in the three north-eastern states because President Goodluck Jonathan had failed from the outset in addressing the security situation in the country.


Besides, Buhari added that the security challenges facing the country started in the Niger Delta region where he alleged that politicians desperate to retain their positions as governors recruited youths and armed them to enable them win elections by force.
According to Buhari, who fielded questions in Hausa language before the English version of the programme, “What is responsible for the security situation in the country was caused by the activities of Niger Delta militants.


“Every Nigerian that is familiar with what happened knows this. The Niger Delta militants started it all. What happened is that the governors of the Niger Delta region at that time wanted to win their elections, so they recruited the youths and gave them guns and bullets and used them against their opponents to win elections by force.
“After the elections were over, they asked the boys to return the guns, the boys refused to return the guns. Because of that, the allowance that was being given to the youths by the governors during that time was stopped.


“The youths resorted to kidnapping oil workers and were collecting dollars as ransom. Now a boy of 18 to 20 years was getting about $500 in a week, why will he go to school and spend 20 years to study and then come back and get employed by government to be paid N100,000 a month; that is if he is lucky to get employment?


“So kidnapping became very rampant in the south-south and the south-east. They kidnapped people and were collecting money.
“How did Boko Haram start? We know that their leader, Mohammed Yusuf, started his militancy and the police couldn’t control them and the army was invited. He was arrested by soldiers and handed over to the police.


“The appropriate thing to do, according to the law, was for the police to carry out investigations and charge him to court for prosecution, but they killed him, his in-law was killed, they went and demolished their houses.
“Because of that, his supporters resorted to what they are doing today.
“You see in the case of the Niger Delta militants, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua sent an airplane to bring them, he sat down with them and discussed with them, they were cajoled, and they were given money and granted amnesty.
“They were trained in some skills and were given employment, but the ones in the north are being killed and their houses demolished. They are different issues, what brought this? It is injustice.”


Buhari also explained why he joined politics after his release from detention by former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, saying that his close associates and those who knew him very well convinced him to join partisan politics.


He said those who knew him, knew that he took on positions of responsibility without begging anyone for appointments.
“I was a military governor in a state that has been divided into six states today; I was minister of petroleum for four years and six months. I was a military head of state. But because these people know how I live my life, they were not coming to beg me for money. They were coming to ask me to comment on issues that affected the nation,” he added.


He said further that the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 also shaped his attitude to politics.
“When I joined partisan politics in April 2002, in my ward in Daura, (Katsina State), they kept on coming. And then one significant thing at the global level happened, the Soviet Union collapsed.
“Out of the Soviet Union, there are now about 18 or 19 republics and that conclusively proved to me as an individual that the multi-party system is the best form of democracy, but with the big caveat that elections must be free and fair. That is how I arrived in CPC today, but first from APP to ANPP to CPC," he said.


Buhari lamented that God has blessed Nigeria with human and natural resources, but “we have failed to organise ourselves”, stressing that one of the problems bedevilling the country is bad leadership.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/buhari-military-offensive-against-boko-haram-anti-north/149256/

Over 9000 fully armed soldiers, dss, police for Ekitit elections.

Less than required in Borno,Yobe,Adamawa less armed to face bokoHaram Insurgency.


What does that tell u of a Commander-In-chief

Let the government deploy troops both for Boko haram and election, We don't want to hear any stories of killing and maiming of Innocent citizens; especially corpers this time around by those savages in the north.

Clueless and illiterate man


We are fearful of the outcome of you loosing 2015 election than boko haram cus boko haram can strike and kill few but thousands will be killed in a twinkle of an eye if you don't achieve your desperation.

Elections are just two days. The nation needs peace across all the 36 states. Thereafter Boko Haram can be focused on

Elections need to fully secure not what happened in 2011 where some people started killing indiscriminately. Anyone thinking otherwise is afraid of losing.

GEJ Not dealing with Nigerians Pertinent Needs..

* Fight Insurgency
* The clean Up of ogoniland.

And he(GEJ) was Busy talking trash at Lagos..

GEJ Has Failed thew Nation
Lets#s All vote for CHANGE
Vote GMB/PYO..
Vote APC.

Hadone:
Simple strategy a primary school pupil can adopt if given leadership, but clueless GEJ would never think even close to that. And at the same time stupidly looking for my Vote

mumu,
dont you read the boko haram soldiers abandon their comrades when boko haram comes to kill villagers?
you and buhari need retentive memory.
that is how you can remember where your school certificate is.

To the clueless one, 'Deploy soldiers against Boko Haram, Not for election'... My president in waiting has spoken.

Its not a matter of deploying soldiers or not .its a matter of the north comin out with honesty and one accord with the south.if they had not hidden this b'haram within them n misguarded soldiers most of the time; b'haram would have been a thing of the past.... If b'haram menace stops if buhari wins the election it will be of no surprise to me, after all its the strategy they've build up right from the past northern leaders. The same people of the north that needs these soldiers wud be the same people that wud compromise them to b'harams. Election in Naija is not a play tin o so if GEJ deploy more troops there fo 2days or so it aint that bad than deployin them to ppl who dnt no the worth of soldiers,ppl wud compromise them! ... To me wats happenin in the north is just what happened to "Dr frankenstein". Heard of that?? #i might be wrong tho

So that you can have time to rig we no gree ooo

Niger has said it will not be involved in
attempts to retake the key north-east
Nigerian town of Baga from the militant
Islamist group, Boko Haram.
Bodies reportedly lay strewn on the streets of the
town following an assault by the Islamists on
Wednesday, with hundreds feared killed.
The town is near the border with Chad and had
housed a military base staffed partly by
multinational forces.
Soldiers from Niger had been there but were not
present when it was attacked.
Nigerian officials say government troops backed
by air strikes have now begun an effort to
recapture Baga.
A government spokesman said the security forces
were "actively pursuing the militants" but gave
few further details. There has been no
independent confirmation of the extent of any
clashes or casualties.
'Impunity'
The BBC's Nasidi Yahaya in Abuja says the
decision of Niger to abandon Baga is a big blow to
Nigeria, which had said that the presence of a
multinational task force in the area would help
defeat Boko Haram.
The withdrawal of troops from Niger means
Nigeria's neighbour now has no forces directly
involved in tackling Boko Haram.
Chad has also withdrawn its forces.
Boko Haram has torched many towns and
villages in northern Nigeria
Nigerian officials told the BBC that almost all of
Baga had been set on fire in the militant attacks.
Niger Foreign Minister Mohamed Bazoum told the
BBC Hausa service: "We have 50 soldiers there
and decided to withdraw them after Boko Haram
captured Malamfatori town in October and
continued to operate in the area with impunity.
"As you know, Baga is under [the control of] Boko
Haram terrorists and unless the town is
recaptured from them, we will not send back our
troops.
"But we are still determined to work with our
neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria to
contain the situation - it is a problem for us all."
'Burnt down'
A separate French-led initiative called for all four
West African countries to contribute 700 troops
each to a multinational force against Boko Haram,
but no country has implemented the plan.
Niger has blamed Nigeria, saying it has not kept
to commitments regarding its own troop levels.
Civilians who fled from Baga this week reported
that they had been unable to bury the dead.
Corpses littered the town's streets, said Musa
Alhaji Bukar, a senior government official in the
area.

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30743030

@bold,is this not exactly what Buhari is saying?
Jonathan has failed and he has admitted it.

Thought he once said that Fed Gvt should stop killing boko haramites?