JackBaueress1: If Jonathan had the same idea on how Buhari intends to eliminate boko haram,then Nigeria wouldn't be in this mess.
Give Buhari the presidency and boko haram will be a thing of the past.
if buhari has dsame ideal on how jonathan intends,to eliminate boko haram,then nigeria wouldnt be in mess.so my people les give jonathan the presidency and boko haram will go.
I am disappointed with most of the thoughts of nairalanders on this issue. It is clear most of them are not objective in their reasoning, but simply hate Jonathan just because he's 'Jonathan'. The only thing not done or considered on that list is the boosting of morale for our troops. Every other thing has either been considered, done or still doing. But because it is said by their candidate, then he's the better choice. We all know that election is next month, but it still doesn't mean we shouldn't be objective and honest with our reasoning.
Truly Nairaland has gone to the kids and matured idiots. Hopefully, after May 29th, sanity would return here.
Isiterere: ... blind comment. where is your fact? Have you heard of Maitasine?
ALL IZZ WELL
So why doesn't buhari help bringing up ideas and cooperate with gej's government so they can bring an end to BH if he really loved Nigerians and not the throne? Decive your self well
olapluto: This is much much better than GEJ's zero plan. GEJ's actions are just killing the military morale daily. If in doubt, watch this video of GEJ's last visit to Maiduguri when he met with the injured soldiers. A whole CinC could only mutter the words 'sorry eh' to a soldier injured trying to save Nigeria.
dseries: You guys in support of buhari seems 2 4get dat politicians use dia mouth 2 harvest cassava.. All e is saying is jst 2 create an impression dat e has an idea.. Bt cum 2 tink 2 it, hav u guys forgotten xo soon abt d statement dat buhari made that e wil mak d nation ungovernable 4 jonathan?? All of u nor hausa in support of GMB, pls tink twice
Politicians indeed use their mouth 2 harvest cassava GEJ is a perfect example. More people have died in this administration than any other. Jonathan has no regard for human life and he confirmed it in the NIS recruitment incident and no matter what ppl say about GMB, GEJ will always be worse. I've regretted my 2011 vote for him, I'm not willing to do that again. I'd rather risk it for someone else or keep it.
helinues: They are all the same.. Promise and fail as usual but I believe we can give him a shot for at least 4 years. if no changes after then, then let sweep him off.. We are more wiser than before.
Once APC gets that seat, you will never be able to get rid of them no matter how terrible they perform. If it were that easy, you would have been able to vote out PDP even from Obasanjo's administration.
I would have loved a neutral party aside PDP/APC winning that election. I don't trust this political heavyweights.
Negotiation is part of instruments available to fight insurgency and it is the effective tool in some of the cases. America negotiated with Taliban at some point. We negotiated with MEND even though they killed many innocent souls.
Don't ever compare mend with boko haram ever,mend never killed scores of innocent women n children in the name of a puny god,they where sitting on nigeria's oil production the FG had no choice but to negotiate,we all knew the cause mend where fighting for was justified, before it got hijacked,we are at war don't wait til it gets to ur domot before u realise .
...seems you're so naive of Nigeria politics. countless number of eminent Nigerians had proffer similar solution to the president but he refused to try their solution at the right time; former president Olusegun Obasanjo, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and GMB etc. Do you know how many days it took GEJ to accept that girls were kidnapped? They can only give advise, they can't force it on him. "Terrorist occur everywhere, maybe it's our time" GEJ.
ALL IZZ WELL [b]quote author=AspDrone post=29996784] So why doesn't buhari help bringing up ideas and cooperate with gej's government so they can bring an end to BH if he really loved Nigerians and not the throne? Decive your self well [/quote]
Seun: Most people have no confidence in the current government's plan to solve the problem of terrorism in Nigeria. However, it's important to try to find out whether the opposition has a better plan. For this reason, I went through General Buhari's recent interview with Thisday, and extracted the concrete statements he made about his plans to secure Nigeria and fight terrorism as the president of Nigeria.
Here they are, in his own words:
1. "What would I do differently? It is to make the military much more effective in their operations. If we get the opportunity, we will make the military capable again ... That is what we would do differently, to make Nigerian military capable again."
2. "Having known how the Boko Haram developed, what I would have personally done differently would be to get the Presidents of Cameroun, Chad and Niger together to say, ‘look our borders are porous and that we are not able to effectively protect them and monitor movements of people in and out of our territory, but please make sure that you do not provide training facilities or allow people to be coming into the county.’ "(technically, this is a statement about the past, but I'll allow it since he can do it when he gets into power)
3. "I think what I can do is appeal to the patriotic sense of the military."
4. "I think the situation needs a leadership that will give the military the backing in terms of sourcing the weapons and ammunition to fight. And Nigeria, no matter how oil prices have fallen, will source enough funds to fight the insurgents."
5. "This is what could be done differently, use intelligence, find out the leaders that are responsible and deal with them."
6. "Well, since they are stronger than the government, I think the government should negotiate with Boko Haram."
7. "If you do not cultivate a good relationship with your neighbours, it will cost you so much in terms of security and the economy. So you have to cultivate a friendship with your neighbours and then it goes on to ECOWAS, Africa and the rest of the world. I think this is a viable policy option."
8. "First of all it is important to debunk the notion being peddled by Boko Haram that Western education is ungodly. They go into schools and slaughter children both Christian and Muslim children. They go to mosques and explode devices, they also go to the churches and motor parks. So really, it is very easy to disabuse the minds of Nigerians on the wrong notion that Boko Haram is a religious enterprise. They are just simply terrorists. Having reduced them to that, then you can earn the support of the immediate communities for you to flush the insurgents out of the society. I believe that this will not take a long time."
9. "Then you discuss with your neighbours to make sure that weapons are not crossing the borders and that there are [no] training facilities for terrorists."
10. "I think that soldiers and police barracks and their armories must be strengthened to ensure that they are properly secured."
11. "I think that the air force has to be made more effective by acquiring more new aircraft and establishing a base in Kano so that the distance to cover is shorter and returning to base is made easier."
12. "You know there were problems with the Boko Haram leadership, there were some people that claimed to be leaders of Boko Haram and the sect disowned them. So we have to identify the real leaders of Boko Haram before you can negotiate with them."
13. "I am insisting on intelligence, which means gathering information and making sure that it is correct and you deal with it. Without intelligence you waste too much resources and lives."
I disagree. If that was the case, how come our military didn't know about the joint military effort between Cameroon and Chad against the Boko Boys?
We were all told that the Nigerian, Chadian and Cameroonian govts had a joint team in Baga but pulled out some weeks ago. Chadians are joining forces with the Cameroon govt to fight Boko Haram on Cameroonian soil, not Nigeria. Therefore, I don't think they are obligated to inform Nigeria of the joint military effort. Boko Haram is becoming more problem to Cameroon than Nigeria.
helinues: They are all the same.. Promise and fail as usual but I believe we can give him a shot for at least 4 years. if no changes after then, then let sweep him off.. We are more wiser than before.
Great comment. That is the spirit. Buhari should be given a chance. If he fails, we vote him out 2019. Better than still managing a perpetual failure.
The same Buhari who was overthrown as a military head of state is now saying that he can rescue Nigeria from Boko haram.He does't have the capacity to offer anything meaningful to Nigeria now that he is 75 years old.Jonathan can do better if voted into power again.GEJ has the mandate.
all nigerian graduates must rise and say no to this injustice about to be done to education. if we allow Buhari to contest without providing his certificate, then we should be ready to be sidelined in greater positions tomorrow. let us all protest this seriously noatter your party or who u follow....how can a man retire since 1983 and he couldnt develop himself certicate wise and no any other further training or education like obasanjo did. sorry to say..we are about voting for a dummy. pls lets say no to this stupidity
JackBaueress1: If Jonathan had the same idea on how Buhari intends to eliminate boko haram,then Nigeria wouldn't be in this mess.
Give Buhari the presidency and boko haram will be a thing of the past.
yl wouldn't it be?,,,,,,,you forgot that the best way to keep a thing safe is giving it to a thief to keep for you...!? Also the best way to keep a nation peaceful is to let the one who has made it ungovernable to govern it.
Seun: Most people have no confidence in the current government's plan to solve the problem of terrorism in Nigeria. However, it's important to try to find out whether the opposition has a better plan. For this reason, I went through General Buhari's recent interview with Thisday, and extracted the concrete statements he made about his plans to secure Nigeria and fight terrorism as the president of Nigeria.
Here they are, in his own words:
1. "What would I do differently? It is to make the military much more effective in their operations. If we get the opportunity, we will make the military capable again ... That is what we would do differently, to make Nigerian military capable again."
2. "Having known how the Boko Haram developed, what I would have personally done differently would be to get the Presidents of Cameroun, Chad and Niger together to say, ‘look our borders are porous and that we are not able to effectively protect them and monitor movements of people in and out of our territory, but please make sure that you do not provide training facilities or allow people to be coming into the county.’ "(technically, this is a statement about the past, but I'll allow it since he can do it when he gets into power)
3. "I think what I can do is appeal to the patriotic sense of the military."
4. "I think the situation needs a leadership that will give the military the backing in terms of sourcing the weapons and ammunition to fight. And Nigeria, no matter how oil prices have fallen, will source enough funds to fight the insurgents."
5. "This is what could be done differently, use intelligence, find out the leaders that are responsible and deal with them."
6. "Well, since they are stronger than the government, I think the government should negotiate with Boko Haram."
7. "If you do not cultivate a good relationship with your neighbours, it will cost you so much in terms of security and the economy. So you have to cultivate a friendship with your neighbours and then it goes on to ECOWAS, Africa and the rest of the world. I think this is a viable policy option."
8. "First of all it is important to debunk the notion being peddled by Boko Haram that Western education is ungodly. They go into schools and slaughter children both Christian and Muslim children. They go to mosques and explode devices, they also go to the churches and motor parks. So really, it is very easy to disabuse the minds of Nigerians on the wrong notion that Boko Haram is a religious enterprise. They are just simply terrorists. Having reduced them to that, then you can earn the support of the immediate communities for you to flush the insurgents out of the society. I believe that this will not take a long time."
9. "Then you discuss with your neighbours to make sure that weapons are not crossing the borders and that there are [no] training facilities for terrorists."
10. "I think that soldiers and police barracks and their armories must be strengthened to ensure that they are properly secured."
11. "I think that the air force has to be made more effective by acquiring more new aircraft and establishing a base in Kano so that the distance to cover is shorter and returning to base is made easier."
12. "You know there were problems with the Boko Haram leadership, there were some people that claimed to be leaders of Boko Haram and the sect disowned them. So we have to identify the real leaders of Boko Haram before you can negotiate with them."
13. "I am insisting on intelligence, which means gathering information and making sure that it is correct and you deal with it. Without intelligence you waste too much resources and lives."
You guys must be very very careful in writing nonsense things and deadly promises to the good people of this nation on behalf of Buhari, Be warned. This is a very bad moment for Buhari on top of his certificate scandal...
intellectual247: The Op is so gullible to post a trash like this! Well am not surprise cos looking at the comment i can understand your kind of readership. imagine lifting a trash like this "If we get the opportunity, we will make the military capable again ... That is what we would do differently, to make Nigerian military capable again." and u found it worthy to post it here. I have always said that the danger to Nigeria is not GMB after all he is a semi-illiterate, the danger is a citizenry willing to vote such a man for president. sentiments apart, how can a man with an idea as gullible as the one you posted here tend to solve the problem of insecurity. it takes a smart and wise president to do it and you will agree with me that GMB is neither smart nor wise. im not surprised he allowed himself to be rented by Tinubu and his ilk to get them to the presidency to llot our national treasury
Man this is for the discerning. good thinkers; intellectuals; not depraved and warp-minded half-bakes like you. blindly supporting an absolute and complete failure by the name GEJ.
So your shameless show of ignorance may be excused within the context of your intellectual paucity.
You guys must be very very careful in writing nonsense things and deadly promises to the good people of this nation on behalf of Buhari, Be warned. This is a very bad moment for Buhari on top of his certificate scandal...
Go and write your own for jonathan on top of his crass incompetence resulting to his absolute cluelessness.
Louislewis: A MUST READ BY BOTH SUPPORTERS OF APC/PDP: THIS WAS HOW WE WERE SECURED LAST TIME BY HIM...
The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the-scenes assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order. Buhari – need one remind anyone - was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry. Prominent against these charges was an act that amounted to nothing less than judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths - Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community – religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc. Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear. The execution of that youthful innocent – for so he was, since the punishment did not exist at the time of commission - was nothing short of premeditated murder, for which the perpetrators should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity. Are we truly expected to forget this violation of our entitlement to security as provided under existing laws? And even if our sensibilities have become blunted by succeeding seasons of cruelty and brutality, if power itself had so coarsened the sensibilities also of rulers and corrupted their judgment, what should one rightly expect after they have been rescued from the snare of power” At the very least, a revaluation, leading hopefully to remorse, and its expression to a wronged society. At the very least, such a revaluation should engender reticence, silence. In the case of Buhari, it was the opposite. Since leaving office he has declared in the most categorical terms that he had no regrets over this murder and would do so again. Human life is inviolate. The right to life is the uniquely fundamental right on which all other rights are based. The crime that General Buhari committed against the entire nation went further however, inconceivable as it might first appear. That crime is one of the most profound negations of civic being. Not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule. Let us constantly applaud our media – those battle scarred professionals did not completely knuckle down. They resorted to cartoons and oblique, elliptical references to sustain the people’s campaign for a time-table to democratic rule. Overt agitation for a democratic time table however remained rigorously suppressed – military dictatorship, and a specifically incorporated in Buhari and Idiagbon was here to stay. To deprive a people of volition in their own political direction is to turn a nation into a colony of slaves. 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. So Tai Solarin is already forgotten? Tai who stood at street corners, fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up the gauntlet where the media had dropped it. Tai who was incarcerated by that regime and denied even the medication for his asthmatic condition? Tai did not ask to be sent for treatment overseas; all he asked was his traditional medicine that had proved so effective after years of struggle with asthma! Nor must we omit the manner of Buhari coming to power and the pattern of his ‘corrective’ rule. Shagari’s NPN had already run out of steam and was near universally detested – except of course by the handful that still benefited from that regime of profligacy and rabid fascism. Responsibility for the national condition lay squarely at the door of the ruling party, obviously, but against whom was Buhari’s coup staged? Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagari’s government but against the opposition. The head of government, on whom primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cozy house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-kiri prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and/or responsibility. And then the cascade of escapes of the wanted, and culpable politicians. Manhunts across the length and breadth of the nation, roadblocks everywhere and borders tight as steel zip locks. Lo and behold, the chairman of the party, Chief Akinloye, strolled out coolly across the border. Richard Akinjide, Legal Protector of the ruling party, slipped out with equal ease. The Rice Minister, Umaru Dikko, who declared that Nigerians were yet to eat from dustbins - escaped through the same airtight dragnet. The clumsy attempt to crate him home was punishment for his ingratitude, since he went berserk when, after waiting in vain, he concluded that the coup had not been staged, after all, for the immediate consolidation of the party of extreme right-wing vultures, but for the military hyenas. The case of the overbearing Secretary-General of the party, Uba Ahmed, was even more noxious. Uba Ahmed was out of the country at the time. Despite the closure of the Nigerian airspace, he compelled the pilot of his plane to demand special landing permission, since his passenger load included the almighty Uba Ahmed. Of course, he had not known of the change in his status since he was airborne. The delighted airport commandant, realizing that he had a much valued fish swimming willingly into a waiting net, approved the request. Uba Ahmed disembarked into the arms of a military guard and was promptly clamped in detention. Incredibly, he vanished a few days after and reappeared in safety overseas. Those whose memories have become calcified should explore the media coverage of that saga. Buhari was asked to explain the vanished act of this much prized quarry and his response was one of the most arrogant levity. Coming from one who had shot his way into power on the slogan of ‘dis’pline’, it was nothing short of impudent. Shall we revisit the tragicomic series of trials that landed several politicians several lifetimes in prison? Recall, if you please, the ‘judicial’ processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried before Buhari’s punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning an election and refusing to knuckle under Shagari’s reign of terror. The conduct of the Buhari regime after his coup was not merely one of double, triple, multiple standards but a cynical travesty of justice. Audu Ogbeh, currently chairman of the Action Congress was one of the few figures of rectitude within the NPN. Just as he has done in recent times with the PDP, he played the role of an internal critic and reformer, warning, dissenting, and setting an example of probity within his ministry. For that crime he spent months in unjust incarceration. Guilty by association? Well, if that was the motivating yardstick of the administration of the Buhari justice, then it was most selectively applied. The utmost severity of the Buhari-Idiagbon justice was especially reserved either for the opposition in general, or for those within the ruling party who had showed the sheerest sense of responsibility and patriotism. Shall I remind this nation of Buhari’s deliberate humiliating treatment of the Emir of Kano and the Oni of Ife over their visit to the state of Israel? I hold no brief for traditional rulers and their relationship with governments, but insist on regarding them as entitled to all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of any Nigerian citizen. This royal duo went to Israel on their private steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation require the permission of a head of state to visit a foreign nation that was willing to offer that tourist a visa.? One is only too aware that some Nigerians love to point to Buhari’s agenda of discipline as the shining jewel in his scrap-iron crown. To inculcate discipline however, one must lead by example, obeying laws set down as guides to public probity. Example speaks louder than declarations, and rulers cannot exempt themselves from the disciplinary strictures imposed on the overall polity, especially on any issue that seeks to establish a policy for public well-being. The story of the thirty something suitcases – it would appear that they were even closer to fifty - found unavoidable mention in my recent memoirs, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DOWN, written long before Buhari became spoken of as a credible candidate. For the exercise of a changeover of the national currency, the Nigerian borders – air, sea and land – had been shut tight. Nothing was supposed to move in or out, not even cattle egrets. Yet a prominent camel was allowed through that needle’s eye. Not only did Buhari dispatch his aide-de-camp, Jokolo – later to become an emir - to facilitate the entry of those cases, he ordered the redeployment – as I later discovered - of the Customs Officer who stood firmly against the entry of the contravening baggage. That officer, the former Vice-president is now a rival candidate to Buhari, but has somehow, in the meantime, earned a reputation that totally contradicts his conduct at the time. Wherever the truth lies, it does not redound to the credibility of the dictator of that time, General Buhari whose word was law, but whose allegiances were clearly negotiable.
jorlons: Politicians indeed use their mouth 2 harvest cassava GEJ is a perfect example. More people have died in this administration than any other. Jonathan has no regard for human life and he confirmed it in the NIS recruitment incident and no matter what ppl say about GMB, GEJ will always be worse. I've regretted my 2011 vote for him, I'm not willing to do that again. I'd rather risk it for someone else or keep it.
when ur buhari is making the country ungovernable with boko harams,,,,,,,u knew quiet well,,,and ur here,,ur mouth is running like tap,,,,gej don't value lives,,,,,
as u av regretted ur 2011,,vote,,,,make sure u don't regret this one,,,,
Pls Trying Buhari to rule us again in 4years that we will see a change but the past he rule when he was young did he make any change now that he is old 75 years that he will make a change.let us tell us tell our self the truth because there is no change in his life any more ok
