IF one were to decode the guiding
principle of Muhammadu Buhari’s
presidential ambitions, it would be this:
“If at first you don’t succeed, don’t give up
until you have failed three more times on
the trot.”
Nigerians don’t want Muhammadu Buhari
to be our president. We have said this
repeatedly since 1999. But Buhari simply
refuses to take “No” for an answer. When
is he finally going to get the message that
an overwhelming majority of Nigerians
don’t want him?
Buhari is the last of yesterday’s men who
insist that a country of 170 million people
must continue to rely on the leadership of
the same old and failed generation.
Nigerians have already put paid to the
presumptions of Olusegun Obasanjo; who
wanted a fourth term; Ibrahim Babangida;
who stepped aside and wanted to step
back in; and Atiku Abubakar, who runs a
marathon for the presidency. Buhari is
the last of these recalcitrant dinosaurs.
The one good thing about the coming
presidential election is that it is likely to
provide Nigerians with a final definitive
opportunity to send him permanently into
retirement.
APC Presidential Candidate, Gen.
Mohammed Buhari with his running mate
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo SAN in Abuja.
Photo: Gbemiga Olamikan
Buhari’s repeated failure to secure a
national mandate provides a textbook
case of how not to run for the presidency
in a plural country like Nigeria. This is a
compendium of some of the reasons why
the Nigerian presidency will forever elude
men like Buhari, inspite of all the song
and dance that attends their candidacies.
If anybody would like to be a serial loser
of the presidential election in Nigeria,
here is a list of what he needs to do;
according to the blueprint of Muhammadu
Buhari.
Be an enemy of democracy
Claim you are anti-corruption but steal
the presidency of the entire country
through an illegal and fraudulent military
coup. Claim you are a democrat after you
overthrew a democratically elected
government in 1983 and made yourself
Head of State without the consent of the
people of Nigeria. As military Head of
State, refuse to entertain any plan for a
return to civilian rule. Tell Nigerians that
anyone who discusses a return to civil rule
would be arrested.
Overthrow a government, but be more
against the opposition than the
government in power. Establish
manhunts for key politicians in the length
and breadth of the country. Nevertheless,
allow key elements of the ruling NPN to
escape out of the country, including party
chairman, Richard Akinloye; legal
counsel, Richard Akinjide; and Minister of
Transport, Umaru Dikko. Allow the
Secretary-General of the party, Uba
Ahmed, to escape abroad, even after he
had mistakenly returned to the country
and was arrested and jailed.
Violate human rights: Promulgate the
infamous Decree 2 that makes even the
reporting of the truth a punishable
offence. Use it to imprison Tunde
Thompson and Nduka Irabo, two
journalists from the South, for reporting
stories that were factually true. Then tell
Nigerian journalists: “It does not matter
whether the story reported was true or
not, if my regime does not like it, the
writer would go to jail.”
Try Nigerian civilians in military tribunals
as opposed to regular courts of law in
violation of internationally acceptable
legal norms. Create a secret police, the
National Security Organization (NSO) for
the first time in Nigeria’s history under
infamous Lawal Rafindadi to harass and
imprison without trial Nigerian citizens in
clear violation of their human rights.
Publicly murder three Nigerians; Lawal
Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29)
and Bartholomew Owoh (26): two from
the South-West and one from the South
East, under the dubious Decree 20 for
drug-related offences. Ignore the fact
that, at the time they committed their
crimes, their offences were not punishable
by the death sentences.
Nevertheless, maliciously backdate the
death-sentence with illegal retroactive
decrees that violate every international
norm of due process and human rights
just in order to kill these three hapless
young men. In spite of widespread
international condemnation for this,
refuse to show any remorse or contrition
or to apologise for this judicial murder till
date.
When asked to appear before the Justice
Oputa “Truth and Reconciliation Panel” in
order to answer for a litany of abuses of
power and violation of human rights while
in power as Nigeria’s military Head of
State, refuse to appear showing your
contempt for Nigerians.
Discriminate against the South: Balance a
Northern Fulani
Head of State with another Northern
Fulani deputy. Conduct a coup d’état,
ostensibly to overthrow a corrupt
Nigerian government. However, be so
ethnically chauvinistic that you put Dr.
Alex Ekwueme, the vice-president who
took none of the decisions under lock-
and-key in jail in Kirikiri because he is
Igbo and Christian. At the same time, put
Alhaji Shehu Shagari, the president who
was the person in charge under house
arrest in a palatial mansion in Ikoyi,
Lagos because he happens to be the same
as you: Fulani and Muslim.
Make Northern politicians sacred cows
and untouchable. Fail to arrest and
prosecute none of the prominent Hausa/
Fulani politicians who were the principal
actors in the government you overthrew;
including Adamu Ciroma, Suleiman
Takuma, Aliu Gusau, Lawal Kaita, Barkin
Zuwo, Shehu Kangiwa and Awwal
Ibrahim.
Southern politicians
At the same time, jail Southern
politicians, including Bisi Onabanjo,
Ambrose Alli, Lateef Jakande, Jim
Nwobodo, and others on trumped up
charges that could not be substantiated in
any court of law. Try octogenarian
Michael Ajasin of the South-West before a
tribunal. When he is discharged and
acquitted; try him again. When he is
discharged and acquitted again, try him a
third time. When he is discharged and
acquitted yet again, keep him in indefinite
detention without just cause.
Maltreat Southern leaders: Send a team of
soldiers to ransack the Park Lane, Apapa
residence of elder Southern statesman,
Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Give no reason
whatsoever for this blatant violation of
the old man’s privacy. Seize his
international passport for no just cause.
Later, try to pull the wool over the eyes of
the Yorubas by choosing a man married to
Awolowo’s grand-daughter as your vice-
presidential running-mate.
Lock Emeka Ojukwu, an Igbo man from
the South, in prison in Kirikiri with the
politicians of the Second Republic, in spite
of the fact that he committed no crime and
held no public office in the Second
Republic. Moreover, after Ojukwu
returned to Nigeria after 13 years of exile,
he received a full pardon from the
president of Nigeria for his activities as
leader of the secessionist government of
Biafra. Provide Nigerians with no
explanation whatsoever for the exact
offence that led to Ojukwu’s arrest and
incarceration.
Get booted out of office by your own
clique in the army. Have your colleague,
Ibrahim Babangida, give this testimony
about you: “regrettably it turned out that
(he) was too rigid and uncompromising in
his attitudes to issues of national
significance. 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 the attitudes.”
Corrupt practices: Prohibit the
importation of naira into the country
during a much ballyhooed currency
exchange programme. Then contravene
your own policy by having your ADC,
Colonel Mustapha Jokolo, allow his
father, the Emir of Gwandu from the
North, to smuggle into the country
through Muritala Muhammed
International Airport 53 suitcases which
the then Area Administrator of the Lagos
Airport Customs Command, Atiku
Abubakar, was not allowed to search.
At the same time, sentence Afrobeat
musician, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, a Yoruba
man from the South-West, to 20 months
in jail for being in possession of foreign-
exchange he had legitimately procured for
the upkeep of his band on a foreign trip.
Because Fela mocked you in his songs for
being unable to address the problems of
Nigeria, declare to Nigerians that: “I
decided to deal with this Fela problem
once and for all.” Face public
embarrassment because the judge who
pronounced the sentence on Fela later
confessed that he was ordered to jail him.
Disregard for Nigeria’s secularity:As
military Head of State, contravene the
country’s secularity by having Nigeria
apply to join the Organisation of Islamic
States (OIC). The application finally came
through in 1986 and divided the country
acrimoniously along Muslim/Christian
lines.
Tell Muslims not to vote for Christians.
Reveal to Nigerians that you are a
religious bigot by declaring in Kaduna in
2001 that: “I will continue to show openly
and inside me the total commitment to
the Sharia movement that is sweeping all
over Nigeria. God willing, we will not
stop the agitation for the total
implementation of the Sharia in the
country.” Say this, in spite of the fact that
declaring some states as sharia states is in
clear violation of the secularity of
Nigeria’s federalism, as contained in
section 10 of the Constitution of Nigeria
Anti-corruption contradictions
Claim to be an anti-corruption crusader;
nevertheless, agree to serve under Sani
Abacha, one of the most corrupt Heads-
of-State ever in the history of Nigeria. On
the 10th anniversary of General Abacha’s
demise, tell incredulous Nigerians that
Abacha did not steal anything while he
was Nigeria’s Head of State. Describe all
the allegations of looting the treasury
leveled against Abacha as “baseless.”
Maintain that: “ten years after Abacha,
those allegations remain unproven
because of lack of facts.”
Hold this position in spite of the millions
of dollars of Abacha’s loot recovered from
banks around the world, and in spite of
the fact that the Abacha’s family signed a
formal agreement to return over $1
billion to the Nigerian government.
As chairman of the juiciest portfolio of all
under Sani Abacha’s government; the
Petroleum Trust Fund with a budget of
181 billion naira between 1994 and 1999,
fail woefully to curb the rampant
corruption in the organisation. When in
2000, President Obasanjo set up an
Interim Management Committee to look
into the affairs of the PTF under the
chairmanship of Haroun Adamu, it was
discovered that over 25 billion naira was
stolen under your watch.
Claim to be an anti-corruption crusader,
but Group Captain Usman Jibrin, a board
member of PTF, resigned from the
organization in protest over the blatant
irregularities in your appointment of
consultants.
(TO BE CONTINUED).



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So, oga Op are u trying to tell us dat Oga Aribisala is saying that boohary will still lose this years presidential election again?? Kai! Pant don wear boohary finish

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GEJ till MTN bonus begins to last very long..

No one can seperate buhari n failure, they have been friends for the past 15 years (1999) 15years friendship no be small frienship oooooo! GEJ till 2019!!!

There you have it General buhari... You are officially being accused of corrupt practices...