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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by hogunzy(m): 8:04am On Feb 19, 2015
oloriburuku ma ni awon ti wan pe ra wan ni Yoruba progressive group yi after collecting money from jona they just knew that deploy soldiers to awolowo'compound why it now they are now coming out to say this nursery school joke .this ppl don't like Yoruba @ all they are only talking for there pocket. mama awolowo self don support us so this useless ppl should go and die

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by cytellProperty: 8:04am On Feb 19, 2015
lawbabs:
The group that has been paid by PDP and the current federal govt... We are no fools!
Your eyes go soon open.

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by Nobody: 8:05am On Feb 19, 2015
LFJ:


No wonder that Jonathan that is popular all over the world is afraid of election while the unpopular Buhari is ready?
no not dt the popular President is affraid of ur buhari, but jst dt he wants to informate the brain washd, d less informed and a dunce lik u, so dt u will b inform of d aftrmart of vottn in ur Buhari

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by terrifik19(m): 8:06am On Feb 19, 2015
at least, GMB was not a corrupt man!! that alone is an integrity....

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by shakiru991(m): 8:08am On Feb 19, 2015
Ma voTe 4 buhari insha Allah

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by lawbabs: 8:08am On Feb 19, 2015
Chukwugekwu:
Let's forget about hate .......let's be sincerely Buhari has failed us many times ......it's quite obvious that Buhari is a terrorist. ...even a child here in Nigeria knows ........

can Buhari denied boko haram. .......



Buhari is a boko haram , see Buhari went for rally on Bono State and all the boko haram went on vacation. ...



Let's forget about hate .......let's be 'sincerely' sincere, Jonathan has failed us many times ......it's quite obvious that Jonathan is a terrorist (feeding rebels in the South South and instigating crisis in the North) . ...even a child here in Nigeria knows ........

can Jonathan 'denied' deny boko haram. ....... (he once said "they are our brothers...", "they are in my govt"



Jonathan is a boko haram , see Jonathan went for rally on 'Bono' Borno State and everyone was blocked or could not come to his campaign ground so they wont be bombed as he instigated the Oct 1 2011 bombing @eagle square ...

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by linusbnn(m): 8:10am On Feb 19, 2015
LFJ:


While part of the achievements of Jonathan were promoting corruption, encouraging tribal and religion war.


With yur staement now,what are you promoting? Blindfolded pple who sees notin good in others rather talk RUBBISH..

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by lawbabs: 8:11am On Feb 19, 2015
Olysaint:
no not dt the popular President is affraid of ur buhari, but jst dt he wants to informate the brain washd, d less informed and a dunce lik u, so dt u will b inform of d aftrmart of vottn in ur Buhari

Are you saying he couldn't do that since August last year until now, that is why he postponed the election? Give yourself a fragment of brain if you don't have one, brother...

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by free2ryhme: 8:11am On Feb 19, 2015
sweetbaby22:


What mercy? This is the kind of person some people want to become president. What did he do from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985 when he had the chance to rule Nigeria.


Jonathan did worse compared to buhari.

Don't mInd the yeye faceless group o

For all we know they might be another propaganda machinery from pdp

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by lawbabs: 8:12am On Feb 19, 2015
cytellProperty:
Your eyes go soon open.

Your eyes go soon close
Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by femy2010(m): 8:13am On Feb 19, 2015
Yeye Group

I rep TeamGMB
Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by Nobody: 8:13am On Feb 19, 2015
richidinho:


Thank you bro

Vote PDP

We are working hard to correct all those shortcomings; join hand with us

GEJ mean well for Nigeria

If your party means well for Nigerians....can you then tell them to discuss how they plan to handle the current challenges Nigeria faces...instead of inane comments about Buhari's choice of wear?

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by lawbabs: 8:13am On Feb 19, 2015
cytellProperty:
Ashiwere Progreassives Congress is embroiled with a lot of controversies. Thief-nubu has turned Lagos to his business empire alongsides False-ola. Buhari's old age, certificate scandal and dictatorial tendecies. Amaechi corrupt nature and indecent behavioural attitudes. So much controversies for a party that claims being progressives and clamouring for change. Change indeed.

Sign of paranoia. You need help. Please dial 199
Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by TippyTop(m): 8:14am On Feb 19, 2015
henrydadon:
why do i av this feelinq buhari might actually show us his true self when he becomes president...i just hope we all vote wisely

Buhari has been marketed remarkably this time around by AKPD of New York. Those publicity professioners in AKPD or whatever they're called can make Osama Bin Laden look a saint.

Shekau should use their services, in few years they'd be able to sell Shekau as a religious man who the devil unsuccessfully used but who repented and is now in God's favour.

Only tribal warlords would see ACN and CPC as a Nigerian movement rather than a conglomeration of aggrieved politicians hell bent on securing power at all cost. OBJ and Atiku are seen more as progressives now more than real progressives.

This is power at all cost and we won't allow it.

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by hero31x(m): 8:15am On Feb 19, 2015
Buhari, Your Sins will find You Out!

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by TippyTop(m): 8:16am On Feb 19, 2015
bushdoc9919:


If your party means well for Nigerians....can you then tell them to discuss how they plan to handle the current challenges Nigeria faces...instead of inane comments about Buhari's choice of wear?

And when GEJ's achievements and plans are listed your posse of no-gooders will flood the thread with cartoons stating you don't have to showcase your achievements.

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by Yomboy4ever(m): 8:19am On Feb 19, 2015
sweetbaby22:


What mercy? This is the kind of person some people want to become president. What did he do from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985 when he had the chance to rule Nigeria.

Bro make u try compare u try compare his 2yrs
With bro Jona 6 yrs.
u will knw bro jona is clueless
Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by Yomboy4ever(m): 8:20am On Feb 19, 2015
sweetbaby22:


What mercy? This is the kind of person some people want to become president. What did he do from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985 when he had the chance to rule Nigeria.

Bro make u try compare his 2yrs
With bro Jona 6 yrs in power.
u will knw bro jona is clueless
Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by Nobody: 8:22am On Feb 19, 2015
TippyTop:


And when GEJ's achievements and plans are listed your posse of no-gooders will flood the thread with cartoons stating you don't have to showcase your achievements.

Achievements is not the point here.

The point is...oil prices have fallen, power supply is not where it is supposed to be, our education system still trains clerks....and we face a return to the lean times of the 1980's.

And all these achievements were made possible by oil staying above $100 per barrel. If GEJ wins this year....he won't be able to sustain them achievements.Not with oil set to go below $30 per barrel (and don't listen to the optimists saying it will go back up...there are far more producers of oil than they were ten years ago...).

What is the point of achievements when you no longer have the funds to support/sustain them?

IMO....this govt, by not getting us off our oil dependency has failed....regardless of the number of wonderful things it has built.

That is why I won't be voting PDP or APC this year....they both have no answer to our oil dependency. So....no vote until someone in our political elite takes us back on our interrupted road to industries and industries using our local raw materiel!
Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by Louislewis: 8:25am On Feb 19, 2015
[size=16pt]When are we going to learn our lessons …The YORUBAS ?[/size]

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.- George Santayan (1863-1952)

It took Abacha two months to sideline Diya. How long will it take Buhari to sideline Osinbajo? Gen.Sani Abacha used Gen.Oladipo Diya to gain Yoruba support for his coup in 1993. Two months after, Diya was sidelined in favour of a "born-to-rule" mafia, headed by Alhaji Aminu Saleh and curated by Major Al Mustapha.


After enjoying the support of president Olusegun Obasanjo to become president in 2007, Ahhaji Umoru Musa Yar'Adua stopped picking Obasanjo's calls barely six weeks after getting into office. Also, it took Yar'Adua a mere eight weeks to block Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from gaining acess to Aso Rock after assuming office in 2007.

How long will it take Gen.Muhammadu Buhari to hand over his government to the "PTF Mafia" headed by Tanimu Yakubu if the General succeeds in using Yoruba South-West to win power in 2015?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr_95vQq7I0

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by Dinirojones(m): 8:26am On Feb 19, 2015
Abeg Bros who ar d real yorubas?? undecided
AdoIfHitler:


The real yorubas are out there shouting Gej till 2019

Pictures of you being a yoruba or adonbilivit
Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by babestella: 8:26am On Feb 19, 2015
jerseyboy:
Buhari has no close friend from any other ethnic group in Nigeria apart from his own. The best he will say is that his driver is Igbo.

He will say his laundering man and cook are igbos.

We forget so soon, he told us his daughter married an Anambra man, weeks afree the comment, he was busted. The man is a fraud and very deceitful. APC is fraud.

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by AdoIfHitler: 8:29am On Feb 19, 2015
lilbabyak:

which yoruba group?
cos this group consist of some foolish, tired old men that are hungry.
stomach infrastructure at work.



march4buhari

True sons of oduduwa have spoken

The ones on nairaland are bastards

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by AdoIfHitler: 8:30am On Feb 19, 2015
Dinirojones:
Abeg Bros who ar d real yorubas?? undecided

Real sons of oduduwa have spoken
Not the bastards on nairaland

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by Nobody: 8:30am On Feb 19, 2015
hogunzy:
oloriburuku ma ni awon ti wan pe ra wan ni Yoruba progressive group yi after collecting money from jona they just knew that deploy soldiers to awolowo'compound why it now they are now coming out to say this nursery school joke .this ppl don't like Yoruba @ all they are only talking for there pocket. mama awolowo self don support us so this useless ppl should go and die
Anybody saying the truth collected money from Jonathan. You mind only thinks of corrupt practices.

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by Yomboy4ever(m): 8:31am On Feb 19, 2015
Intells:
my dear grow up and be mature for once. ..stop criticize Gej. ...if I come to your house and take your money or if am working for you and take your money and u later saw me on the way hope u will start shouting corruption corruption abi? My dear stealing is stealing and not corruption. ..corruption is corruption they are not same


Bro don't mind dem jare Ordinary stealing dey will b calling it corruption.
Hw much did... Stole?
Hahahahahahh u funny die
Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by kasheemawo(m): 8:32am On Feb 19, 2015
why PDP is afraid of this election ? All this propaganda against person of GMB can't change anything because #ihavedecided.
Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by babilicious: 8:34am On Feb 19, 2015
LFJ:


That is the reason why i am going to vote wisely, because I am ashame of a fo.o.l as leader.


To u, you're making sense. You don't want a fool as a leader but you want an illetrate with no genuine certificate as a president don't u think that makes u foolish?

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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by xmich(m): 8:35am On Feb 19, 2015
The fear of that uncircumcised man is the beginning of wisdom.
Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by vatoslocos: 8:36am On Feb 19, 2015
This was Okurounmu in 2007. Guess he is now one of the beneficiaries of the N21billion PDP largesse.




In this February 2007 exclusive interview with
Uhuru Times’ ALEX ADESINA in his Abeokuta,
Ogun State home, the then General Secretary of
pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere,
Senator Femi Okurounmu, argued that former
military dictator, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, was
the only one among the presidential candidates
that could salvage Nigeria. Excerpts:
SENATOR Abraham Adesanya was at a social
event recently despite his ill health. What is his
state of health and how much does he still
contribute to the running of Afenifere’s affairs
today?
His state of health is, I would say stable. As you
know, his illness is not physical. So, he can walk
around. And he can appear at social functions. You
know that at a time he had stroke. Even if you are
not a medical doctor, you should know that stroke
can have many side effects. Even loss of memory
and things like that. Some of the many after effects
of stroke have made it possible for him to be very
inactive in Afenifere affairs. And that was why he
appointed an acting leader. The circumstances of his
health since he came back (from abroad) are such
that he cannot resume fully. But he is still our
leader. But he cannot participate fully in running
the affairs (of Afenifere). He doesn’t have the
physical strength or the intellectual capacity now to
do that.
The leaders of Afenifere are advancing in age. Yet
the challenges being faced by the Yoruba in
Nigeria does not seem to have changed. How
does your organisation intend to face these
challenges given the fact that your leaders are
not as agile as before?
It is unfortunate that the stereotype of who is a
leader is an old man and I think that is a very wrong
stereotype. In fact, Afenifere must be credited for
taking the initiative many years ago to groom a lot of
young men who can take the place of these aging
people as they aged. But you will see that most of
the Afenifere problems have come from these young
men who Afenifere has been trying to groom.
Unfortunately, nowadays young men are impatient.
They want to do things in such a way that they want
to become leaders overnight without even going
through any learning or grooming period. The
problem of Afenifere in the last three or four years
have been caused by the young men who we
believed that we are recruiting, grooming to take up
leadership positions. But they thought that the
leaders themselves must go and die and to
immediately give way for them. A leader should be
glad to go and retire if these young men learn to
stay along the right path. If they absorb the right
lessons of politics and practice the philosophy of
Afenifere. Then of course the leaders can sit down
and retire like any other father and say that, well
my son has taken over, he will not derail. But
unfortunately, a lot of these young men simply saw
Afenifere as a vehicle that they could ride to archive
their immediate political ambitions. They did not
absorb the discipline. They did not absorb all the
ideals of Afenifere. As a result of that, many of them
got lured by the transient attraction of money and
power. They became indistinguishable in the way
they behaved from those who are not Afenifere.
They begin to go after money. They go after some
body who is in power because; you think you can
use him to get to power yourself even though you
don’t agree with his philosophy. Many of the
young men we were trying to groom became
attracted to instant power and so whoever had
money was always right, whether the person was
acting in accordance with the principles of Afenifere
or not. This has been the tragedy of Afenifere. Many
of the young men we were trying to groom derailed.
And they did not have the patience of absorbing the
proper lessons and discipline of Afenifere.
A successor generation is often proof that the
leadership of an organisation like yours has been
successful. But we are aware that some key
younger elements of Afenifere were responsible
for the split in the organization. What is the
future of Afenifere vis-a vis the younger
generation that would succeed the current
leadership?
I think the future of Afenifere is very bright. Even
the young elements we are talking about and the
younger elements generally are already witnessing
the failure of their own approach to politics in
Nigeria today; that is the politics of using material
things you have to acquire power. We see that it has
failed us. That is why the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) government has failed us. I have no apologies.
The government has failed because the leading
positions in politics today were attracted to power
more because of money, more because of instant
wealth. A lot of our young Afenifere men who
followed them are beginning to see that the people
they follow have nothing to offer. The society is
collapsing right in front of their eyes. Even their
generation is becoming more and more hopeless
because of their own misbehaviour. We must go
back to the path of righteousness. Righteousness
helps a nation, so says the Holy book. A country
where there is no righteousness, where all we have
is greed for materialism, such a country is heading
for catastrophe. That is what Nigeria is doing today.
If I may mention, Gov (Bola) Tinubu of Lagos State
became the only surviving Alliance for Democracy
(AD) governor and earns a lot of money. Of course,
coming from such a state that is very rich, he has a
lot of money to throw around. So, a lot of the AD
people believe that whatever thing Tinubu did was
right, especially those who wanted power. Many of
them followed him, now you don’t need to ask
them before they tell you that Tinubu is a dictator.
When Tinubu criticises Obasanjo, that Obasanjo is
dictator, Tinubu is a worse dictator; seven times over
that of Obasanjo. Tinubu as a critic of Obasanjo
combined Obasanjo in Tinubu himself. He has
worked with two deputy governors unsuccessfully.
He started with Kofo Bucknor-Akerele and now Femi
Pedro who has now decided to chart his own course
independently. Many of his commissioners are now
disillusioned that this is not the kind of man they
can follow.
The result of the recent nationwide census has
been released. What is your assessment of the
figures as it concerns the Yoruba?
I have looked at these figures then seen trends
which contradict. For example, it is an established
fact that a lot of people are migrating towards Lagos.
Lagos is becoming more and more congested
everyday. Without talking of absolute numbers, just
talking about the growth of population, it is common
sense that the fastest growing area in the country
should be Lagos State. I am talking now not in
numbers but rate of growth. For a result to now say
that Lagos is not growing as fast as Niger State not in
absolute numbers now but in growth that must be
fiction. Take the case of Yobe and Borno States; they
are being threatened by the desert. The desert is
encroaching more and more on their territories. The
people are being forced to migrate downwards. But
this census figure is telling us that the north is
growing more than the south. If you look at the
figure they allocated in 1991 and the one they have
allocated this time. they indicate that the entire
southern region is not growing as fast as the north.
This is contradiction.
Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who was elected
on the platform of the ruling People democratic
Party(PDP) has defected to the newly registered
Action Congress (AC). How should his case be
handled given the acrimony it has generated in
the polity?
The whole system of governance has been
corrupted. There is not enough regard for decency
and morality any more. Once people abandon what
is right and what is wrong, and they do what is
expedient, all sorts of thing will begin to happen. In
any decent society, a Vice-President who find out
that he can no longer work with his boss either
because they disagree in principle or for whatever
reason, the decent thing to do is to resign. You
cannot stay on as Vice-President to a President,
refusing to leave office and then leading the
opposition against him. It is immoral. On the legal
approach, the constitution says that a president and
Vice -President must come from the same party. One
the Vice-President has abandoned that platform and
has gone to another party that is a violation of the
constitution. But it should be left to the courts to
interpret.
You are a leading member of the newly
registered Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA).
How prepared in specific terms, are you for the
April general elections?
The Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA) is a party of
people who believe that through thick and thin, you
must stand for the principles of politics of service,
not politics of opportunities. DPA stands for politics
of service, politics of non-compromise with evil,
politics of decency.
In a surprise move, General Muhammadu Buhari,
was recently adopted as DPA’s presidential
candidate. Critics believe he should not be given
a chance because of his conservative approach to
national issues. Beside, it is believed that your
organisation committed a similar blunder in 2003
when it adopted President Olusegun Obasanjo as
its candidate. What is your reaction?
Human beings must make choices between the
available options. For the Presidential race this year,
the Yoruba race is not in the position to say it will
contest. We have looked for a candidate among the
other political philosophy. Our initial bias was to say
that it is the turn of the south-south to get to the
office of the President. Ever since Nigeria attained
independence, the south-south has never ruled in
this office for one day. But when all the south-south
aspirants themselves withdrew under pressure from
President Obasanjo, we cannot force them to
contest.
Why didn’t DPA come up with one candidate
then?
We can’t just go and pick someone like Obasanjo
that picked Yar’adua. To support a man for
President, he must be a man who has been thinking
about the job, who has been thinking about what he
wants to be the president for. Who has been
working very hard to study the situation in the
country and how he can improve it. Not a man
sitting down enjoying himself, you will now go and
call him to come and be the president. We have to
look at the active aspirants. We have to look at the
active aspirants. We need a president with certain
qualities. Certain level of patriotism and
commitment. But as a result of intimidation all of
them said, we give up. We are now limited to look
towards the north. Buhari, Atiku and Yar’dua.
From these three which one best represents the
progressive ideals? I think it is Buhari.
Questions are being raised about Buhari’s
culpability in the death of some leaders of the
defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN). These
include the late Chief Olabisi Onabanjo and Prof.
Ambrose Alli. Both men were among scores of
politicians detained in prison when Buhari
aborted Nigeria’s Second Republic. How would
you situate your support for him today with what
he did to these politicians in 1984?
Like I said, you have to choose one that best
approximates your ideals. None of the three leading
candidates form the north is perfect. Every one has
his minus and plus. But the one that best
approximate the progressive ideals is Buhari. The
reason is this: When you talk of human rights record
of Buhari, I agree he might have gone a little too far.
If Buhari had ruled this country for up to eight years
Nigeria will not be the stench it is today. It will not
be an undisciplined country it is today. It will not be
the corrupt country it is today. The Buhari regime
came out to fight all these ills. Even the Bible said
where the evil men are suffering some innocent
men are bound to suffer in the process. I myself I
suffered under Buhari’s regime. I went before
his military tribunal for trial. Fortunately for me I
had enough evidence to proof my innocence and I
was left off. I know as a nationalist and a patriot that
the idea of stopping corrupt people is a very good
one. In fact it is one of the reasons why we need a
Buhari. Nigeria is a country of indisciplined people.
It is a land where people think they can go into
government to steal money and later be crying
human rights. Now when you arrest rouges they talk
of human right, they go to court and ask that EFCC
should not arrest them. I don’t support that kind
of right. The person stealing has violated the right of
millions of people. It is the right of Nigerians to have
free education, free health care services, to live a
good live. Today it has become acceptable that
everybody in high office must steal. We must stop
that, and if that is going to stop, it is someone like
Buhari who can stop it with the cooperation of the
society. When Buhari was Head of State. he did not
steal money compared to Babangida who came to
reverse everything, institutionalize corruption and
all the bad things we have today. Secondly when it
comes to human rights, everybody matures. Buhari
was in his early forties when he became head of
state. He has now had some opportunity to mature.
In the 2004 general election, he believed he was
cheated. He knows what it is to have a democracy.
He contested the result of the election
democratically and constitutionally to the highest
level, the Supreme Court. There are events in life
that changes one’s life. He now knows the
importance of democracy and civil governance. As a
president, he will not combine all the executive and
legislative powers he combined as military Head of
State. In 2005, we marched together in Abuja, and
Buhari, Balarabe Musa, Braithwaite, Ojukwu, and
other progressive were on the streets of Abuja
demonstrating against the dictatorship regime of
Obasanjo. We were being chased by the police. If
you look at Buhari’s programmes, restructuring is
one of his programmes. This is what we have been
calling for. On another note, if you say Buhari did
something to Awolowo it will be wrong to support
him, when we look at those who have done Awolowo
some wrongs, is there any person who is worse than
Obasanjo? What Buhari did to Yoruba progressives
can not be as bad as what Obasanjo did to them. It
was Obasanjo who deprived Awolowo of victory in
1979 and gave it to somebody who was not even
interested in the presidency because an Obasanjo
was not interested in an Awolowo presidency. The
same Obasanjo is who Ebenezer Babatope is
working for today.
A Yoruba has been in the saddle of the nations
affairs for almost eight years now. What is your
assessment of the last eight years and what its
aftermath portends for the Yoruba?
Eight years of Obasanjo administration has been a
complete disaster. Several Yorubas have talked
about Yoruba going to mainstream. Now Yoruba
went into the mainstream with the PDP supposedly
and for the last eight years how has it benefitted us
in anyway? The road between Abule -Egba and
Sango-Otta is impassable after about eight years of
Obasanjo’s rule with Obasanjo in power. Look at
the problem of petrol, in eight years he could not
build refinery that we need to service our people.
We are still importing fuel. Today the refineries are
not any better than he met them when he took over.
Nigerians are still suffering today. Those who
imposed him on us are eager to take power back.
They did not expect him to spend eight years. Many
of them believe he has stepped on their toes, they
are waiting for revenge. As soon as Obasanjo leaves
the place, they will want to exact some pounds of
flesh from us because they believe that Obasanjo
deprived them of certain privileges. The
consequences is that we are going to suffer for his
offences and crimes against those who gave him the
presidency. Obasanjo is now trying to appeal to
them; part of the appeasement is to install Yarâ
€™adua at the expense of the nation. Yar’adua
cannot be a good president for the country. Part of
this appeasement is the census results that have
been released. All these are being done to see that
he remains in the good books of the North and at
the expense of the Yoruba Nation.
The DPA and AC romancing Buhari. How do you
intend to work in a harmonious relationship with
the elements in AC, who you do not seem to like?
The Action Congress has its own presidential
candidate. Neither one is going to step down for the
other. That alliance died the day they were singning
it. There is no way Atiku will step down for Buhari
and there is no way Buhari will step down for Atiku.
They are going to contest against each other.
What is your assessment of INEC’s
preparedness for this year’s election?
When people talk about INEC I laugh because
Obasanjo is INEC. INEC is just an institution
recognized by the constitution. INEC is just as
independent as the police. Obasanjo is INEC.
Obasanjo is the Inspector General of Police. I donâ
€™t believe we can have free and fair election in
Nigeria this year. Already, Obasanjo has decided
who his successor is going to be. He said his policy
must be continued. He has set up a campaign
committee. He is the chairman of the campaign
committee. The president controls INEC. He controls
the police.
But he is an outgoing president……
He will still be there until new president is sworn in.
Until the day the next president is sworn in he is
still the president. Whether Yar’adua wins or he
doesn’t win, he is going to be declared the
winner.
If that is the case, why are the opposition parties
bringing in candidates?
Nigerians don’t face reality.
Are you admitting defeat?
It is not a matter of admitting defeat; I am admitting
reality. If the opposition parties are to live up to
what the people expect of them, they should begin
to protest before the election. In other countries
they would have start protesting right from now.
Performance is hardly a yardstick in assessing
political office holders in Nigeria today. How can
we return the polity to that period when office
seekers will be assessed based on what they
want to do with power instead of the current
practice?
There are three things we can do. First is to reduce
the incidence of corruption and money politics.
Secondly the level of poverty must be reduced. Get
people jobs, get them the means of living. Thirdly,
political education, politics should be what am I
going to do. Make a promise. It is a covenant with
the people. If you vote for me this is what I will do
for you. The people who bastardized the country
deliberately impoverish the people to make the



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Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by dallyemmy: 8:37am On Feb 19, 2015
Say the name of your party (PDP or APC) and don't generalize with ethnicity

The main issues are:
1. Unemployment
2. Insecurity
3. Epileptic power supply
4. Corruption
5. Lawlessness/Abuse of power
6. Militancy
7. Kidnapping
8. Indiscipline
9. Poor health services
10. Poor Economy(Dwindling value of Naira)

Whosoever has the capacity to tackle these I will vote for:
Re: Yoruba Group Accuses Buhari Of Pretending To Be A Progressive by Pinkybush: 8:39am On Feb 19, 2015
Even Buhari himself does not know the meaning of "progressive", else he wouldn't have toured the whole country calling for change in the name of him being a progressive. But my biggest concern is how some youths have been easily deceive to join the "dark train" (APC) and call for "CHANGE" without asking, who is the messiah to bring this change? As far as history is concern Buhari is not the messiah we need.

Vote GEJ!
Vote TRANSFORMATION!!

PRESIDENT GEJ TILL 2019

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