What Buhari
never said2015-01-09 20:31Let 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 continuelate
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 was 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-electionBuhari 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.ht
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.Also read: Dear
Buhari!When Buhari wiped out
Maitatsine inAdamawa 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 opponentand 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.Proverbs 19:9
says… who breathes out lies will
perish.Indeed the liars shall perish. For
“Their throat is an open grave; they use
their tongues to deceive.” “The venom
of asps is under their lips.” Romans 3:13
ESV.- MyNews24

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