Akainzo:

It is instructive that you are responding to a post on abusive language by using the very same abusive language  

Is it that their minds have been violated or that the minds of the PDP supporters have been so violated that they have now come to accept rubbish as standard. PDP has so bastardised the populace that we have almost come to even accept rigging as part of elections. Some would ask that, what will happen if you vote, so therefore why vote?

You refer to Buhari as fanatical, can you please give me the pointers that make you refer to him as such. The ones I can remember are:
1. He fanatically supports good for the common man. Common man in Kano or common man in the entire Nigeria?

2. He fanatically opposes corruption. Yes like the corruption by the ABACHAS, hence he is rewarding the family with a governorship ticket afterall, some of the campaign funds are coming from Mohammed abacha, Yes corruption but was probably asleep when there was massive corruption in PTF that made one of the key officers commit suicide when PTF books where audited.

3. He fanatically preaches integrity and diligence. He preaches integrity but said in 2008 memorial service for sanni abacha that the corruption claims on abacha were mere fabrications.

4. He fanatically supported democracy once he decided to embrace it. Kindly tell me when he finally woke up to embrace it? at the age of 50? 60?.  O yes i remember he was in support of abacha kind of democracy when all political parties adopted abacha. " five fingers of a leprous hand".Tell me what Buhari as the honourable you claim did when abacha was morking democracy.  Kindly explain why in 20 months as HEAD OF STATE , there was no plan whatsoever to return us to democratic rule. Oh Sorry i remember he decided to embrace it when the PTF purse dried up and he decided to go for the bigger pie(presidency) in 2003

5. He fanatically believes that Nigeria can be great. And so?
If you have some others forms of fanatism that he displays, I would appreciate that you list them out. Otherwise, stop blowing smoke.

Soyinka: Why Nigeria must shun Buhari, Yar'adua
The Statesman , 17/01/2007


Wole Soyinka

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka Monday disparaged the candidature of the All Nigeria Peoples Party presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari and his Peoples Democratic Party counterpart, the Katsina State governor, Alhaji Umar Musa Yar'Adua, saying neither of them is fit to be president.

The Nobel Laureate, who spoke in Lagos on the State of the Nation, described Buhari as "one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order,” adding that crimes committed against the polity “must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining.”

According to him, “the grounds on which 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.”

Soyinka noted that Buhari was one of the past heads of state, who treated “a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain,” and refused to put in an 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 citizenry.”

Accusing the ANPP presidential candidate of judicial murder, Soyinka alleged that Buhari executed three citizens under a retroactive Decree 20 of 1984 when Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) were shot for offences committed before the decree was enacted.

The trio were executed by the Buhari regime over alleged drug trafficking.

But Soyinka argued Monday that one of the three men - 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,” he said further.

Continuing, Soyinka justified the action of Buhari as “nothing short of premeditated murder for which the perpetrators should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity,” stressing that he has also refused to apologise since leaving office.

“Since leaving office, he (Buhari) has declared in the most categorical terms that he had no regrets over this murder and would do so again,” he said. He also said the ANPP candidate has a “profound negation of civic being,” recalling further that when (Buhari) was “not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms,” he “specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule.”

Soyinka listed the incarceration of the late social critic, Tai Solarin, adding that the nation must not omit the manner in which Buhari assumed power “and the pattern of his 'corrective’ rule.

“The head of government, on whom the primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cosy house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kirikiri prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and /or responsibility,” he asserted.

He also alleged that Buhari sat over a regime that “was not merely one of double, triple, multiple standards but a cynical travesty of justice” which, in his words, reserved the utmost severity of the justice 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 Ooni 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,” he further said.

Soyinka submitted that the argument being canvassed in certain quarters that by endorsing Buhari they have settled for someone who can be guaranteed to give Obasanjo and the PDP a good fight, is “one of the most depressing excuses I ever encountered for placing a political noose around a nation’s neck.

“Buhari owes a debt to this nation, not the other way round. If Buhari wishes to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the citizenry whom he has so cruelly wronged, he should first scuttle his ambitions, then place whatever following he has garnered in the meantime at the disposal of a consensus candidate among the opposition.

“To insist on another taste of power, after such a history of gross abuse of power is an insult to any nation that values freedom and human dignity. Buhari should sit with the opposition and coordinate strategies to defeat the most unscrupulous act of political gerrymandering that, we all know, is about to be inflicted on the nation by a desperate incumbent seeking for a clone to secure his exit from power.”

Soyinka, who said he has nothing against the person of Yar’Adua, however described his candidature as “a terminal kiss from a moribund regime.” He said if the Katsina governor wants to be considered for the Presidency on his own merit, “now is time for him, as well as others similarly enmeshed, to exercise the moral courage that goes with his repudiation of that party, a dissociation from its past, and a pledge to reverse its menacing future.

“We shall find him an alternative platform on which to stand, then have him present his credentials along those of other candidates engaged in forging a credible opposition alliance,” he advised the PDP presidential flag bearer.

debosky:

Hold your horses aletheia. . . .GEJ supporters are no saints either. Just go through the politics section to see the degree of insults and threats they have also poured out.

The thing is, there is little distinguishing both sides - both are prone to overzealousness and BOTH sides should be cautioned to exercise restraint, instead of peddling a false reality that only Buhari supporters are predisposed to violence.

Orikinla:

Only a FOOL would be so daft to misinform people by the misinterpretation of Buhari's statement.

na_so:

You refer to Buhari as fanatical, can you please give me the pointers that make you refer to him as such. The ones I can remember are:
1. He fanatically supports good for the common man. Common man in Kano or common man in the entire Nigeria?

2. He fanatically opposes corruption. Yes like the corruption by the ABACHAS, hence he is rewarding the family with a governorship ticket afterall, some of the campaign funds are coming from Mohammed abacha, Yes corruption but was probably asleep when there was massive corruption in PTF that made one of the key officers commit suicide when PTF books where audited.

3. He fanatically preaches integrity and diligence. He preaches integrity but said in 2008 memorial service for sanni abacha that the corruption claims on abacha were mere fabrications.

4. He fanatically supported democracy once he decided to embrace it. Kindly tell me when he finally woke up to embrace it? at the age of 50? 60?.  O yes i remember he was in support of abacha kind of democracy when all political parties adopted abacha. " five fingers of a leprous hand".Tell me what Buhari as the honourable you claim did when abacha was morking democracy.  Kindly explain why in 20 months as HEAD OF STATE , there was no plan whatsoever to return us to democratic rule. Oh Sorry i remember he decided to embrace it when the PTF purse dried up and he decided to go for the bigger pie(presidency) in 2003
5. He fanatically believes that Nigeria can be great. And so?
If you have some others forms of fanatism that he displays, I would appreciate that you list them out. Otherwise, stop blowing smoke.

aletheia:


And in big fonts at that. I maintain that it is precisely just this sort of intolerance that is a hallmark of the Buhari campaign this year. Did I insult Orinkinla in any way by what I posted. Did I even insult Buhari himself?

Odunnu:

With due respect Mr Akainzo, you are writing thrash, Sir.

jmaine:

Taaa ! to all Buhari proponents when PAT Utomi is still alive and kicking.   .

aletheia:

^^^Sir, Utomi talk say, him no dey do again.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2011033016322879

ziccoit:

You don't need to reply as I don't have interest in what you might want to put forward as response.

ziccoit:


This is to all GEJ/PDP supporters, in the words of Prof. Pat Utomi "Our country is not working and yet we cannot replace those who are failing the country"

Your children and unborn generations curses will, by the grace of God, be upon you by choosing to ply the road of corruptions and bad governance.

Maybe PDP will rig (since it is their signature - crazy murrasuckers Wink), maybe CPC will rig (Presidency), maybe ANPP or even the ACN will rig too but then again, has any of you really done your homework to know if Buhari stands a chance to Jonathan (The 2 most discussed in this site). CPC as a party does NOT own a single ward how much more a state and yet Buhari wants to be made president? How is that possible? I've listened to people ON GROUND analyze the matter and it is clear cut that Buhari stands no chance and I mean, no chance - Ribadu will get there first before Buhari and that is what is called POLITRICKS. It is also annoying that Goodluck going by his present form (being controlled) is gonna retain that seat.