Beaf: Check out the album sleeve of Fela's beast of no nation. Can you notice that Idiagbon is portrayed as much bigger than Buhari, who in turn is potrayed as only a secondary figure?
That is because Ifiagbon was the defacto ruler, while Buhari spent his loafing around since the NNPC documents had been destroyed.

If you look in the right hand corner, you will notice the judge lying protrate before Fela after begging him for wrongfully jailing him.

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Beaf:
General Tunde Idiagbon was a no nonsense, unsmiling, morally upright, disciplined guy. A man of few words.

[size=14pt]The late, Great General Tunde Idiagbon[/size]

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Ibime:

Please make una leave the mad man Beaf.

He is prone to such meltdowns.

Maybe his Jamo wife left him as per se he no get better thing doing than type nonsense all day.

The frustrated man is so confused, he tagged Idiagbon as[b] "the late great Idiagbon"[/b]

We thank God for the greatness of that Government whether you ascribe it to Idiagbon or Buhari (who gave Idiagbon carte blanche to enact the reforms Beaf so much likes).

If only Nnamadi Sambo could do the same for GEJ since he is incapable of doing anything but stealing Nigeria dry, buying out every Tom, Dick and Harry, wiping out the Nations accounts, putting the Nation in renewed debt; and failing to pay monthly allocations to two tiers of Government and NYSC corpers despite presiding over the largest oil revenues Nigeria has ever received even accounting for inflation.

[size=14pt]Buhari is Definitely Not the Anwser[/size]
By
Nafata Bamaguje
bamaguje@googlemail.com

Several weeks ago when Professor Wole Soyinka took a swipe at General Buhari as a presidential candidate, there was an avalanche of angry northern responses condemning the Nobel laureate's attack on their favoured candidate. Most of the responses however did little to address the salient issues raised by the Professor in his critique. Even when they did their responses were puerile and insulting to the intelligence of Nigerians.

A case in point is Mohammed Haruna's absurd rationalization of Buhari's double standard in confining Shagari to house arrest while jailing other political detainees including the erstwhile Vice president who exercised no power in the ill-fated 2nd republic. Mallam Haruna would have us believe that Shagari's house arrest was actually worse than being jailed in Nigeria's notoriously inhospitable gulag, on the grounds that Shagari was in solitary confinement. Apparently solitary confinement (if at all that was the objective) is not possible in prison, only in the comfort of a furnished flat.

Other pro-Buhari agitators vainly tried to box us into a false dilemma. Since the Nobel Laureate condemned the presidential candidature of both Buhari and Yar'Adua, who were Nigerians supposed to vote for ? This is a dim-witted question in nation of 140 million people with more than 40 political parties and over 20 presidential candidates.

In his critique, Professor Soyinka amply documented Buhari's numerous human right abuses for which the arrogant, unrepentant General never expressed any remorse nor apologies even when offered the opportunity at the Oputa panel. Yet his sycophants would have Nigerians entrust him with executive presidential powers. What's the guarantee that he won't turn out to be another tyrant like Obasanjo - notorious for his appalling abuse of presidential powers ?

The General's selling point appears to be the hype about his supposed moral integrity, which will supposedly translate to eradication of corruption. A trip down memory lane however tells us different. Under the late dark-goggled General, Buhari presided over PTF (petroleum trust fund), which was later revealed to be a cesspool of corruption. If the supposedly incorruptible Daura general couldn't stop corruption in PTF, then he obviously can't be trusted to eradicate corruption from Nigeria. Let's not forget that Obasanjo, Nigeria's present failure, made similar anti-corruption noises at the inception of his maladministration in 1999.

[b]The infamous 53 suitcase saga during Buhari's 20 month military misrule also raises questions about his commitment to the eradication of corruption. A northern Emir was accosted by Custom agents at Lagos international airport with 53 suitcases of currency in direct violation of the prevailing laws. Buhari redeployed the principled customs officer – our current embattled vice president – who apprehended the Emir, while allowing the sacred cow Emir to go scot free. Ironically in several circles today, that principled customs officer - vice president Atiku Abubakar - is portrayed as corrupt while Buhari is hailed as incorruptible.

Contrast Buhari's kid's glove, pat-on-the-back for the 53-suitcase Emir, with Fela's unjust imprisonment ostensibly for failing to declare his own hard earned foreign currency. The truth of the matter is that the vindictive Buhari never forgave the late Afrobeat maestro for his popular hit tune Army Arrangement, in which Fela sang about the 2.8 billion Naira that reportedly disappeared from our nation's oil accounts while Buhari was petroleum minister. In the song, Fela captured the public cynicism of government denial of the scandal…not surprising, given the poor credibility of most Nigerian governments… Dem set up enquiry, Dem say money no lose O ![/b]

To any discerning mind, Buhari's discriminatory enforcement of the law enforcement a.k.a. "selective justice" vis-à-vis Shagari / Ekwueme detention, and Fela / 54 case Emir currency violations clearly indicate that the general is no different from Nigeria's present tormentor, Obasanjo who is using EFCC to witch-hunt and persecute his political adversaries.

It is common knowledge that one of Nigeria's major problems is our economic malaise and underdevelopment. General Buhari's actions as military head of state suggest that he is bereft of some of the basic economic principles required for running a nation's economy. Faced with the scarcity of "essenco" (essential commodities) during his regime, our Daura General came up with the brilliant brainwave of sending armed soldiers to forcibly break into shops and compel traders to sell goods below their purchase price. Even today as the 2007 presidential campaign heats up, Buhari - like several other presidential candidates – is yet to enunciate sound economic policies to transform Nigeria.

[b]Then there is the issue of Buhari's pseudo-religious demagoguery, which has sometimes been mistaken for religious fanaticism. At the height of Nigeria's Sharia crisis when there was a real danger of Nigeria being torn apart along religious lines, the General added fuel to the raging Sharia fire that was threatening to consume the nation by supporting the promulgation of discriminatory religious laws in our multi-religious country contrary to our secular constitution. Buhari failed to rise above sectional ethno-religious interests as was expected of a former head of state and presumed statesman.

If the General really believed in Sharia law, why didn't he promulgate it as military head of state ? One is therefore forced to conclude that the general was simply playing to the northern gallery – hypocritical religious demagoguery for cheap popularity among the northern masses, hence his undeserved saintly reputation. Or perhaps he was a coward who lacked the guts to prosecute the Sharia Jihad while he was in power. The General later compounded matters by publicly instructing Muslims to only vote for Muslims. His sycophants and propagandists have unconvincingly tried to deny or "explain" his statement, but the arrogant general never bothered.[/b]

Perhaps because of his self-serving judicial battle against Obasanjo's infamous 419 re-election in 2003, Buhari has been misleadingly promoted in some quarters as a "champion of democracy". In the run-up to the 2003 gubernatorial election in Kano state, Ibrahim "Little" Amin won the ANPP nomination fair and square, and was publicly declared as such. Saint Buhari, the democrat was instrumental to scheming out Mallam Amin and imposing the current Kano state governor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau. It just goes to show that if Buhari had been Obasanjo's shoes in 2003, he would have rigged the election just as like OBJ.

Nigerians should be wary of recycling leaders who have failed us before. Obasanjo's disastrous presidency in the face of enormous oil revenues is more than enough lesson. As has been painstakingly elucidated above, Buhari presidency would be no different from Obasanjo's current ruinous misrule.

Nafata Bamaguje
Gargajiya quarters
Daura, Katsina state

ABUJA, May 13 (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is coming under pressure to prosecute top officials implicated in a $6.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud, but many of the suspects are allies he is unlikely to go after if wants to keep his power base intact.

It has been three weeks since parliament produced a report detailing massive corruption in a state subsidised petrol import scheme and Jonathan has yet to indicate how he intends to respond.

Inaction on one of the biggest corruption scandals in Nigerian history will hurt Jonathan's reformist credentials and further alienate his government from a disillusioned population. It could also prompt major public protests.

oyb: mad beaf inna house

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yo speaker for the drinkard, have you not found your way to this thread yet?

https://www.nairaland.com/937930/president-jonathan-unlikely-risk-oil

[size=18pt]ABUJA, May 13 (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is coming under pressure to prosecute top officials implicated in a $6.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud, but many of the suspects are allies he is unlikely to go after if wants to keep his power base intact.

It has been three weeks since parliament produced a report detailing massive corruption in a state subsidised petrol import scheme and Jonathan has yet to indicate how he intends to respond.

Inaction on one of the biggest corruption scandals in Nigerian history will hurt Jonathan's reformist credentials and further alienate his government from a disillusioned population. It could also prompt major public protests.[/size]

Even Buhari's gang of hypocrites are saying the same thing.

[size=14pt]El-Rufai insists Buhari is unelectable [/size]
By Segun Balogun

Mohammadu Buhari’s record as a military head of state will perpetually render him unelectable because Nigerians will never desire a repeat of such administration, said Nasir El-Rufai, former FCT Minister.

Reacting to statements made by the Mohammadu Buhari’s party, Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), regarding the advice he gave the retired army general to retire from politics, Mr. El-Rufai, in a statement on Monday, said age is certainly a factor in the coming presidential election since Ibrahim Babangida has already defamed young Nigerians as unfit for national leadership.

[size=14pt]“While it is true that neither youth nor age supplies wisdom on their own, it makes sense to ask those who have been recurring decimals in our country’s sorry history to leave the stage. I’m amazed that General Buhari cannot debate this matter without scurrying to the gutter, making claims that are baseless and unsupported by any facts,” said Mr. El-Rufai, describing Mr. Buhari’s leadership style as parochial and insensitive to Nigeria’s diverse background.[/size]

He asked whether “the failure [of Mr. Buhari and Mr. Babangida] to do their best for Nigeria when they had the chance qualifies them for a return to office. Our people surely deserve better.”

He was obviously irked by the claims made by CPC regarding his administration as a federal minister, describing them as fictitious and prejudicial.

“Despite the difficult decisions that had to be taken to restore Abuja, Mallam El-Rufai continues to receive deserved praise and recognition for his achievements in restoring the Abuja master plan, introducing Nigeria’s first computerised land registry, and helping thousands of Nigerians achieve their dreams of home ownership in the federal capital,” the statement said.

A reminder

“In 1984, Buhari allowed 53 suitcases belonging to his ADC’s father, to enter Nigeria unchecked, at a time the country was exchanging old currency for new. Against all canons of legal decency, he used retroactive laws to execute three young men for drug-peddling after they were convicted by a military tribunal, and not regular courts of law.

“Buhari was so high handed that he gave himself and his officials immunity, even from truthful reporting. That obnoxious Decree 4, against which truth was no defence, was used to jail journalists and attempt to cow the media as a whole. That tyrannical legislation shows the essence of his intolerance.

These are facts of recent history,” the statement said.

A new mindset

Mr. El-Rufai said it will take more than slander to become electable in 2011 because Nigerians will rather cherish an intellectual discourse about their daily problems.

While saying he still respects both Buhari and Babangida as elder statesmen, he emphasised his belief that their age, experience, and guidance are best used to contribute to the success of any future government.

Mr. Buhari, according to him, is not the kind of leader that can move the country forward because “now is the time for a new generation of leaders with new thinking and wholesome democratic attitude.

[size=14pt]“The vicious response by the Buhari camp to a simple statement that their almost-70 principal should retire, is proof enough that a Buhari, the new Democrat, tolerant of views different from his own, is yet to evolve. And that is sad, for his fledgling party and its leadership,” the statement said.[/size]

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5626686-146/el-rufai_insists_buhari_is_unelectable_.csp

kingoflag: If FELA was alive GEJ would have drank Rat poison on Live TV after dem don yab am finish.

[size=14pt]No wonder Buhari knows so much about dogs and baboons... Fela prophesied long ago![/size]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zhA2pxthkI[/flash]

Ah - Let’s get now into another, underground spiritual game
Just go to help me the answer, go to say, "Aiya-kata"- Oh ya

O’feshe-Lu
[Chorus] Aiya kata
O’feshe- g’Ba

O’feshe-Woh
[Chorus] Aiya kata
O’feshe-Weng
Aiya kata
Aiya Koto
Aiya Kiti
Aiya Kutu

O’feshe-Lu
[Chorus] Aiya kata
O’feshe- g’Ba

Oh,

Basket mouth wan start to leak again, oh-
[Chorus] Basket mouth wan open mouth again, oh
Abi you don forget I say I sing, ee-oh
[Chorus] Basket mouth wan open mouth again, oh
Oh, I sing, I say, I go my mouth like basket, ee-oh, Malan Bia-gbe-re

Basket mouth wan start to leak again, oh-
[Chorus] Basket mouth wan open mouth again, oh

Fela, wetin you go sing about?
[Chorus] Dem go worry me…

Dem go worry me, worry me-- worry, worry, worry, worry
[Chorus] Dem go worry me
Dey wan to make us sing about prison
Dem go worry me, worry me-- worry, worry all over da town
Dey wan to know about prison life
Dem go worry me, worry me-- worry, worry all over da town

Fela, wetin you go sing about?
[Chorus] Dem go worry me
Dem go worry me, worry me-- worry, worry, worry, worry

The time weh I dey, for prison, I call am “inside world”
The time weh I dey outside prison, I call am “outside world”
Na craze world, na be outside world

[Chorus] Craze world
Na be outside- da police-i dey
Na be outside- da soldier dey
Na be outside- da court dem dey
Na be outside- da magistrate dey
Na be outside- da judge dem dey
Na craze world be dat
[size=14pt]Na be outside- Buhari dey
Na craze man be dat
Animal in craze-man skin-i
Na craze world be dat
Na be outside- Idia-gbon dey
Na craze man be dat- oh
Animal in craze-man skin-i
Na craze world be dat
Na be outside- dem find me guilty
Na be outside- dem jail me five years
I no do nothing
Na be outside-dem judge dey beg ee-o
Na craze world be dat, Na craze world be dat
Na be outside- dem kill dem students
Soweto, Zaria, and Ife
Na craze world be dat, ee-oh
Na craze world be dat,
Na be outside- all dis dey happen[/size]
Na craze world be dat, ee-oh
Na craze world be dat, ee-oh
Na craze world be dat, ee-oh
Na craze world be dat, ee-oh
Na craze world be dat, ee-oh…,

[size=14pt]Make you hear this one
War against indiscipline, ee-oh

Na Nigerian government, ee-oh
Dem dey talk ee-oh
“My people are us-e-less, My people are sens-i-less, My people are indiscipline”

Na Nigerian government, ee-oh
Dem dey talk be dat
“My people are us-e-less, My people are sens-i-less, My people are indiscipline”

I never hear dat before- oh
Make Government talk, ee-oh
“My people are us-e-less, My people are sens-i-less, My people are indiscipline”

Na Nigerian government, ee-oh
Dem dey talk be dat
Which kind talk be dat- oh?
Craze talk be dat ee-oh
Na animal talk be dat – oh
Na animal talk be dat – oh

[Chorus] Many leaders as you see dem
[Chorus] Na different disguise dem dey-oh
[Chorus] Animals in human skin
[Chorus] Animal-I put-u tie-oh
[Chorus] Animal-I wear agbada
[Chorus] Animal-I put-u suit-u[/size]

These disguising leaders ee-oh, na wah for dem
Dem-o hold meeting everywhere, dem reach America

Dem call the place, the “United Nations”
Hear-oh another animal talk
Wetin united inside “United Nations”?
Who & who unite, for “United Nations”?
No be there Thatcher & Argentina dey
No be there Reagan & Libya dey
Is-i-rael versus Lebanon
Iran-i-oh versus Iraq-i
East West Block versus West Block East
No be there dem dey oh- United Nations
Dis “united” United Nations
One veto vote is equal to 92 […or more, or more]
What kind sense be dat, na animal sense

[Chorus] Many leaders as you see dem
[Chorus] Na different disguise dem dey-oh
[Chorus] Animals in human skin
[Chorus] Animal-I put-u tie-oh
[Chorus] Animal-I wear agbada
[Chorus] Animal-I put-u suit-u

[size=14pt]Dem go hold meeting, oh, Dem go start yab human beings
Animal talk don start again
Dash dem, human rights

Dem go hold meeting, oh, Dem go start yab human beings
Animal talk don start again
Dash dem human rights

How animal go know-say dem no born me as slave?
How animal go know say slave trade don pass?
And, dey wan dash us human rights
Animal must talk to human beings
Give dem human rights

I beg-I, oh, make you hear me well-u well
I beg-I, oh, make you hear me very well

Human rights na my property
So therefore, you can’t dash me my property
Human rights na my property
Dey wan dash us human rights

Some people say, “Why I dey talk like dis,
No be talk like dis, dem take to carry me go prision ee-oh”
No be me dey talk, na Prime Minister Botha dey talk, ee-oh

Him say, “this uprising will bring out the beast in us”
[Chorus] this uprising will bring out the beast in us[/size]

Eh Ji Keke- my argument

Botha na friend to Thatcher & Reagan
Botha na friend to some other leaders too
And together dem wan dash us human rights
Animals wan dash us human rights
Animal can’t dash me human rights
Animal can’t dash us human rights

[Chorus] Many leaders as you see dem
[Chorus] Na different disguise dem dey-oh
[Chorus] Animals in human skin
[Chorus] Animal-I put-u tie-oh
[Chorus] Animal-I wear agbada
[Chorus] Animal-I put-u suit-u

Beasts of no nation- Egbe Ke Gbe na bad society

[CHORUS] Beasts of no nation, egbe ke gbe
[CHORUS] Beasts of no nation, oturu gbe ke

Easy… easy

GenBuhari: [size=28pt]BEAF - Stop you lies !! [/size]

GenBuhari: ^
[size=38pt]BEAF - Stop your lies !! [/size]

Kc3000: [b]I find myself in agreement with Beaf. Buhari probably marvels at the extent of retrograde amnesia that pervades the collective Nigerian psyche, as he grins in unbelief at the messianic status he suddenly enjoys. When a man of Wole Soyinka's prominence takes it upon himself to refresh a nation's memory of the ignoble character known as Buhari, one would expect a hint of attentiveness from those being cautioned. The problem, I sense, is that some people have unwittingly let their displeasure with the contemporary government guide them into the void of outright stupidity, in believing that Buhari has anything tangible to offer this country.
Nevertheless, I've frequently wondered how Idiagbon is often cited as the true authority in the Buhari regime, yet is never apportioned much blame for the atrocities of the regime. If he was truly the man in charge, then history must hold him accountable accordingly. It's faulty to attribute whatever good that came out of the regime to Idiagbon, and saddle Buhari with the negatives, as is often done. [/b]

Beaf: [size=14pt]Still Soyinka on Buhari[/size]

But then, speaking the truth was not what Buhari, as a self-imposed leader, was especially enamoured of enquire of Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor both of whom, faithful to their journalistic calling, published nothing but the truth, yet ended up sentenced under Buhari’s decree. Mind you, no one can say that Buhari was not true to his word. shall tamper with the freedom of the press swore the dictator immediately on grabbing office, and this was exactly what he did. And so on, and on, and on.

http://www.republicreport.com/the-crimes-of-buhari-wole-soyinka/