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Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by 9jafreak: 8:59pm On Dec 18, 2014
First of all, I congratulate you warmly for winning the nomination of your party for the presidency of Nigeria.

Though you and I are different in ethnicity and religion, we have many important things in common. I am a few years older than you – which means that if you and I had been Yoruba boys born in the same Yoruba town or village, we would have belonged to about the same age-grade Association ( with us Yoruba, age-grade loyalty is traditionally a very important factor of life). Moreover, you and I were young Nigerians in an era, the 1950s, when our up-and coming country of Nigeria was a source of great pride to its citizens, and an emerging titan eagerly awaited by most informed people all over the world.



The three regions of our federation (East, North and West) were engaged in an ambitious rivalry for progress and for improvements in the quality of life of our people. They were able to do that and achieve considerable successes because our constitutional structure gave them much leeway to manage their own affairs within the common Nigerian family. We arrived at independence in 1960 believing that our country was set on the path to becoming the blackman’s world power of modern times.

Unhappily, now that you and I are in our seventies, there is nothing left of our country’s ambitions and pride – indeed, there is hardly anything left of our country itself. Relentlessly crooked up, violated, robbed and depleted since 1960, our Nigeria seems now to be stumbling towards its demise.

As you prepare for your election, I decided to write you this open letter concerning our country, because I know you will understand the pain and expectations behind my words. The purpose of most of Nigeria’s rulers since 1960 has been to weaken and even destroy regional and local initiatives in order to gather all power, control and influence together at the federal center. Their success in doing that has enabled them to remove the management of development far away from our people, and to institute at the federal centre a viciously corrupt, wasteful and incompetent monstrosity. Reduced to the status of beggar clients of the federal robber barons, the state governments, as well as the local governments, collapsed and fell in line as submissive incompetents and mini-robbers.

In the process, real and productive enterprise quickly declined among our people, as the best and most ambitious rushed to join the ranks of the sharers of fraudulently acquired wealth from the public coffers. Our schools and universities, our public service, our police force, our military, our judiciary, all our governmental agencies (electoral commission, secret service, central bank, ports service, immigration service, public examination bodies, etc) – all collapsed under the weight of crooked control, massive corruption and generalized disloyalty. Poverty descended mightily into our country and became the lot of the overwhelming and increasing majority of our people. Our government itself admits that, today, about 70% of our citizens live in “absolute poverty” and that that percentage keeps increasing. With the growing poverty have escalated horrific crimes, a culture of dishonesty, a rush of our youths to Salafist fundamentalist terrorism, and mass flights of the educated to other lands – all of which are compounding the poverty.

From your well-known record as a leader of our country, I know that you are not only aware of these things, but that, in common with many members of our generation, you are seriously pained by them. I confess that I was very angry with you during your brief stint as military ruler, 1983-5. First, you seemed to me to be power-drunk at the time—because you made no distinction between the corrupt who had been stealing and sharing public money under Shagari and those who were known to have been resisting the robbery. I belonged to the frontline of senators who were well known to have, on the floor of the Senate, resisted the mass corruption, and yet your military government detained me (and many like me), and I languished for four months in prison without any accusation–even without being asked any question by any official.

And then, you and Idiagbon expended most of your obviously shining capabilities in pursuing nebulous and amateurish programmes like WAI (War Against Indiscipline), when what our country really needed was (after you had fiercely shot down corruption as you did) to massively divert our enormous oil revenues into investments in the lives of our people–through programmes for expansion and diversification of education, modern job skills development, entrepreneurial development, small business development, promotion of modern farming, policies for improving the quality and reputation of our labour force and thereby attracting investments and businesses into our country, policies for promotion of exports, etc. Put a people to work and persistently multiply the economic opportunities available to them, and the attraction to prosperity through competitive enterprise will gradually suppress indiscipline in their land. Fanciful programmes like WAI can have no lasting benefit or future – as I hope you must know by now. That is why the man who ousted you, Babangida, was able quite easily to wipe out all the patriotic gains of your regime.

Furthermore, I though t it was a pity that you did not appear to recognize that the over-centralization that was being given to our federation was the foundation of our ills as a country. You were wrong in thinking that punishing the corrupt leaders would destroy corruption abidingly. What is needed is to change the system into which corruption has been built. In our country’s case, we needed (and we need) to reduce the magnitude of our federal government and empower our state and local governments, which are nearer the people, to bear most of the burden of development. Then we need to give recognition and respect to our various nationalities in structuring the federation – which should mean that our larger nations would each constitute a state, and contiguous groups of our smaller nationalities would be assisted to form states, just as the Indians sensibly and profitably did in the 1960s.

By refusing to go that route, Nigeria has abysmally depressed its nationalities. For instance, my Yoruba nation came into Nigeria in 1914 as easily the fastest modernizing nationality in Black Africa; and we entered into independence with Nigeria in 1960 as the development front-liner and pace-setter in Africa. Today, we are a battered, poor, and disoriented nation, and most of our achievements have been wrecked, thanks to our being part of a Nigeria that destroys its peoples. Every other Nigerian nationality has similar stories to tell. My brother, I am, by nature and by upbringing, averse to merely lamenting an evil development; I act to change it. My potential urge, even as I write this, is to exert myself with others like me towards pulling my Yoruba nation out of Nigeria if Nigeria will not change course – and that is something that we Yoruba are perfectly capable to achieve if we are pushed to start upon it. And the same is true of some other persons and nations. In short, let’s not ignore or minimize the danger of Nigeria’s dissolution.

I know you have what it takes to change and save Nigeria. I wish you luck in your election – and I wish Nigeria luck.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/18/letter-gen-buhari-prof-banji-akintoye

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by 9jafreak: 9:00pm On Dec 18, 2014
My opinion:
1. This is the MOST PERFECT & MOST SUCCINCT summation of Nigeria's history, woes, and potentials ever!
2. Once again the Yoruba Nation will decide who 'lords over' over-centralized One Nigeria. But we are no fools. We mostly supported President Jonathan in 2011 and will mostly support Gen. Buhari in 2015 but the core question of our unfettered capacity to properly govern our nation within the Nigerian experiment remains at the height of our deepest desires.
3. And by God we will pull out of Nigeria if the General refuses to heed the words of wisdom.
4. To be honest, we have nothing really to lose in 2015. Jonathan in fact may lead Nigeria faster to the seemingly inevitable disintegration than GMB. We wait even as we plan...

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by 9jafreak: 9:03pm On Dec 18, 2014
Dear Admin,
Please if you would be so kind to put this on FP. Thanks.

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by iamodenigbo1(m): 9:09pm On Dec 18, 2014
good, to your tent op Israel

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by MayorofLagos(m): 9:25pm On Dec 18, 2014
Op, thanks to you for this article.

This should be framed and hung in Buhari's Office when he starts to live in Aso Rock.

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by akandea(m): 9:38pm On Dec 18, 2014
Yes GEJ misused his opportunity as President of Nigeria, so let see if GMB can convince of a doing a good job of leading Nigeria out of this cataclysmal mess Nigeria is in. Four years is enough time to do that, it obvious GEJ. Is clueless on how to lead this country aright or he isn't willing to do so.

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by knowledgeable: 9:39pm On Dec 18, 2014
9jafreak:
First of all, I congratulate you warmly for winning the nomination of your party for the presidency of Nigeria.

Though you and I are different in ethnicity and religion, we have many important things in common. I am a few years older than you – which means that if you and I had been Yoruba boys born in the same Yoruba town or village, we would have belonged to about the same age-grade Association ( with us Yoruba, age-grade loyalty is traditionally a very important factor of life). Moreover, you and I were young Nigerians in an era, the 1950s, when our up-and coming country of Nigeria was a source of great pride to its citizens, and an emerging titan eagerly awaited by most informed people all over the world.



The three regions of our federation (East, North and West) were engaged in an ambitious rivalry for progress and for improvements in the quality of life of our people. They were able to do that and achieve considerable successes because our constitutional structure gave them much leeway to manage their own affairs within the common Nigerian family. We arrived at independence in 1960 believing that our country was set on the path to becoming the blackman’s world power of modern times.

Unhappily, now that you and I are in our seventies, there is nothing left of our country’s ambitions and pride – indeed, there is hardly anything left of our country itself. Relentlessly crooked up, violated, robbed and depleted since 1960, our Nigeria seems now to be stumbling towards its demise.

As you prepare for your election, I decided to write you this open letter concerning our country, because I know you will understand the pain and expectations behind my words. The purpose of most of Nigeria’s rulers since 1960 has been to weaken and even destroy regional and local initiatives in order to gather all power, control and influence together at the federal center. Their success in doing that has enabled them to remove the management of development far away from our people, and to institute at the federal centre a viciously corrupt, wasteful and incompetent monstrosity. Reduced to the status of beggar clients of the federal robber barons, the state governments, as well as the local governments, collapsed and fell in line as submissive incompetents and mini-robbers.

In the process, real and productive enterprise quickly declined among our people, as the best and most ambitious rushed to join the ranks of the sharers of fraudulently acquired wealth from the public coffers. Our schools and universities, our public service, our police force, our military, our judiciary, all our governmental agencies (electoral commission, secret service, central bank, ports service, immigration service, public examination bodies, etc) – all collapsed under the weight of crooked control, massive corruption and generalized disloyalty. Poverty descended mightily into our country and became the lot of the overwhelming and increasing majority of our people. Our government itself admits that, today, about 70% of our citizens live in “absolute poverty” and that that percentage keeps increasing. With the growing poverty have escalated horrific crimes, a culture of dishonesty, a rush of our youths to Salafist fundamentalist terrorism, and mass flights of the educated to other lands – all of which are compounding the poverty.

From your well-known record as a leader of our country, I know that you are not only aware of these things, but that, in common with many members of our generation, you are seriously pained by them. I confess that I was very angry with you during your brief stint as military ruler, 1983-5. First, you seemed to me to be power-drunk at the time—because you made no distinction between the corrupt who had been stealing and sharing public money under Shagari and those who were known to have been resisting the robbery. I belonged to the frontline of senators who were well known to have, on the floor of the Senate, resisted the mass corruption, and yet your military government detained me (and many like me), and I languished for four months in prison without any accusation–even without being asked any question by any official.

And then, you and Idiagbon expended most of your obviously shining capabilities in pursuing nebulous and amateurish programmes like WAI (War Against Indiscipline), when what our country really needed was (after you had fiercely shot down corruption as you did) to massively divert our enormous oil revenues into investments in the lives of our people–through programmes for expansion and diversification of education, modern job skills development, entrepreneurial development, small business development, promotion of modern farming, policies for improving the quality and reputation of our labour force and thereby attracting investments and businesses into our country, policies for promotion of exports, etc. Put a people to work and persistently multiply the economic opportunities available to them, and the attraction to prosperity through competitive enterprise will gradually suppress indiscipline in their land. Fanciful programmes like WAI can have no lasting benefit or future – as I hope you must know by now. That is why the man who ousted you, Babangida, was able quite easily to wipe out all the patriotic gains of your regime.

Furthermore, I though t it was a pity that you did not appear to recognize that the over-centralization that was being given to our federation was the foundation of our ills as a country. You were wrong in thinking that punishing the corrupt leaders would destroy corruption abidingly. What is needed is to change the system into which corruption has been built. In our country’s case, we needed (and we need) to reduce the magnitude of our federal government and empower our state and local governments, which are nearer the people, to bear most of the burden of development. Then we need to give recognition and respect to our various nationalities in structuring the federation – which should mean that our larger nations would each constitute a state, and contiguous groups of our smaller nationalities would be assisted to form states, just as the Indians sensibly and profitably did in the 1960s.

By refusing to go that route, Nigeria has abysmally depressed its nationalities. For instance, my Yoruba nation came into Nigeria in 1914 as easily the fastest modernizing nationality in Black Africa; and we entered into independence with Nigeria in 1960 as the development front-liner and pace-setter in Africa. Today, we are a battered, poor, and disoriented nation, and most of our achievements have been wrecked, thanks to our being part of a Nigeria that destroys its peoples. Every other Nigerian nationality has similar stories to tell. My brother, I am, by nature and by upbringing, averse to merely lamenting an evil development; I act to change it. My potential urge, even as I write this, is to exert myself with others like me towards pulling my Yoruba nation out of Nigeria if Nigeria will not change course – and that is something that we Yoruba are perfectly capable to achieve if we are pushed to start upon it. And the same is true of some other persons and nations. In short, let’s not ignore or minimize the danger of Nigeria’s dissolution.

I know you have what it takes to change and save Nigeria. I wish you luck in your election – and I wish Nigeria luck.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/18/letter-gen-buhari-prof-banji-akintoye

Do you know, that most 10 yrs old in Igbo land know that restructuring Nigeria will restructure out those vices like corruption, underdevelopment, bad governance at the center, and ultimately poverty. Why are Nigerians not bold enough to undertake that clear and straight forward approach?, cos some groups are afraid, and therefore are willing to destroy or even bring their group to extinction as long as the other group is destroyed too. This was what Obasonjo daughter was trying to point out to her dad on that letter about the unsustainability of the present system.

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by SirHouloo(m): 9:49pm On Dec 18, 2014
Now is the time politicians read, I pray he remembers after election.

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by Nobody: 9:54pm On Dec 18, 2014
9jafreak:
First of all, I congratulate you warmly for winning the nomination of your party for the presidency of Nigeria.

Though you and I are different in ethnicity and religion, we have many important things in common. I am a few years older than you – which means that if you and I had been Yoruba boys born in the same Yoruba town or village, we would have belonged to about the same age-grade Association ( with us Yoruba, age-grade loyalty is traditionally a very important factor of life). Moreover, you and I were young Nigerians in an era, the 1950s, when our up-and coming country of Nigeria was a source of great pride to its citizens, and an emerging titan eagerly awaited by most informed people all over the world.



The three regions of our federation (East, North and West) were engaged in an ambitious rivalry for progress and for improvements in the quality of life of our people. They were able to do that and achieve considerable successes because our constitutional structure gave them much leeway to manage their own affairs within the common Nigerian family. We arrived at independence in 1960 believing that our country was set on the path to becoming the blackman’s world power of modern times.

Unhappily, now that you and I are in our seventies, there is nothing left of our country’s ambitions and pride – indeed, there is hardly anything left of our country itself. Relentlessly crooked up, violated, robbed and depleted since 1960, our Nigeria seems now to be stumbling towards its demise.

As you prepare for your election, I decided to write you this open letter concerning our country, because I know you will understand the pain and expectations behind my words. The purpose of most of Nigeria’s rulers since 1960 has been to weaken and even destroy regional and local initiatives in order to gather all power, control and influence together at the federal center. Their success in doing that has enabled them to remove the management of development far away from our people, and to institute at the federal centre a viciously corrupt, wasteful and incompetent monstrosity. Reduced to the status of beggar clients of the federal robber barons, the state governments, as well as the local governments, collapsed and fell in line as submissive incompetents and mini-robbers.

In the process, real and productive enterprise quickly declined among our people, as the best and most ambitious rushed to join the ranks of the sharers of fraudulently acquired wealth from the public coffers. Our schools and universities, our public service, our police force, our military, our judiciary, all our governmental agencies (electoral commission, secret service, central bank, ports service, immigration service, public examination bodies, etc) – all collapsed under the weight of crooked control, massive corruption and generalized disloyalty. Poverty descended mightily into our country and became the lot of the overwhelming and increasing majority of our people. Our government itself admits that, today, about 70% of our citizens live in “absolute poverty” and that that percentage keeps increasing. With the growing poverty have escalated horrific crimes, a culture of dishonesty, a rush of our youths to Salafist fundamentalist terrorism, and mass flights of the educated to other lands – all of which are compounding the poverty.

From your well-known record as a leader of our country, I know that you are not only aware of these things, but that, in common with many members of our generation, you are seriously pained by them. I confess that I was very angry with you during your brief stint as military ruler, 1983-5. First, you seemed to me to be power-drunk at the time—because you made no distinction between the corrupt who had been stealing and sharing public money under Shagari and those who were known to have been resisting the robbery. I belonged to the frontline of senators who were well known to have, on the floor of the Senate, resisted the mass corruption, and yet your military government detained me (and many like me), and I languished for four months in prison without any accusation–even without being asked any question by any official.

And then, you and Idiagbon expended most of your obviously shining capabilities in pursuing nebulous and amateurish programmes like WAI (War Against Indiscipline), when what our country really needed was (after you had fiercely shot down corruption as you did) to massively divert our enormous oil revenues into investments in the lives of our people–through programmes for expansion and diversification of education, modern job skills development, entrepreneurial development, small business development, promotion of modern farming, policies for improving the quality and reputation of our labour force and thereby attracting investments and businesses into our country, policies for promotion of exports, etc. Put a people to work and persistently multiply the economic opportunities available to them, and the attraction to prosperity through competitive enterprise will gradually suppress indiscipline in their land. Fanciful programmes like WAI can have no lasting benefit or future – as I hope you must know by now. That is why the man who ousted you, Babangida, was able quite easily to wipe out all the patriotic gains of your regime.

Furthermore, I though t it was a pity that you did not appear to recognize that the over-centralization that was being given to our federation was the foundation of our ills as a country. You were wrong in thinking that punishing the corrupt leaders would destroy corruption abidingly. What is needed is to change the system into which corruption has been built. In our country’s case, we needed (and we need) to reduce the magnitude of our federal government and empower our state and local governments, which are nearer the people, to bear most of the burden of development. Then we need to give recognition and respect to our various nationalities in structuring the federation – which should mean that our larger nations would each constitute a state, and contiguous groups of our smaller nationalities would be assisted to form states, just as the Indians sensibly and profitably did in the 1960s.

By refusing to go that route, Nigeria has abysmally depressed its nationalities. For instance, my Yoruba nation came into Nigeria in 1914 as easily the fastest modernizing nationality in Black Africa; and we entered into independence with Nigeria in 1960 as the development front-liner and pace-setter in Africa. Today, we are a battered, poor, and disoriented nation, and most of our achievements have been wrecked, thanks to our being part of a Nigeria that destroys its peoples. Every other Nigerian nationality has similar stories to tell. My brother, I am, by nature and by upbringing, averse to merely lamenting an evil development; I act to change it. My potential urge, even as I write this, is to exert myself with others like me towards pulling my Yoruba nation out of Nigeria if Nigeria will not change course – and that is something that we Yoruba are perfectly capable to achieve if we are pushed to start upon it. And the same is true of some other persons and nations. In short, let’s not ignore or minimize the danger of Nigeria’s dissolution.

I know you have what it takes to change and save Nigeria. I wish you luck in your election – and I wish Nigeria luck.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/18/letter-gen-buhari-prof-banji-akintoye




Someone has gotten my point

Pls see below my comment some weeks ago

It shows that some top political Nigerians are reading our comments






Politics / Re: Buhari: My Plan For Nigeria by WhiteTechnology: 1:53pm On Dec 12
1wolex85:

This is really vague, can you throw more light?


Thank you for asking

In short you are wise.

Lets start

Why do Nigerians blame corruption.? Because they believe it has deprive them access to good things of life.

But one question people failed to ask themselves is , WHY DIDNT THIS SAME CORRUPTION INFLICT THIS SAME DISASTER BEFORE THE FIRST COUP.

Was it that our founding fathers were holy.? To me the answer is no.

After the promulgation and retention of the unitary system, Nigeria lost complete focus.

Before the first coup, every region had to survive on their own. This made it necessary for the regional elites to develop their regions' economically, politically, socially etc if they are to gain anything meaningful from their regions.

In the process of doing this, it affected their people positively because the developed resources eg land, mineral resources, agriculture, industries , urbanization etc are connected to /or gotten from their people.


Let me use a simple scenario to explain

Awo wants to be a great leader. He realises that he needs wealth to acquire more power. The region he governs is not wealthy to provide him such power but he realises that he can execute policies that can enrich his region giving him access to more wealth and indirectly more power.


MY FRIEND IF YOU ARE AWO WHAT WILL YOU DO.?


Now don't forget what I said earlier that the resources needed by Awo to make Western region wealthy in order to use this wealth to acquire more power is in the possession of his people.

What are these resources .? Land, people, mineral resources, agriculture, industries etc.


But today, leaders are not forced by circumstances to develop their regions into wealthy regions if they seek more power through wealth for themselves or their people because of availability of free Abuja money.

What has this caused.? Underdevelopment .
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So my brother restructuring Nigeria is more important than fighting corrupt people.

Buhari will die someday but corrupt people will never cease to exist . But a restructured Nigeria can limit their impact.

Thank you.
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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by oduastates: 10:04pm On Dec 18, 2014
Absolute fact.
Cannot wait for the day when the likes of fayose are put where they belong.
As shoe shiners

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by okiezman(m): 10:19pm On Dec 18, 2014
MayorofLagos:
Op, thanks to you for this article.

This should be framed and hung in Buhari's Office when he starts to live in Aso Rock.

Mtchew....wonder if there's a new aso rock in his home in katsina

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by KHAYGOLD(m): 10:28pm On Dec 18, 2014
You are all thieves, and that is why you were jailed. You are even supposed to be jailed for life.

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by thaoriginator: 10:40pm On Dec 18, 2014
I'm a read it 2mao. Sleeping tingz on pointing
Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by Caseless: 10:50pm On Dec 18, 2014
Thank u , prof!
Nigeria will change for the better if we as a people are ready for the change. History provide us another wonderful opportunity in the name of election next year- it is either we make it, or we mar it by sticking to the status quo.
sai Buhari!

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by Nobody: 11:01pm On Dec 18, 2014
KHAYGOLD:
You are all thieves, and that is why you were jailed. You are even supposed to be jailed for life.
But d $2.8bn nd 53 suit cases isn't about been a thief

If gmb or GEJ win it still d same thing
The system is corrupt those that make our Constitution didn't think deep even deeper
Nigeria constitution only favors A citizens
Salaries of political office holder is abysmal
Those that did d real jobs are d ones suffering

The money and power that comes with political office is d reason y pple rush and thus turn it to business
20% of budget goes into less than 400 people's pocket yet same system is been relied on to take us to d nxt level
Itz aiming for 5..yet u keep adding 2+1,2+2 it will still be the same thing

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by Sharon6(f): 11:03pm On Dec 18, 2014
Too Long. Click like if you didn't finish reading the write up.







CHECK MY SIGNATURE!!! GIVE UR SKIN A TREAT!

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by eleojo23: 11:03pm On Dec 18, 2014
It is amusing that many people think that one man will just come and fix this country with some magic touch. Our problems have accumulated and it's going to take years and a lot of hard work to solve them. These problems have been caused partly by the leaders and to a large extent by the citizens themselves. We want someone who will come and fight corruption when we are not ready to leave our corrupt ways behind and embrace honesty. Everyone claims to have the fear of God but corruption is rife.
Nigeria will only be fixed when the citizens are ready to cooperate with the government. We all must change our values to promote right over wrong.

Until we realize that nation building is not the work of the president alone, we will keep waiting for the 'messiah' and I tell you, it's going to be a very long wait.

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by thefakestan: 11:03pm On Dec 18, 2014
Firstly I dedicate my account to "TherealStan"

Well I think the problem of Nigeria is clear to most Nigerians,

The Most Corrupt people are the "Civil Servants / Public Servants, where corruption is a "Norm" to them.
"So soldier go, soldier come, "Barrack" remains".

Our Judiciary is the Bedrock of corruption, If for instance we have an autonomous Judiciary, I'm sure 90% of our problems would be solved, Because I can confidently Sue PHCN or Kaduna or Portharcourt Electricity distribution company whenever they fail to perform their duties and this is also related to other aspects.

No matter How good the Head is, If the Legs are rotten, it cannot take the Head to where it wants to go!!!


N.B - No system is completely efficient, but we can improve greatly.



Modified - Wrong assumption about Messer!

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by kennosklint(m): 11:03pm On Dec 18, 2014
More of dat
Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by holatin(m): 11:03pm On Dec 18, 2014
great men are always recognize.
by their fruit, we shall know them

Anything you do today will help or hurt you tomorrow.

All GMB previous works and achievement now working and helping him.

And some people still ask is he d change we deserve ?
Someone that fought insecurity, corruption, and you still asking if he is the change we need.

Buhari for change
Buhari for an end to terrorism, corruption
Buhari for President.

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by safarigirl(f): 11:04pm On Dec 18, 2014
Aww, how touching *wipes tears*

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by phollybee(m): 11:04pm On Dec 18, 2014
hmmmmn
Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by scribble: 11:05pm On Dec 18, 2014
Typical of Buhari to act with impunity

After he was elected, didnt his supporters kill 800+

Maybe its a regional thing sha

You cant always have your cake and eat it you know....

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by safarigirl(f): 11:06pm On Dec 18, 2014
9jafreak:
My opinion:
1. This is the MOST PERFECT & MOST SUCCINCT summation of Nigeria's history, woes, and potentials ever!
2. Once again the Yoruba Nation will decide who 'lords over' over-centralized One Nigeria. But we are no fools. We mostly supported President Jonathan in 2011 and will mostly support Gen. Buhari in 2015 but the core question of our unfettered capacity to properly govern our nation within the Nigerian experiment remains at the height of our deepest desires.
3. And by God we will pull out of Nigeria if the General refuses to heed the words of wisdom.
4. To be honest, we have nothing really to lose in 2015. Jonathan in fact may lead Nigeria faster to the seemingly inevitable disintegration than GMB. We wait even as we plan...
brother go siddon for one corner...Yoruba holds wetin where? Una sabi road to pull out?

We're here talking about one Nigeria and you have the gall to make the entire election about one out of over 250 ethnic groups, shey the ewedu wey you chop this evening no done?

Please take this your tribalistic talk somewhere else, as if only Yoruba people will vote in 2015. Make una no dey spoil Buhari's chances with dumb tribalistic statements

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by bonechamberlain(m): 11:06pm On Dec 18, 2014
nice...... but still don't understand the purpose of the letter

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by Nobody: 11:06pm On Dec 18, 2014
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Why did you hide my comment



Anyway what this elderly said its what I have being talking about since


CORRUPTION IS NOT OUR PROBLEM BUT THE SYSTEM WE OPERATE


RESTRUCTURE NIGERIA NOW


Resource control/Fiscal federalism

Privatization

True federalism eg state police


Are the shortest route to National development


Buhari won't achieve it because he comes from a part of Nigeria that opposes all these things

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by Nobody: 11:07pm On Dec 18, 2014
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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by reknownedmarsk(m): 11:08pm On Dec 18, 2014
lets all be happy...freedom at last...BUHARI/OSIBANJO all d way.
jona nd his wife shud get their bicycle ready...otuoke to abuja no
b small journey o...
BUHARI/OSIBANJO

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Re: Letter To Gen. Buhari By Prof. Banji Akintoye (A Must Read) by optimusprime2(m): 11:08pm On Dec 18, 2014
After that, will it credit their mastercards and confer them
Bachelors degrees?

#Hawks...

#Spits...

#Walksoffthread...

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