The Presidency has described former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), as the major sponsor of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram and a leading protagonist of violence. It said that apart from his ambition to rule the country again, Buhari had refused to contribute meaningfully to actions capable of ending insecurity in the country. Buhari, a National Leader of the CPC, had, on the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation on Monday, said that the Federal Government should be blamed for the lingering security challenges in the country. According to Punch Newspaper, Buhari also flayed the Goodluck Jonathan administration for what he called “poor handling of insurgency” that had led to the death of many Nigerians and destruction of properties. While reacting to this, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said it was unfortunate that such a statement could emanate from Buhari. Describing Buhari as a man he respects so much, Okupe added that he had no option but to reply to his accusations against the Federal Government and the President.

He reminded Nigerians that Buhari had previously been credited with a statement that he would make the country ungovernable if the last presidential election did not favour him. Okupe said, “Everybody in this country knows that it was Buhari who vowed that if he did not win the election, he would make the country ungovernable for this President. It was this same Buhari who said during the electioneering period that if the votes were counted and he lost, people should go for blood. He is not in any position to apportion blame on the issue of violence in the North or in Nigeria in general. He is a protagonist of violence. The only solution he sees to his not being President is to call for violence. This government has tried to contain some of the repercussions of the unguarded statements made by Buhari and I don’t think anybody in Nigeria will take him seriously on this allegation.” The presidential aide added that if there were those to be blamed for the insecurity in the country, the name of Buhari should top the list. Okupe wondered why the Katsina State-born general had refused to visit states like Borno and Yobe despite the fact that he hails from the northern part of the country. He said, “As a former Head of State, have you ever seen him (Buhari) visiting Borno or Yobe States? Have you ever seen him show sympathy to people, either Christians or Muslims that have been killed during these attacks by Boko Haram? Have you see him as a leader, a man who traversed the entire length and breadth of the North especially to canvass for votes seeking an end to the violence? Why is it that he cannot use that same clout that he has to get leaders together and say we must put an end to this carnage? He finds it comfortable to shift the blame to other people. What has he done as a leader, who is from that region to help Nigeria and the North out of this unfortunate development? Nigerians should ask him, as a former Head of State and stakeholder in the Nigeria project and a man who wants to be President again, if he would want Nigeria to be destroyed up to a point before he can try to wade in? It does not work that way.” Okupe said that as a leader, Buhari should stop apportioning blame, but should do something crucial to bring the carnage in the country under control. He reminded the former military ruler that during the crisis in Niger Delta, leaders from the region went into the creeks and discussed with the militants to lay down their arms. “Has Buhari done that? When Christians were killed, he kept quiet, when mosques were bombed, he did not say anything. He doesn’t have any other interest in Nigeria but his inordinate ambition to rule,” he added. In his reaction, Buhari said there was no way he could be involved in the discussion on how to end the carnage since he was not part of the problem. Buhari, who spoke through the National Publicity Secretary of the CPC, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, also said it was apparent that those responsible for the crisis in the Niger Delta were the ones that volunteered to end it.

He said, “When the Niger Delta militancy reached a crescendo, some notable people from that region went into the creeks as he (Okupe) alleged. The question is: ‘Who were the people who started the Niger Delta imbroglio ab initio?’ If the people that initiated and executed a problem decided to resolve it, what can anyone do about it? This is totally different from the Boko Haram palaver.”
http://nigerianbulletin.com/nigerian-news/buhari-is-boko-harams-major-sponsor-presidency/

I remember Buhari calling for blood before and after the election. So how is he not part of the problem in the north

This is outrageous & preposterous. My Binocular in hand already, this thread needs to be viewed from afar.

Classic from GEJ

He stays burning Buhari's Cable in Public...lol

Buhari is doing his Presidential ambition more harm than good by this back and forth exchange.

GEJ is such a cockblocker...lol

Okukpe the lying attack dog should save his dirty lies for his fellow PDP fools..

FG has about 2,000 Boko Haram suspects in custody currently and they're still investigating. Has any ONE of the provided a link to Buhari??

Is‎​ Okukpe saying this based on available evidence or his usual smear campaign??

Okukpe should provide evidence linking Buhari to Boko Haram or STFU!!!

this is a lie,nigerians know pdp owns the Political boko haram to divert our attention
and to score dirty points
the same way kidnapping was introduced in the south to pursue elites from participating in governance and development in their home states

The presidency should provide evidence and prosecute him.
Anything other dan this ns political gimics.

Instead of declaring a "week of emergency" and briningg all major stakeholders to Aso Rock, lock them in a room and find a workable solution to this BH national crisis, our President is waging a media war which will do nothing to resolve the crisis. SMH

Twats!
If this is not presidential mischief, then I don't know what is.
What an asinine statement. If you are so sure of you facts, why haven't you arrested him? Weak-äss government! Damned if it's true, damned if it isn't.

Will Things Continue Like This?
Mon, 01/04/2013 - 3:24am |

SAM NDA-ISAIAH


The new normal in Nigeria is very abnormal. In one single day recently, there were 52 different murders in different parts of the country. And, as far as I know, no one is being held to account for any of these murders. About a fortnight ago, more than 50 people were killed in a bus-stop in Kano in a single incident. A couple of days later, 24 people were killed in Plateau State in renewed violence, the following day, 13 more were killed in the same Plateau State. By weekend, the death toll in Plateau was about 100. Murders of one or two people are no longer reported in the news media because, according to one editor I once queried why a certain news item was missed, “only two people were killed.” Nigeria is losing its soul.

At issue is that our country is not being governed properly. The way President Jonathan currently governs the country is not how to run a country. There is no country in the world that is free of crime; it is the way an entity deals with crime that will determine the security situation of that entity. Crime flourishes in Nigeria for a reason and even a kindergarten pupil should know why. Crime flourishes in our country because there are no deterrents.

I was in Singapore a fortnight ago and over a single crime – which I am still not sure is codified as a crime in Nigeria – forty-five different people, many of them foreigners, were charged in court. Some were later discharged but many of those arrested are now headed for prison. They were all charged with the crime of engaging in sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl. Countries that are secure are always those, which by choice, are tough on crime. In Singapore, it is death sentence for arms trafficking. And arms trafficking is defined as being in possession of more than two firearms. In Nigeria, when was the last time anyone was charged with being in illegal possession of firearms? How many times have we heard the security agencies announce that they had impounded lorry loads or even ship loads of arms and ammunition and then the story just fizzles out? We must have all lost count. How many culprits have been arraigned in court for such offences and jailed since President Jonathan became president? Even the very few who were convicted before he became president are now being pardoned and even compensated.

We have heard of the “uncovering” of bomb making factories several times in the past and nothing eventually came out of it. Where is the attorney-general of this federation? Nobody, not even his detractors can question the credentials of the attorney-general, but why is he so incapacitated? No attorney-general can be this incompetent or absent-minded unless he is under a specific directive from the “Oga at the top” not to do anything. Nigerians are really confused. Nobody knows what is happening anymore. The police, SSS and all other security agents can arrest all the criminals in the world but as long as they are not tried and punished, they are wasting their time and ours. Even as I settle down to write this piece yesterday, several gunshots and explosions were being heard from different parts of Kano and these gunshots and explosions would continue and they will spread to other parts of the country if President Jonathan does not start running the country as any average leader should. Running a country should not be the rocket science that Jonathan is trying to make it unless there is something else many of us don’t know.

Apart from the apparent incapacity of the attorney-general and minister of justice who by the way is a successful lawyer and senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) to boot, there are many other happenings that cannot just be explained. When the opposition merger appears to be moving smoothly and there appeared to be a brewing political alliance between the North and the South-West, we started hearing of the intention of Boko Haram to bomb Lagos. Some munitions were uncovered and as usual, we have not heard that any of those arrested would be arraigned in court. In any case, how can we expect anyone to be charged this time when no one has been charged in court for killing those professors who were murdered while worshipping in the university chapel at Bayero University, Kano last year and no one has been charged with the murder of General Muhammadu Shuwa in broad daylight in Maiduguri? And, by the way, what is this confusion about some would-be Lagos bombers being arrested in a property belonging to the Bayelsa State government in Lagos? Somebody has to clear the air as quickly as possible please because I don’t like what people are already saying.

It does not even appear that the president thinks there is a problem. All that preoccupies his mind these days is how to seek re-election and continue in Aso Rock beyond 2015. He certainly does not intend to run on his record because he has no record to run on. Is it not a cruel joke that the president intends to seek re-election when he cannot manage the elementary challenge of keeping the country safe from hoodlums? I do not know whether the president intends to rig the 2015 presidential election but if he intends to do so as many people believe, then he certainly does not know how gravely unpopular he has become. Any politician who is ready to rig elections with that kind of desperate unpopularity should also be ready to face the desperate consequences of such action. But the president is perfectly within his right to seek re-election and no one has any right to deprive him of those rights. The only right that the rest of us can exercise is to save our country from inexorable collapse by stopping him from continuing beyond 2015. And we must all exercise that power with everything that we have.

But between now and 2015, what’s going to happen to us? Are we going to continue like this? Who are those funding these murderers? And why is it so difficult to find this out? Are they fifth columnists or blacklegs? Or maybe they are just simply ghosts as the president himself would say. Why won’t the government start by making arms trafficking a capital offence and actually enforcing it? Or at the very least, why shouldn’t the government just start charging people in court today for being in illegal possession of firearms? And seriously, is there anything stopping the president? And what prevents President Jonathan from ordering the immediate arraignment of all those arrested in connection with the several murders in the land? Or, are we going to continue to rely on South Africa and the United Kingdom to deal with our criminals? The more one thinks of this, the more confused one gets. Certainly, things cannot continue like this.

This shouldn't be a surprise to Nigerians. We all know 'crying' Buhari is behind Boko Haram and no wonder he never took side and sympathize with the victims of his watchdogs Boko Haram..

BTW, Buhari and his 'silent' cohorts are the evil behind this country. The victims of your evil plans and victims of your watchdogs boko haram would hunt you till your dying days....

Yes blame buhari, he is the one stealing billions and pardoning criminals abi? I will not insult a sitting president like the mini monkey (elrufai) did but this okupe guy is really a scumbag

On one hand Okupe says he deeply respects Buhari , on another hand he says Buhari is the sponsor of BH . My question is how do U respect a man that you say has caused your govt so much pain... Its unfortunate that Jonathan a certified slowpoke has decided to surround himself with career morons.

Eziokwu!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrVGyR07CNY

Our Yansh: Okukpe the lying attack dog should save his dirty lies for his fellow PDP fools..

FG has about 2,000 Boko Haram suspects in custody currently and they're still investigating. Has any ONE of the provided a link to Buhari??

Is‎​ Okukpe saying this based on available evidence or his usual smear campaign??

Okukpe should provide evidence linking Buhari to Boko Haram or STFU!!!

Do you know if they were spelled or Told not to say their Sponsor even in Death Threat?

impetus: The Presidency has described former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), as the major sponsor of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram and a leading protagonist of violence. It said that apart from his ambition to rule the country again, Buhari had refused to contribute meaningfully to actions capable of ending insecurity in the country. Buhari, a National Leader of the CPC, had, on the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation on Monday, said that the Federal Government should be blamed for the lingering security challenges in the country. According to Punch Newspaper, Buhari also flayed the Goodluck Jonathan administration for what he called “poor handling of insurgency” that had led to the death of many Nigerians and destruction of properties. While reacting to this, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said it was unfortunate that such a statement could emanate from Buhari. Describing Buhari as a man he respects so much, Okupe added that he had no option but to reply to his accusations against the Federal Government and the President.

He reminded Nigerians that Buhari had previously been credited with a statement that he would make the country ungovernable if the last presidential election did not favour him. Okupe said, “Everybody in this country knows that it was Buhari who vowed that if he did not win the election, he would make the country ungovernable for this President. It was this same Buhari who said during the electioneering period that if the votes were counted and he lost, people should go for blood. He is not in any position to apportion blame on the issue of violence in the North or in Nigeria in general. He is a protagonist of violence. The only solution he sees to his not being President is to call for violence. This government has tried to contain some of the repercussions of the unguarded statements made by Buhari and I don’t think anybody in Nigeria will take him seriously on this allegation.” The presidential aide added that if there were those to be blamed for the insecurity in the country, the name of Buhari should top the list. Okupe wondered why the Katsina State-born general had refused to visit states like Borno and Yobe despite the fact that he hails from the northern part of the country. He said, “As a former Head of State, have you ever seen him (Buhari) visiting Borno or Yobe States? Have you ever seen him show sympathy to people, either Christians or Muslims that have been killed during these attacks by Boko Haram? Have you see him as a leader, a man who traversed the entire length and breadth of the North especially to canvass for votes seeking an end to the violence? Why is it that he cannot use that same clout that he has to get leaders together and say we must put an end to this carnage? He finds it comfortable to shift the blame to other people. What has he done as a leader, who is from that region to help Nigeria and the North out of this unfortunate development? Nigerians should ask him, as a former Head of State and stakeholder in the Nigeria project and a man who wants to be President again, if he would want Nigeria to be destroyed up to a point before he can try to wade in? It does not work that way.” Okupe said that as a leader, Buhari should stop apportioning blame, but should do something crucial to bring the carnage in the country under control. He reminded the former military ruler that during the crisis in Niger Delta, leaders from the region went into the creeks and discussed with the militants to lay down their arms. “Has Buhari done that? When Christians were killed, he kept quiet, when mosques were bombed, he did not say anything. He doesn’t have any other interest in Nigeria but his inordinate ambition to rule,” he added. In his reaction, Buhari said there was no way he could be involved in the discussion on how to end the carnage since he was not part of the problem. Buhari, who spoke through the National Publicity Secretary of the CPC, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, also said it was apparent that those responsible for the crisis in the Niger Delta were the ones that volunteered to end it.

He said, “When the Niger Delta militancy reached a crescendo, some notable people from that region went into the creeks as he (Okupe) alleged. The question is: ‘Who were the people who started the Niger Delta imbroglio ab initio?’ If the people that initiated and executed a problem decided to resolve it, what can anyone do about it? This is totally different from the Boko Haram palaver.”
http://nigerianbulletin.com/nigerian-news/buhari-is-boko-harams-major-sponsor-presidency/

Okukpe he is not a good citizen of this great country. You better say the truth than for you to be lie around the country because of what you are going to eat. Ahhhhhhh !!!. Wher is Gen. Abacha today, Alhaji Umar Musa Yar'adua today and a world billionaire MKO Abiola today. Remember oooo. Okukpe remember ooo. He who do good we take reward and at the same time He who do bad also shall take his or her judgement one day.

Wiz-Prince:
Do you know if they were spelled or Told not to say their Sponsor even in Death Threat?

Under intense interrogation they'll confess everything they know....

its outragous the extent to which the PDP would go to rubbish an epitome of hope General Buhari, i have been following this matter for some days and its very sad how youths think in this country. Beleave you me Bh is a PDP phinomenom, this government has failed in all its ramification, an uprising is coming, and when it does, it would consume all those that have made us stagnat these years. God help us all,

This is the first resonable comment I m hearing from okupe in a long while.
Buhari is banking on the massive killings by bokoharam and hoping or wishing it extends till 2015 in order to gain support for his bid.
Bt my question is the same as okupe, "why hasn't he visited those states,simple,the perceive silence or psudo active connivance really means that he values his ambition more than human life.

There are strong suspisions that Buhari is backing the Bokos, however there is no hard evidence yet...its a matter of time...
At least we know that Boko Haram admire him, that is why he was nominated as their spokes man....

But come to think of it, why would Buhari just stand by and watch all theese violent acts happening, ok, assume that the Government is not doing enuf, isnt he suppose to be a leader? according to okupe...he can't even visit the victims, the churches, the southners to symprtise with them...
na wa sha...

This country tire me jare, I dey find who I won dash my citizenship to, any body interested?

Bliss4Lyfe: Eziokwu!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrVGyR07CNY

Nice Video. Thanks immensely. I loved it.

Wetin those people dey argue sef. That Hausa-accented mallam fu/cker will never be President of Naijeria. No need wasting my breath.

Whoever that knows that mallam should take this message to him..that he will never rule naija again,if he likes, make him bomb the whole north.

agriboom: Will Things Continue Like This?
Mon, 01/04/2013 - 3:24am |

SAM NDA-ISAIAH


The new normal in Nigeria is very abnormal. In one single day recently, there were 52 different murders in different parts of the country. And, as far as I know, no one is being held to account for any of these murders. About a fortnight ago, more than 50 people were killed in a bus-stop in Kano in a single incident. A couple of days later, 24 people were killed in Plateau State in renewed violence, the following day, 13 more were killed in the same Plateau State. By weekend, the death toll in Plateau was about 100. Murders of one or two people are no longer reported in the news media because, according to one editor I once queried why a certain news item was missed, “only two people were killed.” Nigeria is losing its soul.

At issue is that our country is not being governed properly. The way President Jonathan currently governs the country is not how to run a country. There is no country in the world that is free of crime; it is the way an entity deals with crime that will determine the security situation of that entity. Crime flourishes in Nigeria for a reason and even a kindergarten pupil should know why. Crime flourishes in our country because there are no deterrents.

I was in Singapore a fortnight ago and over a single crime – which I am still not sure is codified as a crime in Nigeria – forty-five different people, many of them foreigners, were charged in court. Some were later discharged but many of those arrested are now headed for prison. They were all charged with the crime of engaging in sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl. Countries that are secure are always those, which by choice, are tough on crime. In Singapore, it is death sentence for arms trafficking. And arms trafficking is defined as being in possession of more than two firearms. In Nigeria, when was the last time anyone was charged with being in illegal possession of firearms? How many times have we heard the security agencies announce that they had impounded lorry loads or even ship loads of arms and ammunition and then the story just fizzles out? We must have all lost count. How many culprits have been arraigned in court for such offences and jailed since President Jonathan became president? Even the very few who were convicted before he became president are now being pardoned and even compensated.

We have heard of the “uncovering” of bomb making factories several times in the past and nothing eventually came out of it. Where is the attorney-general of this federation? Nobody, not even his detractors can question the credentials of the attorney-general, but why is he so incapacitated? No attorney-general can be this incompetent or absent-minded unless he is under a specific directive from the “Oga at the top” not to do anything. Nigerians are really confused. Nobody knows what is happening anymore. The police, SSS and all other security agents can arrest all the criminals in the world but as long as they are not tried and punished, they are wasting their time and ours. Even as I settle down to write this piece yesterday, several gunshots and explosions were being heard from different parts of Kano and these gunshots and explosions would continue and they will spread to other parts of the country if President Jonathan does not start running the country as any average leader should. Running a country should not be the rocket science that Jonathan is trying to make it unless there is something else many of us don’t know.

Apart from the apparent incapacity of the attorney-general and minister of justice who by the way is a successful lawyer and senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) to boot, there are many other happenings that cannot just be explained. When the opposition merger appears to be moving smoothly and there appeared to be a brewing political alliance between the North and the South-West, we started hearing of the intention of Boko Haram to bomb Lagos. Some munitions were uncovered and as usual, we have not heard that any of those arrested would be arraigned in court. In any case, how can we expect anyone to be charged this time when no one has been charged in court for killing those professors who were murdered while worshipping in the university chapel at Bayero University, Kano last year and no one has been charged with the murder of General Muhammadu Shuwa in broad daylight in Maiduguri? And, by the way, what is this confusion about some would-be Lagos bombers being arrested in a property belonging to the Bayelsa State government in Lagos? Somebody has to clear the air as quickly as possible please because I don’t like what people are already saying.

It does not even appear that the president thinks there is a problem. All that preoccupies his mind these days is how to seek re-election and continue in Aso Rock beyond 2015. He certainly does not intend to run on his record because he has no record to run on. Is it not a cruel joke that the president intends to seek re-election when he cannot manage the elementary challenge of keeping the country safe from hoodlums? I do not know whether the president intends to rig the 2015 presidential election but if he intends to do so as many people believe, then he certainly does not know how gravely unpopular he has become. Any politician who is ready to rig elections with that kind of desperate unpopularity should also be ready to face the desperate consequences of such action. But the president is perfectly within his right to seek re-election and no one has any right to deprive him of those rights. The only right that the rest of us can exercise is to save our country from inexorable collapse by stopping him from continuing beyond 2015. And we must all exercise that power with everything that we have.

But between now and 2015, what’s going to happen to us? Are we going to continue like this? Who are those funding these murderers? And why is it so difficult to find this out? Are they fifth columnists or blacklegs? Or maybe they are just simply ghosts as the president himself would say. Why won’t the government start by making arms trafficking a capital offence and actually enforcing it? Or at the very least, why shouldn’t the government just start charging people in court today for being in illegal possession of firearms? And seriously, is there anything stopping the president? And what prevents President Jonathan from ordering the immediate arraignment of all those arrested in connection with the several murders in the land? Or, are we going to continue to rely on South Africa and the United Kingdom to deal with our criminals? The more one thinks of this, the more confused one gets. Certainly, things cannot continue like this.

RIDE ON SIR, WE NEED MORE PLEASE

akpomeme: I remember Buhari calling for blood before and after the election. So how is he not part of the problem in the north

Same old regurgitated propaganda crap meant to mislead only the gullible. Was Azazi a fool? Tell us, of all the over 20 fat cats arested in conection with the sect, how many of them are not PDP members

You pple would stop at nothing to sell this horseshit to nigerians. And if Buhari is responsible, what the hell stops that cowardly scumbag from aresting and prosecuting him?

I can only imagine what news would have been making the rounds had the house those folks were caught in Lag been found to belong to Nasarawa state govt! GEJ is a terrorist sponsor, and Dickson is an ally. Your days at the gallows is fast approaching.