THE ORCHESTRATED DISTORTION OF RECENT
COMMENTARIES OF GENERAL MUHAMMADU
BUHARI (GMB).

Our attention has been drawn to the recent call by
Pastor Ayodele Oritsejafor, President of Christian
Association of Nigeria (CAN ), for the arrest of
General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB) – the national
leader of the Congress for Progressive Change
(CPC) – on account of his recent commentaries on
national issues. We are aware that this is a rehash
of the stance of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor to a
previous piece of mendacious writing by Dr
Reuben Abati in his Guardian Newspaper column,
wherein he alluded to GMB as being responsible
for post-election violence in some parts of the
North in April, 2011. The subsequent libel suit
instituted by GMB revealed that Abati had no shred
of evidence for his reckless surmising. Meanwhile,
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor had used the platform of
CAN to impetuously seek the arrest of GMB based
on fiction and orchestrated literary violence by the
PDP-led Federal Government. The subsequent
appointment of Dr. Reuben Abati as the Special
Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on media
and Publicity revealed the fitting reward for that
hatchet job. We have also noted the physical
presence of President Good-luck Jonathan at the
ceremony where Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor was
presented a gift of Bombardier Jet on 10th
November, 2012.

The kernel of the latest orchestrated distortion of
GMB’s recent commentaries was done to blacken
him as supporting the insurgency of Boko Haram
in Nigeria. In fact, Pastor Oritsejafor impudently
asserted:
“He is, therefore, the prime leader of this religious
and blood thirsty sect called Boko Haram, a
movement that is based on a warped interpretation
of a strict adherence to force people of other
religions into Islam. This kind of fundamentalism
is the driving force behind his failure of each
election in the country.”

It is our view that this statement is utterly
tendentious and unsupportable by incontrovertible
facts. We are aware that, as it was before and after
the 2011 elections, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor is keen
on helping the electoral fortunes of his friend,
President Good-luck Jonathan. We are therefore
compelled to re-tell GMB’s uncompromising stand
on Boko Haram.
In a recent interview in June 2012, this is what
GMB said on Boko Haram:

“When we knew who was Maitatsine, wasn’t he
arrested, killed and his corpse shown to
everybody? But this Boko Haram, if you could
recall somebody recommended me to represent
Boko Haram. I told them the honest truth that I
didn’t know who their leadership was and I still
don’t know who their leaders are. I don’t know
their philosophy because no religion advocates
hurting the innocent. So, all those people giving it
a religious meaning are wrong. You can’t kill a
person and say Allahu Akbar (God is great). It is
either you don’t know what you are saying or you
don’t believe in it. It is one of the two.”

On 25th December, 2012 (Christmas day),
bombings took place at the St. Theresa’s Catholic
Church, Madalla, Niger State; Jos, Plateau State;
and Damaturu, Yobe State. This is what GMB said:

"Bombing other human beings to death at any time
is callous. It becomes much more reprehensible
on a Christmas day and all lovers of peace must
condemn these gruesome acts and demand that
the perpetrators be fished out and brought to
book."
The amiable General and our National leader
continued:

"How on earth would the Vatican and the British
authorities speak before the Nigerian government
on attacks within Nigeria that have led to the
deaths of our citizens? This is clearly a failure of
leadership at a time the government needs to
assure the people of the capacity to guarantee the
safety of lives and property. You can devote the
entire budget to security and there won't be any
result if there is no competence in leadership to
know what to do at the right time."

We leave discerning Nigerians to judge and see the
anomaly in Pastor Oritsejafor’s reckless call and
GMB’s unwavering patriotic stand on Nigeria’s
insecurity. Again, Pastor Oritsejafor has proven to
be, a willing implement for destabilization in the
hands of the Presidency, in the orchestrated
heckling of GMB ahead of the 2015 elections.

As we shall prove shortly, the moral rectitude,
personal discipline and patriotic love for Nigeria
by GMB is head and shoulder above what the
current leaders of the Nation possess. GMB is not
in the mould of leaders that do not match their
words with deeds. In the run to the 2011 election,
Dr. Good-luck Jonathan told an unsuspecting
Nation: “My ambition is not worth the blood of
anybody.” But truly, his electioneering campaign
was trailed by blood, tears and woes! As a ruling
President, Dr Good-luck Jonathan has caused more
destabilization of the polity through his capricious
politics than any of his predecessors in office.

Under his watch, the Nation state is tottering and
statecraft in peril, but he prefers to use negative
propaganda against those he perceives as
interested in contesting for the Nation’s
presidency, to actually evincing enviable
leadership of the country.

There are certain incongruities in the Nation state
under President Jonathan that GMB has continued
to sensitize Nigerians about, and for which the
government has continued to distort with its
divisive weapon of preying on the ethno-religious
fault lines in the Country.

· In 2009, Mohammed Yussuff, the leader of Boko
Haram, was arrested by the military and handed
over to the Nigeria Police. He was paraded with
hand-cuff before Journalists. Barely twenty four
hours’ later, Yussuff’s lifeless body was shown to
Journalists and still in hand-cuff! In a related
development, persons suspected to be Boko
Haram members or sympathizers were shot by the
Police at point-blank range. The video footage of
the incident posted by al-Jazeera showed some of
the people on crutches and made to lay face-down
before a police man bent over and summarily
executed them all.

This act of cruel injustice, coupled with the official
acquiescence of the PDP-led Federal Government
of President Good-luck Jonathan was what GMB
said to be the genesis of the bloody insurgency of
Boko haram.

· In Baga, a fishing community in Borno State, a
Nigerian Soldier was killed. The ensuing reprisal
attack by the Military left in excess of 185 persons
dead – mostly children and women – and many
houses destroyed.

· The previous prosecution of the war on terror in
northern Nigeria had been done with such
unprofessional ferocity that left tales of human
rights abuses and extra-judicial murders. The
United States of America (USA) had pilloried the
Nigerian military for this. It is on this background
that GMB expressed his scepticism about the
current declaration of state of emergency in three
northern states. With the communication black-out
over these states, are we not to expect more
abuses in the name of enforcing security?

· In May, 2013, about 60 security men (consisting
of police and State security operatives) were
allegedly gruesomely murdered in Nasarawa by the
Ombatse cult group. In a bizarre twist of the
events, the Director-General of Directorate of State
Security (DSS), Mr. Ita Ekpeyong, said he had
forgiven the killers of the service men and left
them to God’s judgment. GMB, in his characteristic
candour, lambasted the head of Nigeria’s spy
agency for this perfidious statement. These are his
exact words: “However, the Nasarawa attack is a
cult that infiltrated the police itself. The latest I
learnt from you the press is that the number of
security personnel killed is 56. The cult group
slaughtered 56 security men. The SSS boss or
whoever that said he has left everything to God has
no right to do that.

Constitutionally, Nigerians can practice any
religion they want or they can be atheists or
anything they want to be, that is constitutional. But
nobody should hurt a citizen of Nigeria and then
get away with it, not to talk of slaughtering 56 law
enforcement agents and then somebody coming
out from the system to say such a thing. It is either
that person doesn’t know what he was talking
about or he shouldn’t even be there.”

In many jurisdictions, notably the advanced
democracies, any murderous violence on the
service men is viewed with uncompromising
severity. In the same vein, there is also a
concomitant punishment of the service men for
any breach of service codes or rules of
engagement.

Last March, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a veteran
of four US combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq,
ran amok and killed sixteen persons in Kandahar
province of Afghanistan, while also burning their
houses and villages. The United States (US)
authority did not go the way of Nigeria. The
offending service man was arraigned before the
Court by military prosecutors. From latest
developments on the case, Bales stands the risk of
life imprisonment or death sentence. We have
stated this example to show the utter
irresponsibility and ineptitude currently pervading
the business of governance in the Nigerian state.
The Federal Government, under President Good-
luck Jonathan, had shown complicity in the
exacerbation of security concerns in Nigeria.

As a Party, we know that the Federal Government of
President Good-Luck Jonathan, like the previous
PDP administration, seems too intimidated by
GMB’s sterling qualities and previous meritorious
service to Nigeria that no effort is spared to
depreciate his status through deliberate distortions
and misrepresentation of his statements. We
sincerely sympathise with them! For the avoidance
of doubt and within the ambit of space/time
constraints, we hereby avail discerning Nigerians
some aspects of the stellar public service
performance of General Muhammadu Buhari
(GMB):
§ In August 1975, as a Lt. Colonel, GMB was
appointed military governor of North-Eastern State,
an area now comprising the six states of the North
East geo-political zone. He governed with such
acuity and urbanity that was undoubtedly the basis
for the future development of the area.

§ As Federal Commissioner for Petroleum
resources (March 1976-July 1978), two of the
Nation’s four refineries, that is, warri and Kaduna,
were built. Also, thousands of kms of pipelines
and fuel depots were constructed.

§ In 1983, the patriotic fervour of GMB was rudely
put to test when the Chadians, in a mindless
expansionist adventure, invaded and occupied 19
Islands in Lake Chad within Nigerian territory. As
the General Officer Commanding (GOC) the 3rd
Armoured corps, GMB successfully carried out a
blockade, forcing the return of the territories -and
thereafter pursued the Chadians as far as 50kms
into Chadian territory; a feat loudly applauded as
forward defence strategy at its best!
§ As the incoming Head of State on December 31st,
1983, he aroused the Nigerian people into a new
wave of Patriotism with his often-quoted statement:
“This generation of Nigerians, and indeed future
generations, have no country other than Nigeria.

We shall remain and salvage it together.” This aptly
captured what later defined the conduct of the
Buhari administration. The 20-month era of strong
leadership espoused what later became known as
‘Buharinomics’, which simply put, is an admixture
of frugality, probity, respect for contractual
agreements, expunction of all covert or overt
attempts at subjugating the Nigerian economy to
world powers and above all, the economic policy
with Nigeria as the centre-piece. It is therefore
without any whiff of equivocation to state that the
boldest attempt, in the last thirty years, at
alleviating the pains of the teeming masses was
during the enactment of Buharinomics. It was not
surprising that inflation rate inherited from the
ruinous and immediate past civilian regime was
lowered by more than 18 points, from 23.2% in
1983 to 5.5% in 1985! The Buhari regime rebuffed
all entreaties by IMF and World Bank to devalue
the naira, remove subsidies on services and
increase pump price on fuel; not even a special
envoy from President Ronald Reagan was sufficient
to make him rescind his decision!
§ As Executive Chairman of the Petroleum Trust
Fund (PTF), hundreds of kms of roads were
constructed to hitherto unreached rural
communities. He ensured the supply of drugs to
the health centres of Educational institutions. The
infrastructural development of the Country was
massive with his inimitable management of the
funds released for PTF operations. It is no wonder
that the subsequent scrutiny of the financial
dealings of the PTF showed an excellent work done
by the agency.

It is against this back-drop that we understand the
frustrations of the current leaders and their
sympathizers in the heckling expeditions of GMB.

As things stand, he poses the greatest challenge to
the continued existence of the indignity and
incongruity that the Jonathan administration
represents. The tottering edifice of the weather-
beaten umbrella of the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) is aptly captured by the well-reasoned words
of Othman Dan Fodio: “a kingdom can endure with
unbelief but it cannot endure with injustice”.

As GMB once posited, “the battle for social justice
is not just for me, or the opposition, but a
challenge to all Nigerians. Each and everyone of us
has a duty to stand up and speak for justice. The
first principle of justice in a democracy is the right
of the citizens to freely choose their leaders. This
can only happen if elections are free and fair, not
according to INEC or a bare majority of the
Supreme Court. They must be free and fair by all
counts and in all senses.”

In the run to the April 2011 elections, GMB saw
through the entire gamut of deception of the
Jonathan regime and wept. Many jeered, some
excoriated him but the discerning ones were also
inconsolable. Unfortunately, his tears are drying
up but the teeming Nigerian people are now made
to weep. Every act of the Jonathan regime is a
scripted venture in ruinous adventure.
There is
confusion in the engine room and the statecraft is
on auto-pilot. We are sure that though the situation
is sordid, help is on the way! The merger of the
opposition parties shall provide the fulcrum for
springing the Nigerian nation back to life.
Indeed, to wrestle Nigeria from the vice-grip of the
current unpatriotic leaders is a task that must be
done. Eternal vigilance is still the price for our
liberty.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Rotimi Fashakin (Engr.)
National Publicity Secretary, CPC.

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Whenever a Nigerian politrikcian have something to hide, they employ the service of Webster dictionary and come up with different vocabularies. But when they want to cause trouble and incite sympathy or riot, they speak simple English backed with simple proverb; 'the baboon and dog will be soak in blood'.

I was hoping he will come out to say that Muhammed bihari condemned boko haram directly. Since inception and till now. Bihari has never come out to directly condemn boko haram. Nigerians are not dumb people.

Alxmyr: Whenever a Nigerian politrikcian have something to hide, they employ the service of Webster dictionary and come up with different vocabularies. But when they want to cause trouble and incite sympathy or riot, they speak simple English backed with simple proverb; 'the baboon and dog will be soak in blood'.

U don hit the nail for the hammer head, sorry hammer for the nail head

The only sensible thing in the entire epistle worthy of mentioning for those who'd want a summary is a contrast between the post election stance of Buhari and Jonathan as pointed out by the writer of the very long sermon without knowing he was shooting his paymaster on the foot. hear him,

Jonathan said;
“My ambition is not worth the blood of anybody.”

Buhari said;
If I dont win, 'the baboon and dog will be soaked in blood'.

Each man has stayed true to his word!

Does it mean that Buhari as a revised military officer has not accomplished the number of human heads that he wants to see rolling hence the use of Boko Haram becomes inevitable? He that kills by the sword shall did by the sword.

The simple fact that it is difficult to recall any widely reported/noted occasions where Buhari at least, busted out, condemning the Bokoharam and co, seem his greatest undoing.

I hate Buhari with passion.

We remain innocent until proven guilty. if the CAN chief can prove the General is the leader of boko haram, he should quickly file a suit against him in a competent court of law, after all he's a friend to the president he can easily get the presidency back up. this christian political leader is getting on my nerve

OMAJE4: The only sensible thing in the entire epistle worthy of mentioning for those who'd want a summary is a contrast between the post election stance of Buhari and Jonathan as pointed out by the writer of the very long sermon without knowing he was shooting his paymaster on the foot. hear him,

Jonathan said;
“My ambition is not worth the blood of anybody.”

Buhari said;
If I dont win, 'the baboon and dog will be soaked in blood'.

Each man has stayed true to his word!

You don't have to support Buhari yet say the truth
You need not be a rocket scientist to know the dog and the baboon will be blood soaked IF the 2015 elections are rigged
He only said violence will result if elections are
manipulated
Stop denigrating the man

Question:Is PDP planning to rig the election or not?
Question:Why is PDP mulling the idea not to conduct party primaries for the 2015 elections?
Question:Why was the master rigger i.e. Tony Anenih aka Mr Fix It installed as PDP BOT chairman?
Question:Why is the PDP administering oaths of secrecy to its staff?

The answer is blowing in the wind

ochukoccna:

You don't have to support Buhari yet say the truth
You need not be a rocket scientist to know the dog and the baboon will be blood soaked IF the 2015 elections are rigged
He only said violence will result if elections are
manipulated
Stop denigrating the man

Question:Is PDP planning to rig the election or not?
Question:Why is PDP mulling the idea not to conduct party primaries for the 2015 elections?
Question:Why was the master rigger i.e. Tony Anenih aka Mr Fix It installed as PDP BOT chairman?
Question:Why is the PDP administering oaths of secrecy to its staff?

The answer is blowing in the wind

Another dog and baboon crusader...

Let me try to answer your point.

question 1, can you prove that PDP is planning to rig 2015 election? Why take medicine for a disease that is unknown?
Question 2, how does conducting primary election in PDP concern Buhari? If PDP decided that he wanted to choose another means of conducting its primary, how does that affect you? Are a member of PDP? At least we can attest to some primary conducted by PDP in the past, can you just mention one primary election conducted by ACN?
Question 3, PDP can decide whoever they want as their B.O.T. chairman, just as APC can decide to instal Boko Haram progenitor, Ali Modu Sherrif as its BOT chairman. How does that affect Buhari and you?
Question 4, in ACN before you are even given a form to fill, you will sign your resignation letter. You are bounded by their leaders to even think of going to court against their party. At least there are many cases in court against PDP by its member. Why are you so particular about internal workings of PDP?

Unfortunately, I ended up asking more question to answer your question.

I no be Boko Haram !

Put me dooooown I say I no be Boko Haram.

Ok, put me down ozawise I go file for appeal court.

Ok Ok I beg. Just put me down. I beg. I nogo fight baboon and dog again.

OMAJE4: The only sensible thing in the entire epistle worthy of mentioning for those who'd want a summary is a contrast between the post election stance of Buhari and Jonathan as pointed out by the writer of the very long sermon without knowing he was shooting his paymaster on the foot. hear him,

Jonathan said;
“My ambition is not worth the blood of anybody.”

Buhari said;
If I dont win, 'the baboon and dog will be soaked in blood'.

Each man has stayed true to his word!

God bless you

Alxmyr:

Another dog and baboon crusader...

Let me try to answer your point.

question 1, can you prove that PDP is planning to rig 2015 election? Why take medicine for a disease that is unknown?
Question 2, how does conducting primary election in PDP concern Buhari? If PDP decided that he wanted to choose another means of conducting its primary, how does that affect you? Are a member of PDP? At least we can attest to some primary conducted by PDP in the past, can you just mention one primary election conducted by ACN?
Question 3, PDP can decide whoever they want as their B.O.T. chairman, just as APC can decide to instal Boko Haram progenitor, Ali Modu Sherrif as its BOT chairman. How does that affect Buhari and you?
Question 4, in ACN before you are even given a form to fill, you will sign your resignation letter. You are bounded by their leaders to even think of going to court against their party. At least there are many cases in court against PDP by its member. Why are you so particular about internal workings of PDP?

Unfortunately, I ended up asking more question to answer your question.

Their hypocrisy stinks