If Buhari Is Easy To Defeat, Why The Fear ? - By Ola’ Idowu

The way supporters of President Jonathan are calling for the APC to make Atiku their presidential candidate reminds me of TV adverts of mosquitoes and roaches begging not to have Baygon or Raid insecticide sprayed on them . If they feel Buhari would be a softer target to defeat why would you be discreetly and indirectly begging your opponents to field a “stronger” candidate in Atiku?

The fear of Buhari has become the beginning of wisdom for many. Let’s remind ourselves again, this is a man who almost single-handedly started a new party four months to the 2011 elections and won over 12 million votes as the candidate of the CPC with 25% of votes across 16 states compared to Jonathan, with all his resources and being the candidate of a 12-year-old party then winning 10 million votes more than Buhari.

Buhari, if selected as the APC presidential candidate, would surely be hinging his campaign on his zero tolerance for corruption, which in the past has seen him come up against allegedly corrupt politicians. Though many accuse him of jailing mostly southern politicians, I can’t recall him crating any Southern politician, drugging him and attempting to bring him back to Nigeria. The fact that he did that to a Northern politician, Umaru Dikko, absolves him of a lot of blame . If he was parochial or partial in his fight against corruption, he would never have crated a northern politician to bring him to justice back home .

Thus if he says he would be fighting corruption and economic sabotage as president in 2015 , there is sure guarantee to believe him compared to this present administration that has remained aloof even in the face of massive corruption and economic sabotage going on in the country .

I’m just amused at the amount of fear Buhari’s candidacy is generating, why the fear if he is easy to defeat?

Its become so ridiculous that you find some of the writers disingenuously calling for the APC to choose Abubakar Atiku as their presidential candidate but I haven’t seen any of the writers present a compelling reason why Jonathan should re-contest in 2015 let alone why Nigerians should vote for him.

Without any iota of doubt corruption and economic sabotage remain Nigeria’s problems and we can’t make any progress as nation unless we fix it. Its not just about sending corrupt people to jail as Buhari did as Head of State, its by the perception you give to people and the international community, the confidence you give to foreign investors that business can be done in Nigeria without giving bribes, the hope you give to millions of young Nigerian graduates, engineers, managers, bankers, business men and women that the country is open for genuine business and people and indeed the entire nation can prosper should they choose to be legitimate.

Under Buhari’s regime, feasibility and pre-feasibility studies for any government project was done by Nigerians with no fee paid to any foreign consultant for a job Nigerians could do.

He ensured that turn around maintenance (TAM) on our refineries was done by Nigerian engineers thereby saving us foreign exchange. He also started paying off all our debts as soon as he in came into power. By the time Buhari’s regime was usurped by IBB we were running a budget surplus all in less than two years, the first and only time that has happened since after the oil boom of the 70s in Nigeria.

The Nigerian budget under the PDP since 1999 has always been a deficit despite oil prices at an all-time high. Under Jonathan since 2010, we’ve consistently ran a budget deficit (which for those who don’t know means we spend more than we earn as a nation to the detriment of the economy and the masses) and under Buhari we had a budget surplus (we earn more than we spend as a nation to the betterment of the economy and the masses). Yet they insist Buhari is easy to defeat, so why the fear?

I leave with feedback I got from a reader on my last article titled: “A Closing Argument for Buhari’s Case”. Chimezie Okezie, writing from chimezie_hse@yahoo.co.uk, wondered why the APC is shying away from building a fanatical followership across the country for Buhari like he has in the North, and why they are treating the issue of unseating President Jonathan with kid gloves. He advocates that the APC should mobilise their registered members to collect their permanent voters cards, and verify they are doing so.

Okezie posits that the APC should start recruiting vowed loyal members as polling booth agents across the country and start training them on how to counter rigging and arm them with readily available technologies that can be used to capture voting (declared results) in each booth and polling unit, with results collated in real time at the APC central campaign coordinating office.

This would ensure that results come in live to APC and there is no way election results can be rigged by the PDP across the country as the results are being collated from each polling unit in real time by the APC, should they deploy the technology Okezie advocates.

He finishes by saying: “If we get our act (APC, Buhari supporters, and Nigerian masses I believe) right, I will close my eyes, beat my chest and tell you that Buhari has won.” This is coming from an ordinary Nigerian. The question I need president Jonathan’s handlers, supporters, media supporters and the PDP to answer is, if Buhari is easy to defeat as they claim, why the fear?

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The TANoids keep asking "why Buhari"? "Why not someone else"? The reason they ask for someone else is the threat Buhari poses to GEJ and PDP. All of a sudden, the TANoids don't call Atiku "born to rule mentality". They are begging for APC to present Atiku or someone else against GEJ.

Time has changed. People are more enlightened that they were three years ago. We now know better.

we dont fear the failure man called buhari rather we want to use a sledge hammer to kill the ant (buhari) by nailing and bombarding him with his atrocities.

buhari will fail as usual wether you vultures like it or no and

it shall be

GEJ TILL 2019

GMB is yet to get our party ticket
He only declared his ambition and the are all shivering.
Tsunami of Change is enroute
Tell alll those thieves to get set
We will develop our Antigraft agencies to have the ability to HUNT down these individuals
Nigerians should say No PDP and Gej
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Buhari is jus a very simple equation!
Check out the voting pattern across the North- its basically on religion! QED!!
Thanks to Bokoharam and fulani killing machines across Christian North, if u think they have forgoten in a hurry, then let's wait for the D-day!
The entire South is for GEJ mark my word!!
No state in the south want a spent force like buhari to become president!!
Don't commit suitcide by 22nd Feb.

The ability to make the right choice despite sentiments attached to tribalism and religion, is a function of the maturity of the mind.

dcaliph:
The ability to make the right choice despite sentiments attached to tribalism and religion, is a function of the maturity of the mind.

Words of wisdom such as the above are like water to a thirsty soul.