In recalling historical facts to underline that Buhari, like the leopard, has not changed from the tough-talking sadist that he is, Soyinka says the grounds on which he is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but also pitifully naive. Among his crimes, Soyinka reminds us of the draconian laws of his regime, exemplified by Decree 20 under which the judicial murder of Nigerian citizens, Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) was permitted. Ogedengbe, particularly, was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital punishment at the time it was committed.

Descartes:
Coming from a Sharia lover

Johnnyessence:

I Won't Drag Religion Into Politics If Elected- Gen. Buhari
In other words, I would drag Religion to politics if not elected.
Please change the Topic if that is not what you or he means

Johnnyessence:
in 2015 by special grace of God if giving d chance buhari will move mountains buhari will be our Mandela of our times.

jay2pee:
Buhari is a religious man... He is a tribalist and a tyrant as well. If u doubt me, read his past history and confirm.... He is not worthy of being d president of dis country cos if it happens, he zill turn dis country into an Islam state

Jesusloveyou:
Since 1986 of pdp existed,they have not be able to do one-tenth of what buhari wil do in 4yrs.nigeria wil be great again.

Johnnyessence:
APC manifestos will make him work well with d right people. NATIONAL SECURITY
Urgently address capacity building of law
enforcement agents in terms of quantity and quality
as this is critical in safeguarding the sanctity of lives
and property;
Establish a well-trained, adequately equipped and
goals driven Serious Crime Squad to combat
terrorism, kidnapping, armed robbery, militants,
ethno-religious and communal clashes nationwide;
Begin widespread consultations to amend the
Constitution to enable States and Local
Governments to employ State and Community Police
to address the peculiar needs of each community.
This would mean setting boundaries for Federal,
State and Community Police through new Criminal
Justice legislation to replace the Criminal Code, the
Penal Code and the Police Act.
Push for more support in the security and economic
stability of the sub-region [ECOWAS] and AU as a
whole and maintain a strong, close and frank
relationship with West Africa, South Africa, UK, USA,
Canada, and other African countries.
JOB CREATION AND THE ECONOMY
Maintain sound macro-economic policy environment,
run an efficient government and preserve the
independence of the Central Bank;
Restore and strengthen financial confidence by
putting in place a more robust monitoring,
supervising and regulating of all financial
institutions;
Make our economy one of the fastest growing
emerging economies in the world with a real GDP
growth averaging 10% annually;
Embark on vocational training, entrepreneurial and
skills acquisition scheme for graduates along with
the creation of Small Business Loan Guarantee
Scheme to create at least 1 million new jobs every
year, for the foreseeable future;
Integrate the informal economy into the mainstream
and prioritize the full implementation of the National
Identification Scheme to generate the relevant data;
Expand domestic demand and consider undertaking
associated public works programmes;
Embark on export and production diversification
including investment in infrastructure; promote
manufacturing through agro based industries and
expand sub-regional trade through ECOWAS and AU;
Make Information Technology, Manufacturing,
Agriculture and Entertainment key drivers of our
economy;
Balance the economy across regions by the creation
of 6 new Regional Economic Development Agencies
(REDAs) to act as champions of sub-regional
competitiveness;
Put in place a N300bn regional growth fund (average
of N50bn in each geo-political region) to be
managed by the REDAs, encourage private sector
enterprise and support to help places currently
reliant on the public sector;
Amend the Constitution and the Land Use Act to
create freehold/leasehold interests in land along with
matching grants for states to create a nationwide
electronic land title register on a state by state
basis;
Create additional middle-class of at least 2 million
new home owners in our first year in government
and 1 million annually thereafter; by enacting a
national mortgage system that will lend at single
digit interest rates for purchase of owner occupier
houses.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION, NATIONAL UNITY, SOCIAL
HARMONY
Establish a Conflict Resolution Commission to help
prevent, mitigate and resolve civil conflicts within
the polity;
Bring permanent peace and solution to the Niger
Delta and other conflict prone areas such as
Plateau, Taraba, Bauchi, Borno and Abia in order to
engender national unity and social harmony;
Initiate policies to ensure that Nigerians are free to
live and work in any part of the country by removing
state of origin, tribe, ethnic and religious affiliations
and replace those with state of residence.
AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY
Modernize the sector and change Nigeria from being
a country of self-subsistence farmers to that of a
medium/commercial scale farming nation/producer;
Create a nationwide food inspectorate division with
a view to improving nutrition and eliminating food-
borne hazards;
Inject extra N30bn to the Agricultural sector to
create more agro-allied jobs by way of loans at
nominal interest rates for capital investment on
medium and commercial scale cash crops;
Guarantee a minimum price for selected crops and
facilitate storage of agricultural products as and
when necessary.
INDUSTRIALIZATION
Formulate a robust industrialization policy and
provide a conducive environment for a private sector
led industrial base for the economy, promote
entrepreneurship that would help usher in new
industries, new jobs, new knowledge and utilization
of information and communication technologies;
Create growth centers through the promotion of
industrialization in all regions by encouraging the
use of local resources.
Promote innovation by investing heavily in research,
development, science and technology.
Support diversification of our economy from export
of primary materials to value added goods through
supporting the establishment of a solid industrial
base.
Ensure that key agricultural products such as cocoa
and rubber go through value addition as opposed to
exporting raw materials for industries in other
countries.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Undertake an urgent review of the Public Private
Partnership(PPP) enabling environment with a view
to addressing the legal, regulatory and operational
challenges including introducing enabling legislation
where necessary. In addition, we shall create a
National Infrastructural Development Bank to provide
loans at nominal interest rates exclusively for this
sector to help rebuild our infrastructure and provide
gainful employment;
Generate, transmit and distribute from current 5,000
– 6,000 MW to at least 20,000 MW of electricity
within four years and increasing to 50,000 MW with
a view to achieving 24/7 uninterrupted power supply
within ten years, whilst simultaneously ensuring
development of sustainable/renewable energy;
Embark on a National Infrastructural Development
Programme as a PPP that will ensure the (a)
construction of 3,000km of Superhighway including
service trunks and (b) building of up to 4,800km of
modern railway lines – one third to be completed by
2019;
Enact new legal and regulatory frameworks to
establish independent regulation and incentives to
accelerate public and private sector investment in
seaports, railways and inland waterways;
Embark on PPP schemes with a view to ensuring
that at least one functioning airport is available in
each of the 36 states.
OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
Make the industry and Nigeria one of the world
leading/cutting edge centers for clean oil and gas
technologists, scientists, mega structure installation,
drilling, processing, production engineers supported
with best services and research facilities;
Fully develop the sector’s capacity to absorb more
of the nation’s new graduates in the labour market.
The sector will produce more home-grown world
class engineers and scientists;
Modernize the NNPC and make it the national
energy champion. Consider breaking it up into more
efficient, commercially driven units and strip it of its
regulatory powers and enable it tap into
international capital market;
Enforce the government master plan for oil
companies to end flaring that pollutes the air and
damages people’s health and ensure that they sell
at least half of their gas production within Nigeria;
Speedily pass the much-delayed Petroleum Industry
Bill (PIB) and ensure that local content issues are
fully addressed;
Make Nigeria the world’s leading exporter of LNG
through the creation of strategic partnerships.
EDUCATION
Fully implement and enforce the provisions of the
Universal Basic Education Act with emphasis on
gender equity in primary and secondary school
enrollment whilst improving the quality and
substance of our schools;
Targeting up to 15% of our annual budget for this
critical sector whilst making substantial investments
in training quality teachers at all levels of the
educational system;
Implement performance based education as against
the current certificate based qualification;
Enhance teacher training and improve the
competence of teachers along with vigorous national
inspection;
Make learning experiences more meaningful for
children and make education more cost-effective;
Develop and promote effective use of innovative
teaching methods/materials in schools;
Ensure a greater proportion of expenditure on
university education is devoted to Science and
Technology with more spaces allocated to science
and technology oriented courses;
Establish at least six new universities of science and
technology with satellite campuses in various states;
Establish technical colleges and vocational centers in
each state of the federation;
Provide more conducive environment for private
sector participation in all levels of education;
Establish six centers of excellence to address the
needs of special education;
HEALTHCARE
Prioritize the reduction of the infant mortality rate by
2019 to 3%; reduce maternal mortality by more than
70%; reduce HIV/AIDs infection rate by 50% and
other infectious diseases by 75%; improve life
expectancy by additional 10 years on average
through our national healthy living program;
Increase the number of physicians from 19 per 1000
population to 50 per 1000; increase national health
expenditure per person per annum to about N50,000
(from less than N10,000 currently);
Increase the quality of all federal government owned
hospitals to world class standard within five years;
Invest in cutting edge technology such as
telemedicine in all major health centers in the
country through active investment and partnership
programs with the private sector;
Provide free ante-natal care for pregnant women,
free health care for babies and children up to school
going age and for the aged and free treatment for
those afflicted with infectious diseases such as
tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS;
Boost the local manufacture of pharmaceuticals and
make non adulterated drugs readily available.
SENIOR CITIZENS, YOUTH SPORTS AND CULTURE
Ensure timely payment of retirement benefits for all
pensioned senior citizens and create a poverty
safety net for all aged citizens above the age of 65;
Provide the opportunities for youths to realize,
harness, and develop their full potentials and to
facilitate the emergence of a new generation of
citizens committed to the sustenance of good
governance and service to the people and the
country;
Establish world class sports academy and training
institutes and ensure that Nigeria occupies a place
of pride in global sports and athletics;
Revive the Nigerian football league and put
incentives in place to make it as competitive as
other national leagues;
Put in place measures to identify talents early and
ensure their participation in local and international
games to enable them become professionals;
Mandate schools and communities to create
playgrounds/sports centers with needed equipment
to develop skills;
Assist Nollywood to fully develop into world class
movie industry that can compete effectively with
Hollywood and Bollywood in due course.
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
Ensure the rights of women are protected as
enshrined in our Constitution;
Guarantee that women are adequately represented in
government appointments and provide greater
opportunities in education, job creation and
economic empowerment;
Recognize and protect women empowerment and
gender equality with special emphasis on economic
activities in development and in rural areas;
Promote the concept of reserving a minimum number
of seats in the National Assembly for women.
ENVIRONMENT
Ensure compliance with policies and measures to
halt the pollution of rivers and waterways in the
Niger Delta and other parts of the country;
Create shelter belts in states bordering the Sahara
Desert to mitigate and reverse the effects of the
expanding desert;
Support and accelerate the implementation of
regional water transfer initiatives across the country;
Adopt a holistic approach to erosion and shoreline
protection across the country;
Create teams of volunteers to plant and nurture
economically viable trees in arid regions;
Restructure the Ecological Fund Office to enable it
meet today’s environmental challenges;
Regulate the timber industry to ensure that double
the number of trees felled are planted by the
loggers;
Ensure full compliance with town-planning and
environmental laws and edicts.
FOREIGN POLICY
Make regional integration a priority within ECOWAS
including free trade with a view to ensuring that a
common tariff and currency are achieved by 2020
under Nigeria’s guidance and leadership;
Maintain strong, close and frank relationships within
the Gulf of Guinea, the Commonwealth, South Africa
and the rest of the world;
Establish a new special relationship with the leading
emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India and
China (BRIC) and other strategic partners around
the world.
http://www.allprogressivescongress.org/manifesto

Descartes:
Am sure Buhari has got enough fund to match the astute politician like Atiku

Caseless:
you are always posting like a courtesan-wannabe.

worthytalk:
Buhari should have mercy on Nigeria citizens by withdrawing from the presidential race. His candidature since 2003 has racked enough havoc in the country.
The maiming, the killings and the bombings are as a result of his candidature.
He should stop contesting since his candidature is a threat to national security.