sufido123:


Buhari has never denied saying this. Therefore, your argument is not tenable.

That's why I said we should reason with our heads. Over the past two weeks, over 200 or more threads have been opened on Buhari, some lies..some true, how can somebody possibly keep up denying and debunking lies and propaganda being tagged on him?

Your honest reply is requested

Besides you forgot to answer my first question.

Let's reason with our heads here.
Some Proverbs when said in your
language don't mean the same thing
when translated "word for word" into
English. True or False?? ...Give me an
honest answer.

BossAyuk:

That's why I said we should reason with our heads. Over the past two weeks, over 200 or more threads have been opened on Buhari, some lies..some true, how can somebody possibly keep up denying and debunking lies and propaganda being tagged on him?

Your honest reply is requested

Besides you forgot to answer my first question.

Sorry dude, Buhari does not have to refute all the threads. He needs to refute damaging statements that spurned the threads you mentioned. There may have been 200 threads regarding Buhari but 95-99% of the thread centers on the issue of his intolerance especially his tendency to resort to using the street urchins to stoke violence.

The statement about him soaking the dogs and baboons in blood has been out there for at least a year without his denial. Therefore, it is fair to assume he said it. It is obviously too late for him to deny the statement.

As for your question, there is no yes or no answer to the question of whether a statement made in a native language can be translated into English properly. The answer is it depends on who is doing the translation and how proficient he is in both languages.

I do appreciate your civility though. You are unlike Buhari's other supporters that are wont to resort to abuses to drive home their point.

Tell me your friends and I will tell you who you are

Do these people look like a winning team? You be the Judge!

See Buhari's dogs and baboons

MOHAMMUDU BUHARI: THE TOWER OF TERROR AND BIGOTRY

Nigeria has always been a basket case. Things that are abnormal and aberrations takes place in Nigeria everyday; they are commonplace and they assume normality and are acceptable as part of our life. Having illiterate soldiers rail road the whole nation of well educated people was at one time acceptable in the mentality of Nigerians. At the sight of a demented soldier on national television Nigerians rush out to celebrate and welcome the new 'messiah' to Dodan Barrack. The people easily lap up the new soldier of fortune's promises and good intentions and will be glad that the thieves in babariga and tall caps (a la Shagari's) have been arrested and their political parties "dissolved." People will take to the streets to listen to all the new promises of what the new "fedra gonment" will do. They will lap up all the "summarily dismissed," "hearby dissolved," "summarily expelled," and nonsense like "this gonment will not tallrate any indisplin" from the very mouth of lowlifes who are the very epitome of indiscipline! Mohammudu Buhari was one of such undisciplined soldiers that forcefully terminated democratically constituted and elected government

The twin towers of terror, Mohammudu Buhari and his co-traveler Tunde Idiagbon, plotted and terminated the second republic. The second republic was never a worthy venture considering the excesses and corruption of the epicureans in Alhaji Shehu Shagari and Adisa (the self-processed and heavily deluded AMA, Always Mentally Alert) Akiloye's National Party of Nigeria (NPN), but only the people have the right to terminate it through the ballot box. But Buhari has no regard for the ballot box or democratic process that engenders and enthrones democratic regimes. Like any soldier of fortune with a huge personal agenda, Buhari overthrew the government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari. He accused the civilian administration of corruption and bad governance; he called them names and came to the conclusion that they will be "summarily disciplined." On December 31, 1983, Mohammudu Buhari rolled back the hands of the nation's development and stymied the progress of Nigeria. He decided to clean up the mess left behind by the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) and restore order. But rather than dealing with the crooks, philanders, epicureans, grabbers and looters in the NPN and hold them accountable, he chose to punish only a section of the political landscape; he focused on the political opposition that controlled less than 30% of the funds at the time. Buhari arrested, detained and tried all the governors of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) while the erstwhile leaders of the NPN were left untouched and a mere handful of them kept under house arrest.

Buhari's was a selective approach to governance and justice. Not a single Hausa/Fulani man or woman was arrested, interrogated, detained, brought to trial or sent to jail during his dictatorship despite the legions of Southern non-Muslim 'infidels' he detained without trial, sentenced for flimsy reasons, or murdered by retroactive law. It was only Umaru Dikko he went after - for whatever personal reasons - among the dozens of NPN chieftains, but he kept the likes of Professor Ambrose Ali, Chief Olabisi Onabanjo, Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin and Chief Bola Ige in prison. He tried them and retried them until they were found guilty. His goal was to find them guilty and it was at all cost. For him it was better to find the 'infidels' guilty rather than trouble the 'elect.' Buhari incarcerated the UPN governors who brought development to their people and their states and rewarded NPN governors who could not account for the revenue allocations they got and the loans they borrowed with house arrests and freedom to move around! It was Buhari's Northern Agenda, an agenda soaked in his belief in a pious North and determination to deal ruthlessly with the 'infidels,' from the Christian South and its inferior Muslim population who were not Muslim enough..

The repeated imprisonment, trials and tribulations heaped on the UPN governors hastened the untimely demise of Chief Olabisi Onabanjo and Professor Ambrose Alli. Buhari lacked the conscience to care; he was least interested in the fairness of his action. All the ministers of the National Party of Nigeria and their party chieftains such as the former president Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Suleman Takuma, Adamu Ciroma, Yahaya Dikko and many others were left untouched; they were too pious and of a special Northern breed to be touched. Buhari settled for scapegoats and 'infidels' from the South to justify that he was cleaning the nation of corruption when in fact he wore a garment of greed and excesses. He showed very little respect for the law of the land. He even went a step further to backdate laws in order to ensure that three suspected drug pushers, Bartholomew Owoh, Bernard Ogedengbe and Lawal Ojuolape were found guilty by retroactive law, but then that was a drug trade that prominent Northern Nigerian businessmen were well noted for. In doing this, he insulted the civil society and drew the anger and criticism of the Nigerian media, labour unions, the Nigerian Bar Association, the National Association of Resident Doctors, and many other unions and organizations. Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti and his brother, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti suffered greatly from the inhuman actions and detentions of Buhari and his band of plunders. The three drug suspects were found guilty and murdered by retroactive law. Decree No. 20 of 1984 was not only inhuman and illegal in its composition, it was draconian and a law made by fools, because suddenly action that we acceptable and normal when taken were strangely turned into criminal actions. The Public Officers (Protection Against False Accusation) Decree 4 of 1984 was Buhari's gift to the Nigerian Press and its first victims were The Guardian's Tunde Thompson and Nduka Iraboh.

Buhari did not even consider the ministers of Alhaji Shehu Shagari who broke every law, plundered the nation's resources and spent money like it was going out of fashion for any punishment. He did not come to punish the 'saints,' because the saints are too pious. His war against indiscipline (WAI) was conceived in deceit. Only the unholy will be punished for acts of indiscipline. The pious have the right to 'take,' to 'use,' and to 'remove' whatever they want, and their taking, using and removing what they want is holy and righteous before Allah. As far as Buhari was concerned only the people in the South were undisciplined since the North was and still is pure and pious. Only numskulls will hold such silly and stupid believes, but Buhari was far from convinced about the superiority of his Hausa/Fulani race and the purity of Islam. For Buhari, he was right and pure and we (the people in the South) are dead. He considered himself sent by Allah to either purify them or exterminate them all.

The Emir of Gwandu was too pious and as such was at liberty to bring in his 53 suitcases. While the people importing contrabands were predominantly from the North, only the few from the South were arrested and prosecuted. Alhaji Jokolo, the current Emir of Gwandu and son of the then Emir recently said his father only brought back 12 suitcases and not 53. Jokolo, a former colonel in the Nigeria Army said it was General Buhari who instructed him to go to the airport to receive his father, the then Emir. Mustapha Jokolo acknowledged that several suitcases were taken straight from the aircraft to the State House. He said those were for the Chief of Protocol, Dahiru Waziri. They were all in the government of Mohammudu Buhari but Buhari did not put them on trial for bringing contraband goods into the country or for disobeying the law by not taking their luggage through the normal process of inspection. Even Buhari's brother was on that same entourage of the Emir of Gwandu, but all of them are neck and shoulder above the law, and the war against indiscipline does not affect them; they are above such petty laws that were made for commoners and Southerners.

General Buhari has very little education, like the rest of his khaki-wearing comrades who ruled Nigeria by force and by decrees. He attended primary school in Daura and later the Katsina Model School before attending military training at home and overseas. We can safely say that this is another cretin case with very little ability for creative, analytical and constructive thinking. Even his actions as military dictator were causes of concern for the academia, and they worry why any rational person will take those actions or follow the steps Buhari followed. A few months or a year in any military college or cadet program can never prepare any soldier for governance. Soldiers are trained to follow rules and to obey orders; never to run government, lead civilians or be seen in the civil society wearing uniform around. No military training prepare or pretend to prepare a soldier to run a local government or a state. Buhari was poorly educated and has a low intelligence quotient (IQ) to manage the affairs of the people of Katsina State and as such lack what it takes to manage the affairs of Nigeria. He forcefully imposed himself on the Nigerian people and made a terrible work of it; he caused confusion, did the economy no good and dehumanized the civil society. If he failed when he was a dictator, I do not see him succeeding in a democratic, give-and-take environment.

Buhari accepted the Abacha contraption and was one of the first few who embraced Abacha quite early and saw nothing wrong in the annulment of MKO Abiola's freely given mandate. Buhari was therefore rewarded with the chairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) by his friend, General Sani Abacha. The PTF had annual budgets that were far more than what most states of the federation received from the federal purse. The Fund began in 1996 with an initial capital of almost 60 billion naira. It was a duplication of social services and it became the bottomless pit that allowed the Northern Oligarchy to loot the national treasury once again. It was like the return of the Nigerian National Supply Company (NNSC) and contracts were flowing and doing so in abundance, but available only to the Oligarchy who will then turn around to sell the contract papers to a Southerner at huge profit. It all became a joke in Lagos about how some people procured the paper and made billions and some bought the paper and do all the work for little or nothing! Buhari's PTF built roads at federal, state and local government levels at a time when the Federal Ministry of Work lacked the funds to repair roads. PTF also procured drugs at a time when the Federal Ministry of Heath did not have the budget to provide drugs for federal hospitals. It was said that the PTF had 115.6 billion naira available to it as at December 31, 1997, funds that were never audited or properly accounted for. Like Abacha and the rest of his government, the PTF was set up to provide an opportunity to loot without any need for accountability; and corruption and indiscipline were never fought at that level. A wise former head of state would have seen that PTF was an alternative government and he would have rejected the offer to be part of it, but not Mr. Buhari. PTF brought untold opportunities and allowed him to practically rebuild Katsina, Kaduna and the rest of the north while a few projects were thrown at the Southern States.

More roads were built in each of Funtua, Gusau, Kaduna, and Sokoto than in Lagos or Oyo State. Over 70% of the Fund's allocation went into modernizing the roads in the North. For example, roads in Malali Government Reservation Area (GRA) in Kaduna were as good as you can wish for before PTF was set up, but these roads were dualized with PTF's money all the way to Durbar Hotel and beyond. Buhari's idea of Nigeria is one in which the north is superior and it must always take the lion share of everything. Unfortunately Muhammudu Buhari is the presidential candidate of Bola Tinubu, the self-professed leader of the Yoruba people. It is very obvious they have so much in common - brash, uncreative, unimaginative and false superior air. Contractors such as Chagori and Chagori (C&C) and Afri-Projects Consortium were some of the major beneficiaries of the PTF contracts. The PTF even carried out projects in Military barracks despite the fact that those projects have been provided for in the Ministry of Defence's budget. The Armed Forces PTF was allocated 20% of the PTF funds and with it came more funds to loot and no accountability. In the final analysis it was confirmed that Buhari wasted 135 billion naira of the PTF's 146 billion and all this financial abuse during the time Abacha was waging war against indiscipline and corruption (WAIC). The joke is on Abacha, Buhari and their ilk, and I am laughing out loud, really loud.

Human rights violations brought the civil society in confrontation with the twin towers of terror. Buhari and Idiagbon were ruthless and they disregarded every right, every dignity and ignored every court injunction as they inflicted untold pains on human rights organizations, newspapers, labour unions, and the community of editors, journalists, writers, reporters, and opinion leaders. The twin towers were right and we were all wrong and as such detained - kept away for as long as their lordships wanted. It has often been speculated that the reason why Buhari terminated a democratic government was to give him the opportunity to remove the documents relating to the missing Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) missing $2.8 billion. For reasons relating to the missing $2.8 billion, Buhari detained, intimidated, jailed and abused people at will. His detention camps were flung open by his successor and the whole world was shocked beyond believe that a human being will go to any extent to dehumanize other human beings for no reason at all. The unfortunate traveler and the other tower in the Buhari dictatorship, Tunde Idiagbon was no doubt the honest and decent of the two men. Idiagbon was a disciplined soldier who got into a ride with a crooked driver behind the wheels.

There is no doubt in my mind that General Mohammudu Buhari failed in every area of assessment. He lacks the temperament to tolerate democratic culture, he is poorly educated and lack the creative, analytical and strategic thinking required leading a nation like Nigeria. It is true Buhari had gunned his way into power in Nigeria before, essentially an accident of history that should never have happened. He may be qualified to lead the Caliphate but even then the days of the Caliphate have receded into the footnotes of history. Buhari was a soldier who disobeyed his commander in chief and forcefully removed an elected government from office. Besides lacking the moral authority and shared values required of a democratic leader, Buhari's antecedent as minister in the petroleum ministry where funds disappeared and later as chairman of the Petroleum Trust Funds where cases of widespread corruption and sectionalism were rampant necessarily made it imperative to disqualify this former tower of terror.

http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/babsajayi/121010.html

Buhari has been losing elections since when? From his school days in 1951.





and is not about to start winning now!

omonuan:


You don't need to resort to ad hominem attacks to make your point. Buhari holds other people in contempt. The rules do not apply to his tribe and people close to him. He does not hide his irredentism. No disguise and he speaks not nor act like a presidential material. How can a reasonable leader say that he will soak the dogs and the baboons in blood?

Buhari simply has no veneer of civility.

why would you vote for a leader that said stealing is not corruption
why would you vote for a leader that's recorded more than 15000 death in his government of just 4 years.
why would you vote for a leader that can't control his illiterate wife (chai dearigoduo)
why would you vote for a leader that is so incompetent and admit he is saying we have to live with bomb
why would you vote for a leader that refused to visit places of insurgent attack. He has never bn to bornu since 2011
why would you vote for for a president that doesn't have balls to prosecute currupt officials?
why why why ?
well the wind of change is here thou. If we don't get it right now then am sorry for us

Safari29:


why would you vote for a leader that said stealing is not corruption
why would you vote for a leader that's recorded more than 15000 death in his government of just 4 years.
why would you vote for a leader that can't control his illiterate wife (chai dearigoduo)
why would you vote for a leader that is so incompetent and admit he is saying we have to live with bomb
why would you vote for a leader that refused to visit places of insurgent attack. He has never bn to bornu since 2011
why would you vote for for a president that doesn't have balls to prosecute currupt officials?
why why why ?
well the wind of change is here thou. If we don't get it right now then am sorry for us

Because he is not Buhari
Because he does not soak the dogs and the baboons in blood
Because nobody has alleged that he stole 2.8 billion dollars
Because he has never planned a military coup
Because he does not intend to christianise Nigeria
Because he retrained the Niger Delta militants but Buhari has failed to intercede on behalf of the North to stop the blood bath even when boko haram invited him
Need more reasons?

sufido123:


Because he is not Buhari
Because he does not soak the dogs and the baboons in blood
Because nobody has alleged that he stole 2.8 billion dollars
Because he has never planned a military coup
Because he does not intend to christianise Nigeria
Because he retrained the Niger Delta militants but Buhari has failed to intercede on behalf of the North to stop the blood bath even when boko haram invited him
Need more reasons?

because gej is a failure. Stealing is not curruptions.
because gej can't control his illiterate wife ( chai dearigoduo )
because people are tired of bombs
because pdp is Boko Haram
because gej is clueless. otuoke furrkktard
because more than 15000 people have dies only from insurgency and he doesn't give a darm
because get has no ball to prosecute currupt officials rather celebrate and pardon them
because gej has bad advisers
because gej is not competent
because buhari is the change we want. He is competent credible and discipline. check his track record he Is am man of integrity
because gej went dancing after Abuja bomb blast potsukun children killings and has never visited any state in north east since 2011
because of missing $ 20 billion dolars
because he did not do anything in South west. He has bn fixing lag ib exp since 6 yrs. shagam ore Is untouched. apapa road like driving on a moutains. loafs od federal roads untouched
because he admit his cluelessness hence he keeps getting contradictory advices
because he is afraid of bokoharam. They even claimed part of our land oga o

do u need more??

Buhari's mantra of incorruptiblity is one of the biggest lies of the millennium. He is as corrupt as any other corrupt individual.

major466:
Buhari's mantra of incorruptiblity is one of the biggest lies of the millennium. He is as corrupt as any other corrupt individual.

You are right brother! He has not told us what he did with the 2.8 Billion dollars from NNPC and the 25 billion naira from PTF that he allegedly stole.

On a serious note some jokes can be very helpful in relieving stress. However, some can be used to drive home a serious point. As we face a choice between Goons, bloodthirsty terrorists and GEJ. We need to pay attention to the options we have. You may not like GEJ but do you really want Buhari? In 2011 he sanctioned the killings of innocent Nigerians because he lost an election. Buhari is a joke carried too far.

He has threatened to call out the almajiri to soak more baboons and dogs in blood in 2015. As we ponder these jokes, we need to pause and remember those killed by Buhari terrorists in 2011. You and I could be next in 2015. Ikechukwu and Okpokiri lost their lives serving the nation they love because Buhari soaked baboons and dogs in their blood! Now stop laughing take a moment of silence for the following Youth Corpers Killed by Buhari's terrorists in 2011:

The names of the deceased are: Teidi Tosin Olawale (from Osun State, BSc Computer Science); Nkwazema Anslem Chukwunonyerem (Imo State, HND Electrical Electronic Engineering), Okpokiri Obinna Michael (Abia State, BSc Environmental Management), Adowei Elliot (Bayelsa State, BSc Computer Science) and Adewunmi Seun Paul (Ekiti State, BSc, Social Sciences).

Others are Adeniji Kehinde Jehleel (Osun State, BSc Banking & Finance), Gbenjo Ebenezer Ayotunde (Osun State, BSc, Education Economics), Ukeoma Ikechukwu Chibuzor (Imo State, BSc Medical Microbiology) and Akonyi Ibrahim Sule (Kogi State, HND Business Administration).

This is no laughing matter! We should not let history repeat itself. Not in 2015. Let us all say never again! If you vote for Buhari, you would have ratified the killings of these innocent Nigerians and their blood would invariably be on your neck!

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Safari29:

because gej is a failure. Stealing is not curruptions.
because gej can't control his illiterate wife ( chai dearigoduo )
because people are tired of bombs
because pdp is Boko Haram
because gej is clueless. otuoke furrkktard
because more than 15000 people have dies only from insurgency and he doesn't give a darm
because get has no ball to prosecute currupt officials rather celebrate and pardon them
because gej has bad advisers
because gej is not competent
because buhari is the change we want. He is competent credible and discipline. check his track record he Is am man of integrity
because gej went dancing after Abuja bomb blast potsukun children killings and has never visited any state in north east since 2011
because of missing $ 20 billion dolars
because he did not do anything in South west. He has bn fixing lag ib exp since 6 yrs. shagam ore Is untouched. apapa road like driving on a moutains. loafs od federal roads untouched
because he admit his cluelessness hence he keeps getting contradictory advices
because he is afraid of bokoharam. They even claimed part of our land oga o

do u need more??

You offered self serving answers to your own question. If you already knew the answers, why did you ask? boko haram is the military wing of Buharistan. Don't blame any body else but Buhari for boko haram. He is their commander in chief. Again this hogwash that Buhari is not corrupt is lame and tired. Ask him what happened to the 2.8 billion dollars and 25 billion naira he allegedly stole. How about his friends like Atiku and Tinubu, I guess they are saints too.

Let me tell you something, there is no ideological difference between PDP and APC. If Buhari joins PDP, he would fit right in. It is a truism that APC is full of PDP's aggrieved politicians. In fact you can call it Aggrieved PDP CONgress. They are actually former PDP conmen pretending to be pious in order to grab power and go back to their dubious ways.

sufido123:
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You offered self serving answers to your own question. If you already knew the answers, why did you ask? boko haram is the military wing of Buharistan. Don't blame any body else but Buhari for boko haram. He is their commander in chief. Again this hogwash that Buhari is not corrupt is lame and tired. Ask him what happened to the 2.8 billion dollars and 25 billion naira he allegedly stole. How about his friends like Atiku and Tinubu, I guess they are saints too.

Let me tell you something, there is no ideological difference between PDP and APC. If Buhari joins PDP, he would fit right in. It is a truism that APC is full of PDP's aggrieved politicians. In fact you can call it Aggrieved PDP CONgress. They are actually former PDP conmen pretending to be pious in order to grab power and go back to their dubious ways.

look at you. see ur life. If Buhari stole some money as u claimed it to be what is ur daft president doing about it?
Let me tell you something the day that Buhari is being dragged to court and persecuted he ll start losing supports from people drastically. All these ur online allegation can't do shit. drag him to court. Am very sure all of y'all can't cus yall know he is so Innocent. don't u know that the more u attack him on here the more people tends to check his credibility and the more they are convince to support him. I for one was anti buhari before

Don't check into Buhari's roach Motel of deceit. He is a chameleon.

Safari29:



look at you. see ur life. If Buhari stole some money as u claimed it to be what is ur daft president doing about it?
Let me tell you something the day that Buhari is being dragged to court and persecuted he ll start losing supports from people drastically. All these ur online allegation can't do shit. drag him to court. Am very sure all of y'all can't cus yall know he is so Innocent. don't u know that the more u attack him on here the more people tends to check his credibility and the more they are convince to support him. I for one was anti buhari before

Don't blame GEJ for not prosecuting Buhari. First of all, there is what is called statute of limitations. Also, if Jonathan charges Buhari, his goons and street Urchins plus Boko Haram would run amok. These misfits are already killing like killing is going out of style. Moreover, people like you would scream political vendetta

Your assertion that Buhari is innocent is unavailing. He had the opportunity to clear the air about these allegations at Oputa panel but he
chickened out. Ask him to voluntarily submit himself for probe and you'll make a believer out of me.

sufido123:


Don't blame GEJ for not prosecuting Buhari. First of all, there is what is called statute of limitations. Also, if Jonathan charges Buhari, his goons and street Urchins plus Boko Haram would run amok. These misfits are already killing like killing is going out of style. Moreover, people like you would scream political vendetta

Your assertion that Buhari is innocent is unavailing. He had the opportunity to clear the air about these allegations at Oputa panel but he
chickened out. Ask him to voluntarily submit himself for probe and you'll make a believer out of me.

hehe let make something clear to you. if buhari becomes president today and found Jonathan guilty of some currupt practice do u think jonathan won't be in jail??
how else do you want Buhari to throw himself out.a someone prospecting to be nigerian president for the fourth time? do u think if he is guilty of any offence against him he Wd have that confidence of coming out and support of the people??

Buharistan voters are different from the standard in the south as always. In Buharistan, 1 day old child votes. They use these voters register to propound their spurious numerical strength. In the South the minimum age is 18th while in the north, it is 1 minute old. This is part of the scheme to continue to cheat the South since 1914.

In Education if you score 2%, you get admission into federal institutions but if you are from the south 138 won't get you anywhere. You've seen the huge number of voters they release from the north: it includes anybody that has a pulse plus the goats, chickens and cows plus Chadians and Nigeriens-people from Niger!

They vote and then mutate after voting into baboons and dogs looking for southern blood to soak. The south is doomed with Buhari!

Buhari in the shadows waiting to pounce

Buhari is the chief imam of Buharistan. Buhari's blood soaking techniques are being studied worldwide. Experts are trying to figure how to stop him from soaking more dogs & baboons in blood come 2015. No body wants a repeat of 2011. The real English translation of the book here is:

" Buhari's Encyclopedia of Dog and Baboon Soaking Techniques, Sharia Implementation, Islamofascism and Suicide Bombing for Dummies"

Who is Afraid of Goodluck Jonathan? (1)

on December 02, 2014 / in Femi Aribisala 7:54 am / Comments


By Femi Aribisala
Goodluck Jonathan must be the most feared Head of State in the history of Nigeria.

Some people say Goodluck Jonathan is “clueless.” They would also have us believe he is a weak president. If so, how come his opponents are greatly afraid of him? People are not inclined to fear weaklings. Therefore it is telling that Goodluck Jonathan must be the most feared Head of State in the history of Nigeria.

Since he was thrown up as president by divine providence, Jonathan has elicited the most vociferous opposition ever. Every trick in the book has been thrown at him to stop him from becoming president and from continuing to be president. At every turn, this has failed woefully. The evidence indicates that the opposition is convinced that Jonathan is unstoppable at the polls. Therefore, the emphasis has been directed more at preventing him from running for president and at frustrating his rule than at defeating him at the 2015 election.

Serial losers

Jonathan fought the 2011 election with a mystic that completely overwhelmed the opposition. A cabal from the North insisted another Northerner must complete Yar’Adua’s term of office. In the process, they turned the election into a regional contest. A clique in the PDP decided to shortlist and select a Northern opponent against Jonathan, convinced that his defeat would be a foregone conclusion.

They rejected a former president, Ibrahim Babangida, and chose Atiku Abubakar, a former vice-president no less, and heir of the much-vaunted PDM political machinery of the late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua; to apply the knock-out punches to Jonathan in the PDP presidential primaries of 2011. But surprise surprise, the election was not even close. Jonathan not only defeated Atiku, he practically eviscerated the man.

Thereafter, the hope of the Northern cabal fell to another regional champion, Mohammadu Buhari. On paper, Jonathan was no match for Buhari. Buhari was much better known and much better hyped. He had been Head of State some 30 years earlier, and had refused to leave the political scene thereafter. He fought the election for the presidency twice and lost twice. Then he had to face Jonathan, allegedly a “greenhorn.”

Again, the election was not close. Jonathan dismantled Buhari with a plurality of over 10 million votes. He even obtained 8 million votes in the North, to Buhari’s 12 million. Then he practically cleaned up in the South. From then on, the fear of Jonathan became the political wisdom of the cabal. This has manifested in a number of shenanigans in the past four years. However, the outcome of these has only been to strengthen Jonathan’s position as he proceeds to go to the electorate again in 2015 to seek a second-term in office.

Sour grapes

Having lost the PDP primaries ignominiously to Jonathan, Atiku became a prophet of doom. He said: “those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable.” Of course, the only change that is peaceful is the one whereby Jonathan either foregoes re-election or is defeated at the polls. A Jonathan victory was, in the logic of Atiku, an invitation to violent change.

But one needs to ask the former vice-president this question: “Would the proposed violent change spare prophet Atiku, who was vice-president for eight years and who is alleged to have cornered juicy public companies from his vantage point as head of the privatization program under Obasanjo?” Perceptions are sometimes more important than reality. Therefore, violent change would also have Atiku as one of its primary targets.

For his part, the threats of Muhammadu Buhari during the 2011 election campaign led to widespread violence by his supporters in the North after he lost. They went on a rampage; looting and killing; in spite of the fact that, by all accounts, the elections were adjudged the most free and fair in the history of Nigeria’s current democratic experiment. By the time the mayhem had subsided, over 1000 people had been slaughtered in cold blood, including innocent National Youth Service Corp members, and some 65,000 Nigerians became displaced.

Undaunted, Buhari went on to declare in a statement made pointedly in Hausa in a BBC interview that: “If what happened in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood.”

Phantom agreement

Having realised that by some political alchemy, Goodluck Jonathan is impregnable at the polls, the strategy of his opponents has been to insist that he cannot seek re-election, instead of making concrete plans about how to defeat him at the polls. The Niger State governor, Babngida Aliyu, suddenly came up with the allegation that Jonathan had earlier signed an agreement with some governors in 2011 that he would not seek re-election but would only serve for one term; after which the PDP presidential candidacy would be zoned to the North.

This was curious at best. Northerners had ruled the country for long stretches of 38 out of 54 years; at no time were any of them required to sign term-limit agreements. But now that it was the turn of a South-South president, we were meant to believe such an agreement was extracted from him by Northern governors. In any case, where exactly was this agreement? If it existed, then it should be published for all to see.

However, Aliyu and his cohorts could not produce the alleged document, leading to the conclusion that it was nothing more than another ruse. The president’s men were unequivocal in maintaining that Jonathan signed no such agreement. Even if he did, everyone knows that there is no honour among Nigerian politicians. Therefore, that gambit also turned out to be a waste of time.

Legal option

The next strategy was to contest Jonathan’s eligibility to seek re-election in the courts; on the grounds that he has been president for two terms already. This strategy failed woefully. Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi ruled from the FCT that Jonathan’s assumption of office after the untimely death of President Yar’Adua fell under the National Assembly’s doctrine of necessity. The Constitution stated that no man could be elected president more than twice for a total of eight years. But Jonathan has only been elected president once.

Justice Oniyangi said: “After the death of Umaru Yar’adua, there was no election or by-election, President Jonathan was merely asked to assume the office of the President in line with the doctrine of necessity. He was not elected as the President but was made to assume office by virtue of Yar’adua’s death. Having exhausted the late President’s tenure, he sought for his party’s ticket and ran for the office of the President successfully in the 2011 general elections. He is therefore currently serving his first tenure of office, and if he so wishes he is eligible to further seek his party’s ticket through the party’s primary election and to run for office in 2015.”

Opposition threats

This called for yet another strategy, therefore the opposition decided to employ fire and brimstone. Lawal Kaita, now of the opposition APC, said: “We will make Nigeria ungovernable for Jonathan.” The objective remained the same. These people knew they could not defeat Jonathan at the polls; therefore their primary assignment was to prevent him from running for re-election.

Junaid Mohammed fired one of the early salvos. He said: “Quote me, if Jonathan insists on running, there will be bloodshed and those who feel short-changed may take the warpath.”
Senator Joseph Waku of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) followed suit: “President Jonathan should not even contemplate making any move to contest the 2015 election because such will be catastrophic.” Murtala Nyako, the former governor of Adamawa, echoed this, saying: “we must stop President Goodluck Jonathan’s attempt to go for second term, as that will lead to civil war.”

What has happened to Waku’s catastrophe and Nyako’s civil war? These were all vain threats. Who did Nyako have in mind to fight his civil war for him? Since making these threats, Nyako has been ignominiously removed as governor of Adamawa State. Nobody shed any crocodile tears for him. On the other hand, his nemesis, Goodluck Jonathan has declared that he is running for second term and there has not been a riot, not to talk of civil war. As a matter of fact, he has been endorsed as the sole candidate of the PDP.

Preparing for defeat

This means back to the drawing-board for the APC. Since they now know they cannot stop Jonathan from contesting, they have started planning for their anticipated defeat at the polls. Their position is simple. If Jonathan wins, then they would claim the election was rigged. That would be grounds for bringing out the thugs and area boys to kill, steal and destroy.

Thus, the APC started accusing the PDP of rigging an election that has yet to take place. In a speech made during Buhari’s declaration of his fourth bid for the presidency, Rotimi Amaechi said: “We will punish these people… They are banking on using security against us. We shall teach them lesson. We will fight with our body, with our lives because there must be change this time.”

At the APC’s so-called Salvation Rally, Amaechi declared that the APC will form a parallel government if the 2015 election is rigged. This is disingenuous because everyone knows that the only way the APC will not insist the election is rigged is if it wins. Every election that the APC has won has been free and fair; but every election it has lost has been rigged. In effect, the APC is already threatening treasonable felony if it loses the forthcoming presidential election.

Queried about this stand, Lai Mohammed, the Publicity Secretary of the APC said that has been the stand of the APC since the Osun State gubernatorial election. In which case, had APC lost Osun it would have decided to create mayhem. Lai Mohammed declared: “Let us remind the presidency, in case it has forgotten, that election fraud triggered a civil war in Algeria in the early 1990s, led to the killing of over 1,000 people in post-election riots in Kenya in 2007/2008 and fired a near revolution in Iran in 2009/2010.”
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Who Is Afraid of Goodluck Jonathan? (2)

on December 16, 2014 / in Femi Aribisala 11:25 am / Comments


By Femi Aribisala
APC members have shown greater determination in attacking the Nigerian government than in attacking the Boko Haram.

On September 24, 2014, Atiku Abubakar of the APC declared at the Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja that he was running to be president of Nigeria. The occasion was without incident. This was followed on October 15, 2014 by Muhammadu Buhari of the APC who declared in Eagle’s Square, Abuja that he was also running for president. Again, the occasion was without incident.

But on November 10, 2014, the day before Goodluck Jonathan declared that he was running for president at Eagle Square in Abuja, the Boko Haram struck. 50 students were killed and about 80 injured in a suicide bombing in Potiskum, Yobe State. This shows in clear and unambiguous terms that the Boko Haram has no problem with either Atiku or Buhari running for president. But it is against Goodluck Jonathan.

Brotherhood of insurgency

The “coincidence” between Boko Haram assaults and PDP events and their lack of incidence at APC events has become a standard operational procedure. On September 26, 2014, Rabiu Kwankwaso, PDP governor of Kano State, and four other PDP governors, defected to the APC. Bombs did not explode as a result of this. However, on April 14, 2014, the day before Ibrahim Skekarau, former governor of Kano State was welcomed by Jonathan to the PDP at a rally in Kano after defecting from the APC; over 80 people were killed by the Boko Haram with a bomb planted at the Nyanya motor park near Abuja.

It is incontestable that the Boko Haram script against the PDP aligns conveniently with the interests of the APC. Indeed, instead of condemning the Boko Haram for killing innocent Nigerians, the APC seizes on these murderous incidents to attack the PDP for not cancelling the events both the Boko Haram and the APC are determined should not hold.

Accordingly, Lai Mohammed, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, accused the president of dancing “Azonto” on the occasion of Shekarau’s defection rally instead of being concerned about the killings. When the bombs went off the day before Jonathan’s declaration of his candidacy, Mohammed again declared as “utterly insensitive and absolutely callous” the decision of the president not to cancel the scheduled event; saying the president was: “dancing on the graves of the students.” But as any right-thinking person knows, cancelling the event would have been tantamount to succumbing to Boko Haram blackmail.

APC readily exploits national calamities in order to score cheap political points. This leads to the conclusion that it is either complicit in the attacks or insensitive to them. The APC does not seem to believe it can win the coming election against a sitting president and an entrenched PDP. Therefore, its assignment is that of an unscrupulous mischief-maker that would do anything and use anything to undermine the government of Nigeria.

Who is afraid of Goodluck Jonathan running for president in 2015? Two main protagonists have a consanguinity of interests: the Boko Haram and the APC.

Boko Haram apologists

There can be no question that the interests of the Boko Haram and those of the APC are in tandem; leading observers like Femi Fani-Kayode to declare that as the IRA (Irish Republican Army) was the armed wing of the political Sinn Fein in Britain; so can the Boko Haram be described as the armed wing of the APC in Nigeria. As a confirmation of this, APC members have shown greater determination in attacking the Nigerian government than in attacking the Boko Haram. However, now that they are fishing for votes nationally, some of their prominent Northern figures are now attacking the insurgents.

Let us take, for example, the position of the presidential candidate they have finally chosen; three-time loser Muhammadu Buhari. For years Buhari, who often betrays inadvertently his true colours as a sectional and sectarian Northern champion, was an ardent apologist for the Boko Haram. In an interview with Kaduna’s Radio Liberty in November 2012, Buhari demanded that the Federal Government should stop the clampdown of Boko Haram insurgents, insisting they should be given special treatment like the Niger Delta militants.

These are Buhari’s words: “They (the Niger Delta militants) were trained in some skills and were given employment, but the ones in the north were being killed and their houses were being demolished. They are different issues. What brought this? It is injustice.” That same year, Buhari said he does believe there is a real movement called Boko Haram and claimed the federal government of Nigeria was: “the biggest Boko Haram.”

Wole Olaniyi was a fly in the wall at a meeting in Kano Government House in 2013 designed to persuade rebel PDP governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, to decamp to the APC. Assuming that only Northerners were present, Buhari declared the Boko Haram was a “strategic plan” by the government of Goodluck Jonathan to “destroy the North.” When Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states, Buhari came out against it. Seeing the conflict with Northern goggles, Buhari claimed Goodluck Jonathan was using the insurgency as an excuse to wage war on the North.

Attempt at volte face

It is necessary to remind Nigerians of this position of Buhari because now that he is shopping for Christian and Southern votes, he is singing a different tune. He is now smooth-talking Nigerians; naming Christians before Moslems in his speeches, and putting the South before the North in them. But let us not forget that Buhari was so clearly identified as a friend of the Boko Haram that, in November 2012, Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulaziz, the second-in-command to Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, in announcing a readiness to negotiate a ceasefire with the Nigerian government, named Buhari as one of the few “trusted” Nigerians it would be ready to negotiate with.

Buhari’s blatant sectarianism has not gone unnoticed. Ayo Oritsejafor, president of the PFN (Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria) was so incensed by Buhari’s defense of the Boko Haram insurgency that he asked that Buhari should be arrested. Oritsejafor said: “This can only mean that the retired General is a fanatic. 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 is why I call for the arrest of Buhari now. Buhari is a big security risk to Nigeria’s corporate existence.”

Truly progressive Northerners also sought to distance themselves from Buhari’s sectarianism. Jibril Mamman Vatsa, spokesman of the Arewa Youths Forum, said: “Buhari does not speak for all Northern leaders. His statements on Boko Haram exist as part of a continuum of Northern leaders’ responses to the problem, which have ranged from proposing dialogue to condemning the FG’s approach to, if some allegations are to be believed, actively supporting the movement. If the Boko Haram members are becoming more daring by the day, it is because of the support given to them by some highly placed persons.”

Refurbished image

However, now that Buhari is gunning again for the presidency and seeking votes from a national constituency, the need has now arisen for him to tamp down his pro Boko Haram rhetoric.
Therefore, in an about turn, he is now pretending to be a big critic of the Boko Haram. He says: “These people, whose actions are not sanctioned by any religion and who subscribe to no known values, will not succeed. Our people are resilient and strong, and our nation is capable, based on our rich human and material resources, of successfully tackling these nihilists. We will together see the end of them and their reign of terror.”

Buhari’s new stance should not be believed. A chameleon can only change its colour; it cannot change its shape. Buhari would now like us to see him as the Messiah who would bring the Boko Haram insurgency, which he said was a Southern ruse, under control. To do this successfully, Buhari needed to be refurbished as an enemy of the Boko Haram. Into this new playbook came the alleged attack on his life by the insurgents.

APC supporters should forgive me for being totally cynical about this. The so-called attack on Buhari’s life benefits no one but Buhari himself because it fits into his new script of trying to distance himself from the Boko Haram. Buhari does not normally go around in a bullet-proof car. But quite conveniently, when he was attacked, he had borrowed one especially on that occasion. His car was not bombed but sprayed with bullets. Some people died from the attendant bomb blast, but not a single one of Buhari’s aides died. In any case, the Boko Haram never declared they were the ones after Buhari.

APC blunder

Rather than condemn Buhari’s attackers, the APC was more interested in using the incident to absolve itself of complicity in the spate of terrorist attacks in Nigeria. Lai Mohammed issued a statement saying: “If indeed the APC is behind Boko Haram and General Buhari is a sympathiser of the evil group, as the Federal Government wants the world to believe, could it be that the insurgents do not know their leaders or sympathisers, assuming they are behind the attacks? Whatever happens now, the satanic and repulsive theory of the PDP-led Federal Government that the opposition APC is using Boko Haram to truncate the administration of Jonathan is up in flames.”

Lai Mohammed blundered with this statement. It easily leads to the conclusion that the whole point of the attack on Buhari was to launder the image of the APC and distance it from the Boko Haram. This was quickly recognized by the PDP.

Olisa Metuh, the PDP national publicity secretary said: “We are shocked, disappointed and disgusted that the APC leaders chose to use the ugly development to embark on image laundering. Nigerians now ponder; they ask, was the attack a setup aimed at scoring some political points? Or could it be APC’s desperate strategy of trying to disentangle itself from the internationally acknowledged link with terrorists and possibly undermine the planned probe of their involvement by the United Kingdom?”
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Who would have thought?

Message to Nigerians from haven by two of the victims of Buhari mayhem in 2011.

How we go do now?

Institute of Buhari studies

Buhari's new book to be launched soon. The chairman of the occasion would be Imam Shekau and special guest will be Mathew Aremu Okikiola Olu Obasanjo. Foreword of the book will be done by ISIS and Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood will send a special delegate.

Buhari is his own worst enemy!

omonuan:


Tell this to the marines. If you have a relative killed by Buhari's goons in 2011 after he lost the election, you won't be diverting attention from Buhari. I guess you need to provide any evidence that the dogs and the baboons will not be soaked in blood. We need to pre-empt blood thirsty Buhari supporters from soaking more baboons and dogs in blood. Say no to violence and threat to call out the almajiri for a blood bath like your hero has done.

Did Kaita make the threat of dogs and baboon too? No more bloodshed I'd say. Buhari needs to come out and repudiate his reprehensible threat to soak the blood of dogs and baboons in human blood and he needs to do it fast. Otherwise those of us who are opposed to violence will continue the full court press.

Yours has been presented to the dogs.

docadams:


Yours has been presented to the dogs.

I guess to this kind of dogs. Sai Buhari! By the time he finishes soaking dogs and baboons in blood, you won't find any dog to present gripes to. We are on the same team and you did not even know it. Help Omonuan and I to save the dogs from Buhari's violence.

The dogs are crying for help. Be humane stop Buhari and his urchins from themselves.