TippyTop:


OBJ saying Buhari is not a thief is same as Anini exonerating Oyenusi of robbery allegations.
OBJ himself is corrupt, he looted #16bil trying to fix electricity, he has no moral authority to speak about corruption.

rozayx5:


guess he will run arewa republic with sales from Onions

Ngwakwe:


All these children on Nairaland with zero life experience won't learn from gladiators but choose to rely only on search engines when they can't distinguish between fictions and real life stories.

The good thing about my comments and critiques are their credibility and reliability borne out of rich experience and on the spot analyses.

PUSH1:
Please bring your facts to the table about the Sure-P programme of GEJ administration. Let's dialogue, transparency is the watch word. A little evidence is better than non.

LRNZH:


Were you on the PTF board between 1993 and 1998? I don't think so. How can you be so sure of what transpired?

Any claim to corruption was also what you read from the internet. I will suggest you start a thread on what the perceived corruption with PTF are but don't derail this thread.

If you observe, claims of PTF corruption surfaced when Buhari started contesting for Presidency just to discredit him unlike the OP from 1998.

I doubt you read the article. There is even criticism of PTF for making some allocation to the military as instructed by probably Abacha.

A lot of Nigerians can attest to seeing the results of PTF intervention unlike any other intervention fund including SURE-P where N500Billion is missing.

I am done with you please.

poiZon:


are u in d sure-p board? so na una dey kill us abi makng us cast our frustratn on that young man, na God go punish u n ur likes. so u mean abacha of all people could be mentioned in ur post

rozayx5:
any projects from.his days as head of state
or is ptf all he can cling to

azzy1:
a whole lot go to most universities and polythecnics in the country you will works done by ptf that arestill standing,a very good example is my university library which was built some years back,the present students are still using same facility till date.

azzy1:
a whole lot go to most universities and polythecnics in the country you will works done by ptf that arestill standing,a very good example is my university library which was built some years back,the present students are still using same facility till date.

azzy1:
a whole lot go to most universities and polythecnics in the country you will works done by ptf that arestill standing,a very good example is my university library which was built some years back,the present students are still using same facility till date.

Ngwakwe:


Nobody is talking about what money can do or did rather the flaws in its management as it relates to equitable distribution across regions and the exaggerated estimates without details for further verification for most listed items which I know are lies.

PTF was synonymous with corruption against what the article portrayed and the distribution was engraved in ethnocentric policies hence my criticism of the whole write-up.

TippyTop:

Did you read those articles posted by atlwireles? Or your brain is too small to decipher the article?

Maser:

LRNZH:


This thread is over 1 month old now. I asked him/them the same question.... no answer. Even a single achievemnt of SURE-P. None!

bennygee:
SURE-P has been busy buying umblerras" for commuters to use while waiting for the promised buses since 2012.

I just saw this....
Umblerras

laimo:
I know in the PTF days,there was massive road constructions never again replicated since pdp seized the presidency.

We still see even bedsheets distributed then by PTF headed by Buhari at Federal Government Hospitals around Nigeria.

We all know the SURE-P(which is a failure) concept was borrowed from the PTF. But like everything pdp,Sure-p is a failure.

LRNZH:


A man's true character does not wait for positions of leadership to manifest. Just read the following pockets facts about GMB. Mind you we have no records of GEJ's achievements as Bayelsa's Governor or Dep. Governor.

GMB Pocket Facts

Remember Buhari's regime only lasted from December 31, 1983 – August 27, 1985. Barely two years. Even at that, he stabilized the inflation rate and stamped out misappropriation of funds from the Shagari era.

Apart from being a military president, He was
1. Governor of the then Northeastern State (August 1975 – March 1976), under Gen. Murtala Mohammed;

2.Federal Commisioner (Minister) of Petroleum (March 1976 – July 1978) when the Warri and Kaduna Refineries were built; and

3. PTF Chairman (1993 - 1998). A 1998 report in New African praised the PTF under Buhari for its transparency, calling it a rare "success story".

No portfolio that GEJ had held in history has had a success history close to GMB's performance.

GEJ promised Stable Power in 2011 and Refineries in 2012. Where are they?

LRNZH:


A man's true character does not wait for positions of leadership to manifest. Just read the following pockets facts about GMB. Mind you we have no records of GEJ's achievements as Bayelsa's Governor or Dep. Governor.

GMB Pocket Facts

Remember Buhari's regime only lasted from December 31, 1983 – August 27, 1985. Barely two years. Even at that, he stabilized the inflation rate and stamped out misappropriation of funds from the Shagari era.

Apart from being a military president, He was
1. Governor of the then Northeastern State (August 1975 – March 1976), under Gen. Murtala Mohammed;

2.Federal Commisioner (Minister) of Petroleum (March 1976 – July 1978) when the Warri and Kaduna Refineries were built; and

3. PTF Chairman (1993 - 1998). A 1998 report in New African praised the PTF under Buhari for its transparency, calling it a rare "success story".

No portfolio that GEJ had held in history has had a success history close to GMB's performance.

GEJ promised Stable Power in 2011 and Refineries in 2012. Where are they?

Swiftboy:
Refineries are working up to 80% capacity. I am a fresh graduate of Chemical Engineering and some of my mates did their I.T in them...we saw these when we were defending our report with power point slides. God safe Nigeria from our enemies that want to take power by all means. 2ndly its funny you said Buhari built refineries. Which history did you read? He did not create any job but sent companies packing. There's been light in my hood most time please ask your PHCN. Beside power plants have always been vandalised. Smh for Nigerians. About sure-p you cant deny it people are using sure-p branded vehicles as taxi...this is what I see all around.

LRNZH:


You miss the point.
Even as a political adversary, OBJ (since you claim he is a devil) could not use corruption against GMB because there is none.
What they used in 2003, 2007, 2011 and now is religious scaremongering.
You cannot stick a corruption charge on GMB. It won't work.

nagoma:


Are you a learner? You must have been a toddler in the mid and late 90s or you are just been mischievous by comparing the excellent and efficient PTF project execution to the the looting and no work that goes on in GEJ's government now.

LRNZH:


Fresh graduate and you are lying like this. Abi is it not the same Nigeria that we both live in?

No wonder IBB said that the youth are not ready to lead Nigeria.

Swiftboy:
If you're faced with the truth that's contrary to your opinion it becomes a lie weldone. Keep your Buhari online pR. Going. Truth is we'll need more refineries and two refineries are already being built by Dangote.

Mopolchi:
Between the two, I am yet to decide. But I think Jona has started some meaningful projects in power, food and job. May be the impact of these is small, at least, there is an impact. The sector heavily hampered under Jona is security. For Buhari, I am not sure that he can take this nation to the next level. He has ruled and fought corruption, which took much of his time as our leader and many people suffered. Take this instance into perspective, around 1983-85, Gen Buhari closed down most canteens in our universities just because of corruption which marred the management of these canteens. The result of this act was that many suffered to buy things they would need. In fact, oga Jona doing his Ph.D. then, had to stand in line throughout the night to buy just 2 tins of milk. Hope this is not the kind of government you want from Buhari?

Mopolchi:
Between the two, I am yet to decide. But I think Jona has started some meaningful projects in power, food and job. May be the impact of these is small, at least, there is an impact. The sector heavily hampered under Jona is security. For Buhari, I am not sure that he can take this nation to the next level. He has ruled and fought corruption, which took much of his time as our leader and many people suffered. Take this instance into perspective, around 1983-85, Gen Buhari closed down most canteens in our universities just because of corruption which marred the management of these canteens. The result of this act was that many suffered to buy things they would need. In fact, oga Jona doing his Ph.D. then, had to stand in line throughout the night to buy just 2 tins of milk. Hope this is not the kind of government you want from Buhari?

Ngwakwe:

You are the toddler here who thought Nigeria is synonymous with Core Northern Nigeria.
May be it was massive across Northern Nigeria at the expense of equitable national distribution.
Buhari is an ethno-religious champion and yet he wasn't able to reduce the number of Almajiris being recruited to the streets on yearly basis.
What a pity.

atlwireles:
Afenifere Petitions About PTF Projects & Marginalisation of Yorubas.

**Buhari allocated only 24% of the roads to the Southern, and the North has 76%.
**health clinics, the South West has zero allocation, the North-100%.
**old Kano and Lagos used to have the same number of divisions. Today Lagos is still the same, with 20 LGAs, while Kano has 2 states and 77 LGAs.

The Abacha regime created a parallel government through the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) headed by Major General Muhammed Buhari. Nothing else typifies the marginalization of the Yoruba than the lopsidedness of the projects carried out by the PTF. Figures from PTF Situation Reports (Vol. 2 Dec. 98) show that the PTF carried on as if there was no South West.

Of all the roads rehabilitated by the PTF, only 1984.5 kilometres of roads representing 10.84 per cent were carried out in the South West; from where the bulk of the PTF revenue came since the zone consumes over 60 per cent of refined petroleum products.

All the Southern States had 4,440.43 kms or 24 per cent of road rehabilitation as against 13,870.47 kms or 76 per cent in the Northern States zone three comprising the North-West States of Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara had a lion share of 5020 kms or 27.42 per cent because the Fund’s Chairman, Buhari and the military dictator Sani Abacha were from there; zone four comprising the North-East States of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe picked 23.48 per cent.
This is the zone where Salihijo Ahmed, the late Chief Executive of Afri-Project Consortium APC, the sole consultants that supervised all PTF projects came from.

Figures in other sectors were more scandalous. For instance, under the National Health and Educational Rehabilitation Programme (NHERP), the South West had zero allocation in the tertiary programme, while the North picked 100 per cent.
In the vocational programme, the South West had zero while the North had 97 per cent. In the primary area, the South-West had zero against 88 per cent for the North and in the secondary area, it was zero for the South-West and 86 per cent for the North.

The health sector is similar. For the Teaching Hospitals, the South-West had zero while the North had 62 per cent. For the Specialist Hospitals, it was zero for the South-West and 71 per cent for the North; in General/State Hospitals the Yoruba had nothing while the North had 56 per cent for health clinics, it was zero for the South-West against the North’s 100 per cent.

Under the food supply summary, the Southwest had 7.26 per cent compared with 83 per cent for the North, Buhari’s zone having 60.54 per cent to itself.

Demographic Manipulation: The Northern wielders of power have skewed all demographic indicators to marginalise the Yoruba and confer undue advantage on the North.

For instance, while the old Kano and Lagos used to have the same number of divisions, various demographic manipulations over the years have brought about absurd disparities between the two states.

While the old Lagos remains a state with 20 local governments, the old Kano has become two states-Kano and Jigawa with 77 local governments. These are some of the indices used for revenue sharing. - submission of Afenifere to the Human Rights Violations and Investigation Commission.

Recent finding was that most of the contract money was collected by some big-wigs and the contracts were never executed. Majority of the funds were wasted in Consultants, that were relatively doing nothing. Today, there are no trace of any of these projects that trillions were allocated to.