Mr Peter Obi, the immediate past governor of Anambra State, is a honorary adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan. Obi shares his perspective on the 2015 polls in this interview.
Do you agree that Buhari has the capacity to stop Boko Haram if elected?
Gen. Buhari, as a respected, retired general and as an elder statesman, does not need an invitation, an appointment or an elective office to intervene on any national issue, especially issues of national security like the one facing the country at the moment. Elder statesmen all over the world do not wait to be invited before they step forward on matters of grave concern to their fatherland.
President Jonathan is running round sleeplessly and working with security agencies, in addition to forging bilateral ties to solve these problems. He will certainly be very glad to receive any suggestions from Buhari and I can assure you that Nigerians will be glad if he helps solve the problem as an elder statesman. He has said that he will summon a meeting of serving and retired generals to help solve the problem if elected, but he does not need to be elected to do so.
But some people are saying that he can deal with Boko Haram, the way he dealt with the Maitatsine unrest decades ago.

I have read in some places where the APC said that because Buhari stopped Maitaitsine in the 80s, he will also stop Boko today. I disagree entirely with this claim, because the stable global environment of the 80s cannot be compared with the volatile and terror-enveloped global environment of today. The socio-religious realities that threw up the Maitaisine group are different from the realities that threw up Boko Haram.
In the 80s, most countries were stable, but today the global instability, cutting across nations like Iraq, Syria and the Middle East, has created a labyrinth of terror. This is in addition to our African neighbours, , like Libya, Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Tunisia and others, which are all facing various forms of instability and terrorist activities. The level of sophistication in technology and military hardware is also totally different today. No one would have ever imagined in the 80s that terrorists would go into the US and bomb the World Trade Centre, or attack the Pentagon. But we all saw it happen.
These are realities that need to shape our understanding of the world of today. What is happening has a global coloration, because the ISIS flag is the flag you see with Alshaba in Somalia and Boko Haram in Nigeria. You can now see why we cannot compare yesterday with what we are seeing today. Who would have thought that Nigerians would turn into suicide bombers?

From: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/nigeria-not-need-72-yr-old-grandfather-president-peter-obi/?

We obviosly don't need a clueless 57 year old ex lecturer too.

Our hands are tied. the devil i know or the angel i don't?

Obi has a profitable racket going in anambra. With the state's money conveniently lodged in his bank and used to run that bank , it is obvious that he wouldn't let go easily.

All we are saying give us young and educated man.
Not old skool & semi illiterate who want to stabilize world oil prices.

We can't afford general to take us back to where we are coming from... Forward ever, backward never!! GEJ till 2019!!!

I wonder what that old cargo forgot in that Aso rock that he wants to go back and carry. Let him just go and look for a place and die a peaceful death.

Mugabe is around 88, and the way he's handling the affair of Zimbabwe ur mumu sef and the graciously inept GEJ combined can't come close.

This is one of d most awesome posts ever on this forum

olusolaj:
All we are saying give us young and educated man.
Not old skool & semi illiterate who want to stabilize world oil prices.

Mr peter Obi, pls I want u to know that the grandson we elected in 2011 in the person of GEJ has failed us completely with nothing left to talk about him again. we need grandfather pls.

Thats a big insult upon injury

size40:
Mr peter Obi, pls I want u to know that the grandson we elected in 2011 in the person of GEJ has failed us completely with nothing left to talk about him again. we need grandfather pls.

So you are saying that GEJ did nothing for Nigeria in 5 years. How many University and schools did Buhari build. ZERO because he reintroduced school fees and closed down many. Buhari has done nothing for Nigeria since 2003 that he has been running, why would he start now? You people have a mental problem, to want a man that can't even keep his thoughts together because of onset Dementia. You want a President that said he can stabilize the oil market, that said blood will soak Nigerians What are you basing GEJ 5 years on. Buhari is not the right person! He that toppled a Democratic government and also grandfather the corruption in the Oil Ministry. It is just now that Allison went in they started respecting Nigeria and even made us head of OPEC. You guys are on the same level as Buhari's thinking I don't blame you.

Well said. The man should go and rest biko

What is Peter Obi?