JANUARY 5, 2015 BY ENIOLA AKINKUOTU
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Maj-Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (retd.)
The All Progressive Grand Alliance says it
cannot throw its weight behind President
Goodluck Jonathan as it is very likely that the
candidate of the All progressives Congress,
Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will
emerge the winner of the presidential election
next month.
The Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of
APGA, Mr. Campbell Umeh-Nzekwe, who is also
a special adviser to the national chairman of
the party, said this during an interview with
our correspondent, on Sunday.
Umeh-Nzekwe said Jonathan’s problem was
compounded by the fact that the motion to
adopt him as the consensus candidate of the
Igbo for the 2015 presidential election failed
at the Ime-Obi (inner caucus) meeting of the
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Saturday, in Enugu.
He added that the sermon of renowned Enugu-
based Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka,
that Jonathan had failed and should step down
seemed to have sent shockwaves across the
South-East.
He said the party was sure that Jonathan would
not win votes in the North.
He said, “The game has changed. As it is,
Jonathan has no chance of winning. Buhari
seems to have taken over. The PDP has
collapsed in the North if you care to know. All
those who are running to Aso Rock and making
promises to the President are just deceiving
him.”
When asked if APGA would be supporting
Buhari next month, Umeh-Nzekwe said he
could not say for sure.
He said, “Jonathan is a sitting President with
incumbency factor in his favour but Buhari
has the masses and a cult following in the
North. In 2011, Buhari won 12 million votes in
the North with his rag-tag party, the Congress
for Progressive Change, without a single
governor or senator to campaign for him.
“Today, his party, the APC, has 14 governors,
43 senators and 176 Reps as well as 625 House
of Assembly members. Also, the APC has
dominant control of the North-West with a
total number of 18.4 million voters and North-
East with 10.2 million while South-West has
13.4 million voters
“ The PDP has dominant control of the North-
Central and Abuja with 10.4 million voters
while the South-South has 8.5 million and
South-East has 7.2 million votes.
“However, no zone has achieved 50 per cent of
votes cast but northern voters are more
committed and trustworthy than those in the
South.
“Also, look at Jonathan’s campaign team. He
has Col. Ahmadu Ali (retd.) as his Director
General and Peter Obi as the deputy while
Buhari has Governor Rotimi Amaechi and
Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora as director
general and deputy respectively. It is time for
Ndi Igbo to review their strategy".

http://www.punchng.com/politics/apga-favours-buhari-to-emerge-as-president/

Hmmm.........the plot thickens the more

Hahahahahaha. Dont wanna believe this....Though APUGA are like Allen Junction sluts..Money for hand, back for ground AGIP.(Any Government in Power)

1. Yet another confirmation that GEJ's re-election DREAM is rapidly EVAPORATING into thin, and things are taking new turns for the WORST for PDP as a party. Imagine a party that is based in the region GEJ himself called the 'pillar of his support' now coming out so openly to campaign against him in this manner. Compare this with the excited, whole-hearted and unalloyed support and genuine feeling of regional and brotherly solidarity the leaders of this same APGA showed for candidacy of GEJ in 2011.

2. Only yesterday, the pan-Igbo cultural organization, Ohaneze, came out equally openly to say that it could not declare its support for GEJ, explaining that it does not favour any particular candidate. Try to compare this with the near unanimous support GEJ got from all the prominent Igbo leaders in 2011.

3. Another clear sign that GEJ's re-election dream is hitting the rocks emerged from Kaduna a few days a go, when his re-election campaign vehicles that were meant to be driven to Kano got stuck in Kaduna for days, because no northern driver wanted to have anything to do with them. Compare this with 2011, when Kwankwaso, late Yakuwa, Sule Lamido, Wamako, Nyako and other northern governors each provided hundreds of vehicles, drivers and active campaigners for the election of the clueless, who turns out to be such a big disappointment for all.

4. There is also the New Year message of Rev Father Mbaka of Enugu; if there are some DUMB supporters of GEJ who still think the people of SE would vote for GEJ as overwhelmingly as they did in the 2011, then such dumb people should just watch the Enugu priest's video, listen to his clear and poignant message and, more importantly, see the cheering of the crowd. Again, compare and contrast that atmosphere in a key SE state with what it was in 2011.

5. As the APGA spokesperson rightly and candidly told GEJ, and anybody who cares to listen, PDP is doomed in the north (and I will add SW), but hungry northern (and SW) politicians would continue to deceive him with a false picture to the contrary, as they scramble for their personal share from those billions set aside for his re-election gamble.

I have never seen as much shame meted out to a President.

Nobody wants to associate with a failure and Jonathan is now like Jezebel who everybody is running away from.

Buhari's bell is ringing louder day by day and everybody can see the writing on the wall except paid hacks deceiving him like Mogidi, temitemi, Firefire who are just collecting his maga money.

Somebody pls tell him to lister to Father Mbaka's advice and he should honourably resign and not face the humiliating defeat that awaits him next month.

Honestly The game is not easy for gej, well let the best candidate win

D igbos won't fall jonathan dat i know for sure

ELECT WISELY



MORE ON BUHARI AND CORRUPTION
The Younger Generations, be wise, ask your fathers about their sufferings in the days of Buhari




1. Great Maltreating Days of Bonafide Nigerians:

Read confession: ON Friday, 23rd August, 1985, the military government of Major-General Mohammadu Buhari decided to place me under arrest. My crime was that I wrote, among others, an article entitled:
“Counter-trading Nigeria's Future” in the National Concord, exposing the government's scam of diverting public funds into private coffers through barter-trade with Brazil.
A man by the name of Benson Norman was sent from the State Security Services (SSS) to my office to get me. Not finding me, he left a note that I must present myself unfailingly at the SSS office at 15 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi Lagos the next Monday morning. However, on Sunday, 25th August, 1985, one Lateef Aminu came first thing in the morning to my house to inform me that the government of Buhari/Idiagbon had been overthrown by Ibrahim Babangida. For this reason, I am fond of telling people that God brought about a change of government in Nigeria just because of me.

2. COUP PLOTTER AND ZERO INTERGRITY
Under the Buhari/Idiagbon regime, once you ended up at 15 Awolowo Road, you may never be heard of again. Decree Number 2 of 1984 empowered His Vice Tunde Idiagbon to arrest and detain anybody indefinitely (without trial and without legal reprieve). After Buhari was overthrown, Mohammadu Gambo opened the prison doors of 15 Awolowo Road on public television, revealing people in various stages of UnCloth and malnutrition that had been kept in the dungeons without trial by Buhari's hound-dogs. As self-imposed Head of State, Buhari had no regard for human rights. Immediately he seized power, he announced that he would “tamper with” the press. Soon, the infamous Decree Number 4 was promulgated which made even the publication of the truth a punishable offence. Under this cover,

a. Buhari jailed innocent journalists, including Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabo.
b. He abolished civil liberties, promulgated retroactive decrees enabling him to kill Nigerians through jungle justice, proscribed civil society organizations and professional groups and exercised “absolute” power.

This same Buhari would now have us believe that he has gone through some metamorphosis and has become a democrat at old age?.
I am sure you will forgive me if people like me don't believe him. Buhari is not, has never been, and will never be, a democrat. Only in Nigeria would a man with his track record, who came to power through a military coup that illegally overthrew a democratic government, now be acclaimed as a democrat.

Refusal To Accept Civilian Rule: It is on record that Buhari's military regime is the only one in Nigeria's history that failed to promulgate a programme for return to civilian rule.

FACTS AND FICTIONS
So what exactly qualifies Buhari as a democrat
today?

--Nduka Irabor, Tunde Thompson and other Journalists cried when Buhari ordered their incaceration on reporting news he deemed bad for his image.
--Tai Solarin the Activist cried when Buhari sent him to jail for publicly opposing him.
--Fela Ransome Kuti, the Musician, cried when he was jailed by Buhari.
--Parents and friends of Barth Owoh, Ojuolape and others cried when, they were sent to early graves.
--Former Governor of Imo State, the late Sam Mbakwe cried at Buhari’s marginalization of his people when PTDF was unable to construct a single road in South West, South South and South East whereas, the same PTDF under Buhari regime constructed more than 98 roads in the Northern part of Nigeria.
--Ambrose Ali cried when Buhari locked him up for nothing.
--Michael Ajasin cried and even became blind thanks Buhari.
--Civil Servants cried when he retrenched 53,000 workers.
--Nigerians cried while queuing for their portions of scarce commodities like rice, sugar, salt, milk and toiletries.
--Students cried when he re- introduced payment of school fees.
--Our Economy cried when he increased external debts by $3bn in 1year.
--Lagosians are still crying from road traffic because He cancelled the Metro line Railway Project.
--Nigerians have cried for more than 17 years of military rule resulting from Buhari’s criminal regime.


What goes around, comes around. Tears never begin flow from Buhari’s eyes yet. All Nigerians need is credibility not tears

--The parents of the 11 copper members slain in Bauchi, during 2011 post-election violence, that erupted, following Buhari's post-election speech activities of boko haram commence and thousands of Nigerians are dying every day , also cried The
--N2.8 billion stolen by Buhari and trillion of naira that disappeared under him in PTF is fresh in our memories, we shall never forget and forgive him.

We have recycled leaders enough. Nigeria is a country with more than 160 million people why recycle leaders? Those angling to replace the now discredited lot are in every way, the same fingers of a leprous hand. They had never offered anything for us in the past except hatred and distrust among us. We need a new set of credible people as leaders not the old same people. They ruled the country in the past and brought policies that
ruined this country to this extent and wants to come back again, never. We are many in Nigeria, let's try another set.

3. HIS ROTTEN PAST AND CORRUPTION:
Buhari's reputation as an anti-corruption crusader is also a myth. As head of state, he did not make any effort in Nigerian corruption. All we got was a
cosmetic “war against indiscipline.” The counter- trade scam happened under his watch. Rather than deal with it, he sent his hound-dogs after
nonentities from the South who dared to expose his rule and left the Northern brothers who praised him.

--The Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) that Buhari headed under Abacha was also a citadel of corruption. He did not only applied Nepotism to the resources to develope only the North, his cronies and those who worked under him enriched themself handsomely.


Try as he might again and again, Nigerians don't want Buhari Mohammed and he can never be President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


4. SECTARIANISM:
I need not stress that he is known for being a regional, sectional politician. Such politicians are practically impossible to package and market nationally in the ethnically-delicate Nigeria of today.

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir El'Rufai, one of those Northerners who
deserve to be serious contenders for the presidency of Nigeria, observed that Buhari remains
“perpetually unelectable” as a result of his “insensitivity to Nigeria's diversity and his
parochial focus.” This is an elegant way of saying that politically, Buhari has an uncanny
tendency to put his foot in his mouth. He talks before thinking of the political implications of his words.
He shoots from the hip.


The strength of Obasanjo, which enabled him to capture the presidency on two different occasions, was that he was perceived as a broadminded politician, not overly partial to his people in the South-West. As a matter of fact, in his first election, his people did not want him. The strength of
Goodluck Jonathan, which propelled him to win the presidency, was that he was able to string together a coalition that stretched both north and south of
the Niger. The weakness of Buhari is that he is totally unacceptable to people outside his region.


Buhari is a Northern regional champion.
As head of state in the 1980s, his government was unapologetically Northern. No attempt was made to balance the ticket at the top. It was the only regime
in Nigeria's history headed by two Northerners.


--When he seized power, Buhari put Shagari, the Northern head of state he overthrew, under house arrest. But then he jailed Alex Ekwueme, the Southern vice-president. You may well ask what makes Shagari less culpable for the misdeeds of the Second Republic than his number-two man.
The simple fact was that Buhari was Fulani as was Shagari; but Ekwueme was Igbo.


5. IMPOLITIC WORDS
At the height of the Sharia debate during the Obasanjo administration, Buhari declared that Muslims should vote only for fellow Muslims.
This was politically suicidal for a man seeking national office. He became an advocate for implementation of Sharia all over Nigeria.

--He protested to the Oyo State governor, in the context of a dispute between Fulani herdsmen and indigenous farmers in the state, that “your people are killing my people.” This turned out to be unfounded and perhaps the reverse.

--His threats during the campaign for the 2011 elections incited widespread violence in the North after he lost. His supporters went on a rampage; looting and killing;raping 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 and some 65,000 displaced.

Forgetting that a statement made in Hausa would readily be translated into English, Buhari later declared unapologetically in a BBC interview: “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.” These are the tokens of an irresponsible politician, whose ambitions for power supersede the national interest.

Who then are the dogs and baboons ? Are they his children or are they those of others?

With the Boko Haram insurgency in the north, Buhari played to the Northern gallery yet again, calling the Jonathan government “the biggest Boko Haram.” Wole Olaniyi was a fly in the wall at a meeting in Kano Government House designed to persuade PDP rebel 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 still saw this with Northern goggles, insinuating that the President is waging war on the North.


6. PRESIDENT OF THE NORTH
Without a doubt, Buhari has massive support in the North. Indeed, he is the most popular Northern politician in the North today. But that precisely remains his undoing at the centre. The more he has been identified as a Northern champion, the less attractive he has become as a national choice.

Even in the North, his support base is limited to the Muslim population. He does not appeal to Northern Christians. Then there is the added factor of the
opposition of his implacable opponents among the Northern elite. Men like Babangida and Atiku would rather die than allow Buhari get to Aso Rock.

One thing is certain, the South-South and the South-East will not vote for Buhari in 2015. Not only that; there are no buyers for Buhari's sectarian politics in the South-West.

No matter what Tinubu might be telling him, the people of the South-West will not vote for Buhari in 2015. We already had the template in 2011, when Buhari tried to sell himself, first by balancing his ticket with a Yoruba man; and then by making sure the Yoruba man is a Christian;a pastor no less. But it just did not wash. It will not work in 2015.
The worst thing that can happen to Northern presidential aspirations in 2015 is for Buhari to be on the APC ballot. That is a sure guarantee that the North will not be providing the next president. Buhari would be a shoo-in in an election for president of Northern Nigeria. But in an election encompassing the entire country, the best he can envisage is to be a kingmaker. He cannot be king. The nearest Buhari will get to Aso Rock in 2015 is by attending the Council of State meetings.

LogicPower:
1. Yet another confirmation that GEJ's re-election DREAM is rapidly EVAPORATING into thin, and things are taking new turns for the WORST for PDP as a party. Imagine a party that is based in the region GEJ himself called the 'pillar of his support' now coming out so openly to campaign against him in this manner. Compare this with the excited, whole-hearted and unalloyed support and genuine feeling of regional and brotherly solidarity the leaders of this same APGA showed for candidacy of GEJ in 2011.

2. Only yesterday, the pan-Igbo cultural organization, Ohaneze, came out equally openly to say that it could not declare its support for GEJ, explaining that it does not favour any particular candidate. Try to compare this with the near unanimous support GEJ got from all the prominent Igbo leaders in 2011.

3. Another clear sign that GEJ's re-election dream is hitting the rocks emerged from Kaduna a few days a go, when his re-election campaign vehicles that were meant to be driven to Kano got stuck in Kaduna for days, because no northern driver wanted to have anything to do with them. Compare this with 2011, when Kwankwaso, late Yakuwa, Sule Lamido, Wamako, Nyako and other northern governors each provided hundreds of vehicles, drivers and active campaigners for the election of the clueless, who turns out to be such a big disappointment for all.

4. There is also the New Year message of Rev Father Mbaka of Enugu; if there are some DUMB supporters of GEJ who still think the people of SE would vote for GEJ as overwhelmingly as they did in the 2011, then such dumb people should just watch the Enugu priest's video, listen to his clear and poignant message and, more importantly, see the cheering of the crowd. Again, compare and contrast that atmosphere in a key SE state with what it was in 2011.

5. As the APGA spokesperson rightly and candidly told GEJ, and anybody who cares to listen, PDP is doomed in the north (and I will add SW), but hungry northern (and SW) politicians would continue to deceive him with a false picture to the contrary, as they scramble for their personal share from those billions set aside for his re-election gamble.

Guy chop knuckle...d signs r so lucidly glaring-an atmosphere for miracles; d blind can c it!

Too much intake of alcohol is bad

shaqhead:

Guy chop knuckle...

? lol