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istory is harsh, because it hides nothing
from honest and discerning people. For
those who are dancing at the prospect of
voting in Muhammadu Buhari, please consider the
following historical facts. Interpret them however
you choose, but think about them deeply:
Kennedy Emetulu
(1) Think of the kind of nation the colonial masters
bequeathed to us before leaving. They instituted
different political, social and legal system in the
North and South, but still ran the country as one
and left us without any attempt at righting the
wrongs they’ve instituted.
(2) Think of the pogroms in the North against the
Igbo and Southerners. What were the reasons for
this? There was no reason more than that the
Igbo and Southerners were seen as taking over
the economy and geographical space of the
Northerner in a supposed one, free Nigeria.
(3) Think of the First Republic and the issues that
led to its demise. These issues ranged from the
obvious injustices perpetrated at the centre by a
majoritarian oligarchy, which then led to electoral
violence in the West and national distrust in the
Niger-Delta.
(4) Think of beginning of military intervention in
politics and the cost to the nation:
(a) The First Coup of January 1966 and the real
motivation of the chaps behind it.
(b) The coming of Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-
Ironsi and the counter-coup that saw his death
and the mass killing of Igbo officers within the
army, including the pogrom that followed up
North.
(c) The Civil War and the cost in human and
material resources to the nation. Was it
necessary? Why the waste? What have we learnt?
Think of the Asaba and Owerri massacres (Buhari
was part of the latter)? Were they necessary? What
have we learnt from that war?
(5) Think of the whole nine years of General
Yakubu Gowon, the seven months of General
Murtala Muhammed, the four years of Shehu
Shagari. The almost two years of Buhari, the eight
years of General Ibrahim Babangida, the five years
of General Sani Abacha, the one year of
Abdulsalami Abubakar and the two years of
Umaru Yar’Adua. For almost 40 years of the 54
that we have had flag independence, the North has
ruled the nation, but what did their leadership do
for Nigeria? Why is the Northern elite now hell-
bent on taking back power at the top? How long
have they been out of it that they now want it
back? What did they do with it for their people
when they had it?
(6) Think about June 12 and the murder of MKO
Abiola. Imagine the opportunity our country had
at that juncture in our history and who truncated
it. Who are the beneficiaries of the truncation
of June 12, but Buhari and the industrial-military
complex that backs him now as members of the
APC?
(7) For the Yoruba, think about the power you
have now and how to use it responsibly. When
Obafemi Awolowo had it, he used it responsibly
and this nation is grateful for it. For those who are
hailing Bola Tinubu as some kind of political
genius, do they think Tinubu is safe under a
Buhari presidency as he has been under
Jonathan? Do they not see how easy it would be
for Buhari to pluck out Tinubu in a power tussle
over control of the APC under the guise of fighting
corruption? Do they think there is anything a Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo can do in the
circumstances? What would be the fate of the
Yoruba at that point?
( Think about the National Question and what
this false change would mean for the Southern
minorities and the nation. Since the Willink
Commission of 1958, their troubles have been in
the front burner of national discussion and we
have shouted ourselves hoarse for a Sovereign
National Conference (SNC). Whether we want to
believe it or not, Jonathan’s presidency sort of
doused the raging fire, so what would his ouster
do? Think about the Orkar Coup of 1992 and what
motivated those young men now lost to the firing
squad.
(9) For the Yoruba, think about those who today
mostly populate the highest and middle level
echelon of the oil industry. They are not Niger-
Deltans; they are young Yoruba professionals and
Tinubu who worked with Mobil knows this. Are
you prepared to sacrifice them and their career to
install a Buhari who, from his actions and
utterances, look bent on dipping the Koran in the
sea in the form of establishing Sharia all over
Nigeria? Does anyone think the South-South will
sit down and share the oil wealth with a nation of
the sort Buhari has in mind? Does anyone really
think Buhari has the temperament to hold a
complex Nigeria together?
(10) To the Northerners, think about what we are
already seeing about Buhari on the campaign trail.
Does he look like a healthy person? His gaunt,
austere look is not just about his stature. The
man is old and ill and this campaign will take a
lot from him. If, God forbid, he does not survive
this campaign or his first term where would that
put this country? Does anyone think that the
power-mongers of the North will simply stand by
and let the Vice President take over
constitutionally? Are we prepared to go through
the Yar’Adiua experience again, especially this
time when they are likely to be more desperate?
What would it mean for those in the North who
think it’s their turn to take over, rather than wait
till 2019 when they are likely to have a more
vibrant candidate with real national appeal
contesting for the presidency and with a chance
to win and govern in peace?

(11) Think of Buhari as the head of state and how
he ran the nation. The day he was overthrown, I
was at the parade ground at the Orientation Camp
in Toro, Bauchi where I was serving my NYSC. I
remember that the chap who was our
Commandant was a young Captain said to be a
cousin to Brigadier Joshua Dongoyaro who
announced the overthrow. His second-in-
command was then Lieutenant Ugo Buzugbe who
is today a Major General. Once word reached us
of the overthrow, the whole camp went agog with
jubilation! On the day, I was delegated by my
friends to go to Jos to buy some things for a
party we were planning. I got there and the whole
city was jubilating! We heard of spontaneous
jubilation all over the country. Today, some
brilliant, but devious spin-doctors are painting
Buhari as a great leader who is now making us
feel nostalgia for his time! Only fools who would
want to be treated like animals and butchered
without reason would look at Buhari and say he is
the change we need. Yes, we might need change,
but not Buhari! We are not a cursed people! We
should never go back to our national vomit!
(12) Think about his manifesto and what he offers.
Is there anything there that he can do better than
Jonathan? He talks about fighting corruption, but
Buhari is a corrupt man being shielded by spin-
doctors! The facts of his corruption are there!
How can anyone believe the lies about his
poverty? What poor man contests every
presidential election since 2003 in such a
grandiose manner? Can’t we see the corrupt
people he consorts with and those interested in
sending him to Aso Rock? Does that add up?
(13) Think about this fellow who has been a
recurrent name in Nigerian politics since his
overthrow by his military colleagues, but who
cannot tell us one good cause he has put his
name or his money in. Where are the charities he
supports? What business is he involved in? What
has he been doing with almost N30 million he
receives monthly as gratuity? How has he
improved himself since leaving office? Why can
he not just tender his First School Leaving
Certificate, rather than lying and getting others to
lie for him? How many scholarships has he
awarded, even as we know that his daughter lives
the high life in a UK university where she pays
more than £16,000 as school fees? How many
university chairs has he endowed? How many
professional bodies does he support? How many
international missions has he helped with? All we
have seen him do since is go to BBC Hausa, say
some inciting and divisive things and when called
out, he proclaims innocence and accuses
journalists of misinterpreting him.
(14) Think about his support for Boko Haram and
the group nominating him as their representative
in negotiation with the Federal Government. Why
did he cowardly refuse to be part of the
negotiation when he’s spent the whole time
attacking the Nigerian Army and the Federal
Government over Boko Haram? Does anyone think
the present Nigerian Army would accept this type
of untrustworthy and divisive figure as
Commander-in-Chief? After all, following the
annulment of the June 12 election, one of the
reasons Babangida said they couldn’t hand over
to MKO Abiola was because he wouldn’t have
been accepted as Commander-in-Chief. Buhari
was one of the beneficiaries of that annulment. I
can’t see him being a good Commander-in-Chief.
As bad as it sounds, he will do the same mistakes
he did the first time and worse and Nigerians
would be reduced to jubilating again when a coup
topples him. Egypt after the electoral victory of the
Muslim Brotherhood comes to mind. And that
would be the least terrible of all choices we can
get.
(15) Think of Buhari who has no idea of modern
governance. Only dishonest people will believe
otherwise. Listen to him and see how vacuous he
is. No matter how they try to hide his illiteracy,
it’s glaring. He has now joined Twitter, because of
election, but what does he really know about
modern communication? His best phrase is “I will
fight….” No, governance is not about fighting; it’s
about governing. I don’t want to hear people tell
me he would surround himself with the best
brains, because anyone without a brain ruling
Nigeria will not know the best brains and even
when they are there, a man with the ignorant
stubbornness of Buhari will not listen to them or
know how to use them.
(16) Think of the world we live in and the kind of
leadership driving developments in other lands.
Think of us in 2015 celebrating a Buhari as our
President! The country of Tafawa Balewa, Nnamdi
Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo celebrating a
Buhari in 2015? Some may say Jonathan is not
better, but that would be unfair. Jonathan is far
better, even if he is not the best we can offer as a
nation. Forget the propaganda that he has not
done anything, he has. His administration has
achieved a lot and those who are honest know
this. Indeed, his administration has achieved
more for the North than any Northern leader in
our history. His problem is that he does not have
good marketers. Whatever minuses we think
Jonathan has, Buhari will triple them.
(17) Think of the Boko Haram menace and
understand that it is not a question of Jonathan
failing on national security, but a huge sabotage
against our nation by elements looking to benefit
from his ouster. One of the worst things done to
our nation by that buffoon, Olusegun Obasanjo
was the emasculation of our armed forces. He did
it when he came into power in 1999 under the
pretext that he was professionalizing the army
and stopping them from planning coups. His
Ministers of Defence, Theophilus Danjuma and
Rabiu Kwankwaso oversaw the destruction of the
army, even as massive money was voted in the
defence budget. Of course, we had no threat. By
the time that threat came in the form of Boko
Haram, Yar’Adua dealt with it with overwhelming
force. But that was the problem. Yar’Adua ordered
the killing of Boko Haram activists extra-judicially,
but that only earned them international
recognition from Global Jihad. With external
money and training, they were transformed and
under Jonathan, they became the Nigerian
franchise of Global Jihad. Then in collaboration
with Northern power-mongers they began a
process of blackmailing Jonathan. He asked for
negotiation, they would not budge; he promised
them amnesty, they would not budge. They
simply continue to kill defenseless citizens at will,
because they know that will undermine Jonathan
and the state. They support this with propaganda,
inflating number of casualties and working with
their political partners to undermine the state and
state response at all levels. Meanwhile, when the
nation had the OPC problem in the West, Yoruba
leaders went out there to sort it out. When we had
problems with Bakassi Boys in the East, Igbo
leaders rose to the challenge and when we had
the militancy in the Niger-Delta, South-South
leaders, including Goodluck Jonathan went into
the creeks to talk the boys into disarming. Now,
what have the Northern leaders done about Boko
Haram since it started its rampage? Some wring
their hands helplessly, while others like Buhari
make political capital out of it! Of course, all Boko
Haram wants now is a Northern president who
would establish Sharia all over Nigeria and Buhari
will give them that. But what that means is that
they used the power of their guns to impose on
us a national leadership that would take us back
to the Middle Ages. I have no scruples with
Buhari and his kith and kin that want criminal
Sharia, but they cannot impose it on the rest of
the nation above our Constitution. I will not vote
for my own death! I will not vote for my people’s
death! I will not vote to take Nigeria through the
darkness that I know a Buhari presidency
represents!
(18) Think about the fact that we lost more people
to communal, ethnic and sectarian violence under
Obasanjo, including deaths by political
assassinations, yet everyone is conveniently
forgetting this fact and proclaiming Jonathan a
weakling. Would we prefer that Jonathan and the
military give communities the Odi and Zaki Biam
treatment in the name of fighting Boko Haram?
(19) Think about the National Youth Service Corps
members and the almost 1000 people that lost
their lives up North after the last presidential
election simply because Buhari did not win. Did
Buhari’s reaction at the time show him as a
statesman? Did it show him as someone who
cares for the life of Southerners? Is that not the
same man who has promised that dogs and
baboons would be soaked in blood if the election
is rigged this time, which in fact is a code word
for massive violence if he loses?
(20) Think Nigerians! Those of you North and
South who love this country and who know what
we have sacrificed to get here should think of the
future. It’s okay to think it’s great removing an
incumbent, but think what will replace that
incumbent. It’s okay to preach change, but please
interrogate that change. Is it really the change we
need or a pretence to change that would impose
a worse future on us? If the potential for trouble
in that new future is worse than the present, stick
to what you know. The devil you know is always
better than the angel that you don’t know! Those
who say if Buhari fails, we will vote him out in
four years should remember that we might not
have that luxury, because there has to be a living,
viable nation before we can talk elections. A word
is enough for the patriot!

I always thought sahara reporters was pro APC ?

@ aholiab
Nice but can you post the link?

Good analysis! BRB

Say NO to buhari!!I dnt do saharareporters though... GEJ till 2019!!!

Before Voting Buhari: Twenty Things History
Teaches US By Kennedy Emetulu
saharareporters.com

Deep!

Before Voting Buhari: Twenty Things History
Teaches US By Kennedy Emetulu
saharareporters.com

@Sleekp that what my hands could grab.
@temitemi1 i appreciate your vivacity but the reason for scooping information from friendly and fiendish sources is to effectively validate ones stance

aholiab:

Before Voting Buhari: Twenty Things History
Teaches US By Kennedy Emetulu
saharareporters.com

This is not a link

thus Kennedy guy is a fraud who succeeds in twisting history to suit his needs as a paid Jonathanian
unfortunately he is better than FFK and Femi Aribasaila

In summary,
Buhari will not and cannot rule Nigeria. Period

eph12:

This is not a link

dude apologies . . .working on it

adaweezy:
thus Kennedy guy is a fraud who succeeds in twisting history to suit his needs as a paid Jonathanian
unfortunately he is better than FFK and Femi Aribasaila

dude they might paint different versions of history based on biases but it doesn't deny that they expose history for our informed decisions. they and their opposing script-lords

adaweezy:
thus Kennedy guy is a fraud who succeeds in twisting history to suit his needs as a paid Jonathanian
unfortunately he is better than FFK and Femi Aribasaila

Can you pls tell us what was twisted there

Nctrice:
to be frank these are words from a true witness.

When we hear change, two things are involved!
Change is either positive or negative! That's they promise you change does not necessarily mean that it's gonna be a positive change!

may your scrotum not fail in in times of legitimate need for that comment

OP, author, Sahara ........... thank u for your opinion & efforts, But if Nigeria is to be saved from further DESTRUCTION ..........


[size=18pt]Sai BUHARI[/size]

as clear as crystal

Too long... tired already.

..

He should make them 1000,000 bad reasons not to vote buhari, I'm still going to vote him.
Infact, even if buhari has made it known to me that he would kill me when he becomes the president, I'm still going to vote him.
sai Buhari!

No to bigotry



Sai buhari

;DWhat is buhari?

Make una no vex ooo na question,
Abi na new condom? ;DWhat is buhari?

Make una no vex ooo na question,
Abi na new condom?

aholiab:
I always thought sahara reporters was pro APC ?

help me tell them.if any report favour PDP dey embrace it .if it is not in dr favour they will say sahara reporters r pro APC

Caseless:
He should make them 1000,000 bad reasons not to vote buhari, I'm still going to vote him.
Infact, even if buhari has made it known to me that he would kill me when he becomes the president, I'm still going to vote him.
sai Buhari!

I swear to God, I saw him in my dream last night. Took a selfie with him!! Twas such a glorious moment.

Was saying I'm gonna upload the picture here only to wake up and saw it was but a dream!!

Buhari's vote from me and all my friends (to God who made me. Not a single friend of mine supports the man) are already signed, sealed and awaiting delivery. The more they attack him in person, the stronger our resolve to stand by him. Only a good man could generate that much hate!! Lol. Even Hitler was loved by almost all Germans. Lol.

These guys are just wasting their time.

Dbboy:


Can you pls tell us what was twisted there

Read his long read on Jonathanians and buharist, then you would understand what I mean. he carefully solicits the part of history he needs and tosses away other relevant information.
look at his number 18 closely as he compares GEJ and OBJ....
Number 14 point also why didn't he mention soyinka who was nominated too...the bomb attack on Buhari was carefully omitted....
Check out his 13th point, as he does not elucidate much on Buhari's daughter failing to mention the role of her mother in educating her....
Kennedy Emetulu will only succeed in dividing Nigeria across ethnic and religious lines

omenka:
I swear to God, I saw him in my dream last night. Took a selfie with him!! Twas such a glorious moment.

Was saying I'm gonna upload the picture here only to wake up and saw it was but a dream!!

Buhari's vote from me and all my friends (to God who made me. Not a single friend of mine supports the man) are already signed, sealed and awaiting delivery. The more they attack him in person, the stronger our resolve to stand by him. Only a good man could generate that much hate!! Lol. Even Hitler was loved by almost all Germans. Lol.

These guys are just wasting their time.

the simple interpretation to ur dream is that, u are going to be a part of the face/figure of change in Nigeria- you are on the right side. Something big is about to happen in ur life,bro.
Na sweet dream oo

omenka:
I swear to God, I saw him in my dream last night. Took a selfie with him!! Twas such a glorious moment.

Was saying I'm gonna upload the picture here only to wake up and saw it was but a dream!!

Buhari's vote from me and all my friends (to God who made me. Not a single friend of mine supports the man) are already signed, sealed and awaiting delivery. The more they attack him in person, the stronger our resolve to stand by him. Only a good man could generate that much hate!! Lol. Even Hitler was loved by almost all Germans. Lol.
These guys are just wasting their time.

Itz good to dream