fkaz:


If his true colour is to deal with corrupt politician, let him unleash it on them.

akinlex:
this will surely make fp

Seun:

So he still believes it is ok for the military to overthrow a democratic government if the democratic government is corrupt. Incidentally, many people believe that the current government is also corrupt. If the General's view is right, then a military coup in 2015 is justified...

Do you agree? (I strongly disagree because dictatorship is a greater evil than corruption. You can fight corruption within democracy)

Seun:

He has not accepted that he made a mistake. If you don't admit your mistakes and correct them, you will keep making them.


A cynical person would say that the reason he is doing all this is because he no longer has the military capability to take power by force.

Look, I have decided that it may not be bad to have change, but we need to understand the new man before giving him dominion over us.

philips70:


Seun, but why not see this man in his uprightness to judge his personality? Do you know it would have made sense to him if he says he was not directly among the coup planners but was brought in to give it credence because of his antecedents? Please dig up all available facts about that 31st Dec 1983 coup and digest them very well. Some of us where wise then and it is an assailable fact Buhari did not participate in that coup. He was not even part of the plan. But for him to continue to own up shows some level of integrity on his part. Secondly, I watched the session and he continued saying the decision to overthrow the Shagari regime was very much in order as at that time. When asked about now he took them back again. Standing by your words is a hallmark of integrity and you know military men of yore are well known for that. Olokulade and Badeh them don destroy our military by telling bare faced lies.

LouisVanGaal:
Oga seun, what's the usefulness of democracy, when its constantly abused...of what purpose is it

Tomoarika:
There are times when one makes difficult decisions in the interest of the greater good.

I personally do not ascribe to this "the worst democracy is better than the best military Govt".
What is bad is bad, there's no point sugar-coating it!
Col Gamel Nasser is considered as one of the best leaders of Egypt and he came into power through a military coup, same for Jerry Rawlings in Ghana.

We are lucky to be in an era where democracy is the flavour of the month unlike then which was the time of revolutions (both civilian and military).

Corruption was widespread during the 2nd Republic and the same cannot be said for the very strict Military Govt that replaced it.

quid:
Corruption does not justify military action. Especially when the military itself becomes an incarnation of corruption.

Kolade354:
No comment..................I have decided to follow buhari,to follow osibanjo,to follow APC,to be loyal,honest and patriotic...................I told seun earlier get ready for broom revolution.

Fortifive:
This thread looks like Nairaland of 2007 when commentators were sane and talked with maturity.

OgologoDimkpa:
Among all of them shouting Change in APC, tell me who is not corrupt
Tinubu is corruption personified as he has bought over Lagos.

Buhari once told us that he has just I million naira in his bank account whereas his c
hildren are gallivanting all over Europe.

I am not just comfortable with Buhari's quest to grab power at al cost.
He has an ulterior motive which no other person knows.

We'll resist him with eveything we have.
He'll never smell ASo Rock , mark my word

Seun:
From his recent Channels TV Interview:

Are you sorry for bringing to an end the Shagari government?

GMB: No, I'm not sorry, because I mentioned why we did it, and we proved our case.

That's a democratic process that could have extended.

GMB: So when you are a democracy you are entitled to steal your treasury dry, and put your people into pauperized positions, and destroy institutions, and destroy infrastructure?

So you blame Shagari for that coup?

GMB: Don't personalize. I'll blame the second republic...

For that?

GMB: For that. And when we came out we told the nation why and we conducted enquiries, documentary ones, not just hearsay.

Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_487PhkxUQ (start at 5:37)

So he still believes it is ok for the military to overthrow a democratic government if the democratic government is corrupt. Incidentally, many people believe that the current government is also corrupt. If the General's view is right, then a military coup in 2015 is justified...

Do you agree? (I strongly disagree because dictatorship is a greater evil than corruption. You can fight corruption within democracy)

My brother, please why is this not on front page yet? Please what are you waiting for?

philips70:


[[s]b]Seun, but why not see this man in his uprightness to judge his personality? Do you know it would have made sense to him if he says he was not directly among the coup planners but was brought in to give it credence because of his antecedents? Please dig up all available facts about that 31st Dec 1983 coup and digest them very well. Some of us where wise then and it is an assailable fact Buhari did not participate in that coup. He was not even part of the plan. But for him to continue to own up shows some level of integrity on his part. Secondly, I watched the session and he continued saying the decision to overthrow the Shagari regime was very much in order as at that time. When asked about now, he took them back again. Standing by your words is a hallmark of integrity and you know military men of yore are well known for that. Olokulade and Badeh them don destroy our military by telling bare faced lies.[/b] [/s]

coolhamid:
Mr seun, You have been so biased recently. Within last few weeks, you and your mods brought lots of anti- buhari threads to front page.
You realized that the propaganda set out towards GMB is not yeilding any result , so you decided to embrace the candidacy of GMB.

GMB and his team did what they have to do in 1983 to save the entire nation from the hands of umaru dikko and co...

I support the coup 100 percent

peckhamboi:
Seun, why are you bringing this irrelevant issue up at this time.

The coup happened over 30 years ago and I remember vividly there were wild jubiliation all over the country after the coup.

I personally was happy that there was a coup at that point in time because the level of looting was the same as Jonathan's administration.

Alezy:
Why are you saying this? Do u kw hw far this country would be in democracy if he had allowed that gov?