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The Hypocrisy Of The People's General- Buhari. Part 1 by Nobody: 10:26am On Mar 14, 2015 |
Muhammadu Buhari's Declaration that Dictatorial Nigerian Military Head of State Sani Abacha Did Not Steal Public Funds One of the major points of criticism against Muhammadu Buhari, APC Presidential candidate for the 2015 Nigerian elections, is his declaration that late Nigerian military dictator Sani Abacha, in whose government Buhari had worked, did not loot public funds while in office. Sani Abacha became Nigeria's head of state through a coup, ruling from 1983 to 1985. Yet huge amounts of Abacha's loot were being recovered from different parts of the world, even as Buhari made that declaration which he has never revised. This development casts Buhari's integrity in a very doubtful light, particularly in relation to his much touted anti-corruption credentials and claims of ethnic bigotry directed against him. Buhari made this declaration on the 5th of June 2008, at the 10th year commemoration in Kano of the death of Sani Abacha, as reported, among other sources, by Ibrahim Shuaibu in his article "Abacha Never stole, Say Buhari, Babangida" in This Day news magazine on the 9th of June 2008, and republished in AllAfrica.com ( http://allafrica.com/ stories/200806090008.html ). The Return of Part of Abacha's Loot to Nigeria Shortly Before Buhari's Shocking Declaration This declaration by Muhammadu Buhari is particularly shocking because the week before he made that assertion that Abacha did not steal public funds, the Swiss government had returned to Nigeria some of Abacha's huge loot which he had siphoned from the Nigerian treasury, as reported by Adekunle Jimoh in his article of 2008-06-10, "Buhari, Abdulsalami, IBB under fire over Abacha loot" in The Nation, in the context of presenting the amazing declaration of Muhammadu Buhari : "Only last week, the government of Switzerland said it had returned all of the $505million (N59.05billion) looted funds stashed in its banks by the late Gen. Abacha. The repatriated money is part of an estimated $3billion of public funds believed to have been stored up by the late Head of State in banks in Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Britain and Luxembourg, besides Switzerland." ( http://www.thenationonlineng.net/archive2/ tblnews_Detail.php?id=52909 ) The Challenge of the AC to Muhammadu Buhari's Attempt to Distort History The gravity of Muhammadu Buhari's determination to distort reality by exonerating Abacha of the greatest theft of Nigeria's resources in the country's history, stealing half of the country's foreign reserve, is underscored by the response of the political party the Action Congress, through its publicity secretary Lai Muhammed, describing the statements of Buhari as "a disgusting case of revisionism" , particularly as Buhari had also declared "that past administrations should not be probed" a position the AC described as demonstrating " self-preservation rather than patriotism" warning that heeding such advice would thwart all efforts to enthrone the rule of law, due process, probity and good governance." In addition, the news report states : "The Lagos State chapter of the AC described the former Heads of State’s comment as "a desperate attempt by former despots to buy the reprieve of history for one of their ilk, together with whom they ruined Nigeria." ( http://www.thenationonlineng.net/archive2/ tblnews_Detail.php?id=52909 ) Pius Adesanmi's Analysis of Buhari's Pronouncement as an Effort to Whitewash His Own Sins Pius Adesanmi's analysis of this evil pronouncement by Buhari,a few months after the declaration by the former military man, in his essay of 24 June 2008, at the Nigeria Village Square " 'On Professors' Ibrahim Babangida, Muhammadu Buhari and Abdulsalami Abubakar" describes this effort at distorting history by Buhari as a determination to make sure history does not remember the evils Buhari perpetrated while in office ( http:// www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/pius- adesanmi/on-professors-ibrahim-babangida- muhammadu-buhari-and-abdulsalami- abubakar.html ). The Metamorphosis of the AC and Other Parties into the APC and Making Buhari its Presidential Candidate As of today, the AC, the Action Congress, the very party that described Buhari's behaviour in this incident as "a disgusting case of revisionism" and his declaration that past administrations should not be probed as demonstrating "self-preservation rather than patriotism" is one of the parties at the centre of the alliance that formed the APC, whose Presidential candidate Buhari is. What does this tell us about Buhari and his party the APC? Does it suggest we are dealing with figures of principle or with political opportunists, soldiers of fortune, seekers of power at any cost, even at the price of their souls? Buhari is presented by his party as a person who will clean up corruption in Nigeria. How can a man who denied the monumental corruption of his boss, his fellow soldier and Northern Nigerian Muslim, Sani Abacha, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, clean up corruption anywhere? Tragedy. How can a political party that excoriated the same character for trying to distort history about the most destructive regime in Nigerian history put forward as their Presidential candidate the same man who tried to whiten a filthy sepulchre by telling a monumental lie in board daylight? Is that not horror? May God deliver us from evil. 2 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: The Hypocrisy Of The People's General- Buhari. Part 1 by xbernardx(m): 10:47am On Mar 14, 2015 |
So what is your point now? Buhari and Abacha na dsame? Abi because GEJ give criminal ministerial seat I go come begin cast GEJ? |
Re: The Hypocrisy Of The People's General- Buhari. Part 1 by Spaxon(f): 10:56am On Mar 14, 2015 |
pls who read all this trash........... |
Re: The Hypocrisy Of The People's General- Buhari. Part 1 by xbernardx(m): 11:00am On Mar 14, 2015 |
Re: The Hypocrisy Of The People's General- Buhari. Part 1 by Nobody: 11:42am On Mar 14, 2015 |
amen |
Re: The Hypocrisy Of The People's General- Buhari. Part 1 by Spaxon(f): 1:05pm On Mar 14, 2015 |
xbernardx:last night it was #20 ... I don't know about now.... #fashola_joker 1 Like |
Re: The Hypocrisy Of The People's General- Buhari. Part 1 by anwo247: 1:14pm On Mar 14, 2015 |
transit4: Buhari is a thief and a hypocrites. He is not any saint. You are better than Buhari, trust me! 1 Like
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Re: The Hypocrisy Of The People's General- Buhari. Part 1 by Nobody: 11:07pm On Mar 14, 2015 |
Spaxon: u didn't ave to take it too personal |
Re: The Hypocrisy Of The People's General- Buhari. Part 1 by Spaxon(f): 7:34am On Mar 16, 2015 |
Re: The Hypocrisy Of The People's General- Buhari. Part 1 by SLIDEwaxie(m): 7:57am On Mar 16, 2015 |
Make your write up rish part 10, na ur wahala be dt... I hope u dey read am as u dey write am because e fit be say na the only chance to get it read be dt. |
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