Gen. M.Buhari (now President M. Buhari) contested the 2003, 2007 and 2011 presidential elections but was rejected by Nigerians for various reasons.

Fast-forward to 2015, he ran for the same position with better packaging and was still rejected by over 12 million voters a.k.a the 5%.

Now with these recent happenings in Nigeria: Terrible fuel situation, superlatively epileptic power supply, Forex problem that seem to have defied all "medication", high cost of everything, hunger in the land etc, can we say that Nigerians especially the 5% were right in refusing to support him (PMB)?

Could it be that they really wanted the best for the country?

makazona:
Gen. M.Buhari (now President M. Buhari) contested the 2003, 2007 and 2011 presidential elections but was rejected by Nigerians for various reasons.

Fast-forward to 2015, he ran for the same position with better packaging and was still rejected by over 12 million voters a.k.a the 5%.

Now with these recent happenings in Nigeria: Terrible fuel situation, superlatively epileptic power supply, Forex problem that seem to have defied all "medication", high cost of everything, hunger in the land etc, can we say that Nigerians especially the 5% were right in refusing to support him (PMB)?

Could it be that they really wanted the best for the country?

Buhari is doing his best, under GEJ faced a bigger problem when the oil slump started, how will he nw fair nw the oil revenue is non existent. GEJ used up our foreign reserve to cover up for his inability to save.

No it's not.
Take for instance d scarcity in d downstream, this is corruption fighting back. For a fact I know some powerful independent marketers who lift from government depots through the majors and sell at black market rate or move it across boarder. If government insist they sell at official rate they shut operations and create artificial scarcity. I am not talking of those Mickey Mouse marketers with one or two stations buying 5 to 9 trucks on Tarmacs, am talking of the major independents with station spreads as large as the majors (total, Mobil) lifting millions of litters from government depots as independents and through the majors as cash and carry. These guys have the resources to create ripples in d system.

SUPERPACK:

Buhari is doing his best, under GEJ faced a bigger problem when the oil slump started, how will he nw fair nw the oil revenue is non existent. GEJ used up our foreign reserve to cover up for his inability to save.

Sir, this is not a GEJ/PMB comparism discussion.

From ur point, I am still looking for answer to my qstion

Yes,The president is working hard...but i hope he's surrounded by people with the right information and technique to move us forward

I am telling you that Rauf would have been a better choice to rule Nigeria.. .

At least he has school uniform..

Cry more, we are heading to a better naija

makazona:


Sir, this is not a GEJ/PMB comparism discussion.

From ur point, I am still looking for answer to my qstion

those that voted for GEJ in 2011, are still same people that voted for buhari in 2015, it was a case of "when the desirable is nt available the available becomes the desirable" also he has been recieving massive vote frm nigerians both in 2003 and 2007 where he recieved 31% of the total vote, but the elections has always nt been free and fair due to lack of opposition strength.

SUPERPACK:
those that voted for GEJ in 2011, are still same people that voted for buhari in 2015, it was a case of "when the desirable is nt available the available becomes the desirable" also he has been recieving massive vote frm nigerians both in 2003 and 2007 where he recieved 31% of the total vote, but the elections has always nt been free and fair due to lack of opposition strength.

So he was never rejected?

God bless Nigeria!

The man contested against Obj(2003), Yaradua(2007) and GEJ(2011) and lost all. Why are people trying to compre him to GEJ alone?
People who voted him in 2015 did so on various sentimental reasons. No rational thinking adult with knowledge of history voted a man who in less than one year of toppling a democratic govt in 1983 ruined the nation to a point where nigerians had to queue to receive cups of salt,sugar,garri,rice and other 'essential commodities'. The man has that uncanny ability to turn any thriving economy to a failed economy in the very shortest period.
I can bet you that most people who voted him had no knowledge of history. Most elders avoided and warned them but they preferred to be blinded by tribal and religious sentiments.
Op,Buhari lost in 03,07,011 and won in 2015 because those who knew his history had gotten older,weaker or late over these years and some kids who didn't know their left from their right came of voting age. Check it

No, what it shows is d level of ineffectual buffoonry of Jona to make PMB attractive after 3 attempts!

PMB's unknown quantity was preferred to Jona's cluelessness!

What an Adult sees sitting down, a kid cannot see standing up

Amya:
What an Adult sees sitting down, a kid cannot see standing up

Hi, do u own a church ⛪?

What a prophetess!

What happened to ur blog. Not showing

makazona:


So he was never rejected?

yes he was never rejected. rather the parties he previously contested under are nt popular.

SUPERPACK:

Buhari is doing his best, under GEJ faced a bigger problem when the oil slump started, how will he nw fair nw the oil revenue is non existent. GEJ used up our foreign reserve to cover up for his inability to save.

If Buhari is doing his best right now, then we are in pretty big trouble.

His best seems to be the height of INCOMPETENCE.

Pls tell me, did Buhari say that not having savings is Nigeria's problem right now ?

I remind you that OBJ inherited far worse situation than Buhari did. OBJ went straight to work, and hardly wailed as loudly against his predecessors as Buhari is doing.

A leader who came into office with a $30b kitty should not be shamelessly wailing to cover up his epic incompetence.

eyeview:
The man contested against Obj(2003), Yaradua(2007) and GEJ(2011) and lost all. Why are people trying to compre him to GEJ alone?
People who voted him in 2015 did so on various sentimental reasons. No rational thinking adult with knowledge of history voted a man who in less than one year of toppling a democratic govt in 1983 ruined the nation to a point where nigerians had to queue to receive cups of salt,sugar,garri,rice and other 'essential commodities'. The man has that uncanny ability to turn any thriving economy to a failed economy in the very shortest period.
I can bet you that most people who voted him had no knowledge of history. Most elders avoided and warned them but they preferred to be blinded by tribal and religious sentiments.
Op,Buhari lost in 03,07,011 and won in 2015 because those who knew his history had gotten older,weaker or late over these years and some kids who didn't know their left from their right came of voting age. Check it

You have said it all.

Maisuya1:
No it's not.
Take for instance d scarcity in d downstream, this is corruption fighting back. For a fact I know some powerful independent marketers who lift from government depots through the majors and sell at black market rate or move it across boarder. If government insist they sell at official rate they shut operations and create artificial scarcity. I am not talking of those Mickey Mouse marketers with one or two stations buying 5 to 9 trucks on Tarmacs, am talking of the major independents with station spreads as large as the majors (total, Mobil) lifting millions of litters from government depots as independents and through the majors as cash and carry. These guys have the resources to create ripples in d system.

Very very silly, very very dishonest, and very very poor attempt to defend the indefensible.

Business 101.
Fuel marketers are business people who make a profit when they sell their products.
Common sense( which appears to be not so common after all) dictates that the more they stay open to sell their products freely and smoothly, the more money and profit they make.
Not so ?

It be moronic for major fuel marketers to cause disruptions in their businesses because they want to ......
Marketers don't make money, no predictable revenues when they lock up their stations and pretend not to have what they should be selling to make money.

Call a spade a spade.
The government has goofed big time.

Stations are charging higher for the product simply because the demand outstrips what is available by a ratio of 100 to 1.

There is real scarcity, not artificial scarcity.

makazona:


Hi, do u own a church ⛪?

What a prophetess!

What happened to ur blog. Not showing

No church. Just garden variety foresight. The blog is undergoing a restructuring.

ashjay001:
No, what it shows is d level of ineffectual buffoonry of Jona to make PMB attractive after 3 attempts!

PMB's unknown quantity was preferred to Jona's cluelessness!

Yeah, indeed.

Mr clueless established 12 federal universities in 4 years.

Mr clueless made great strides in agriculture ( as attested by the current agriculture minister).

Mr clueless did more for road infrastructure than any previous administration) as attested to by the current works minister).

Mr clueless sustained the double digit economic growth begin by OBJ and briefly derailed by Yaradua.

Mr clueless Shepherded the continued expansion of the Nigerian middle class, the first in nearly half a century.

Middle class expansion is the benchmark for economic progress.

Mr clueless Shepherded fair and free elections ( by internationally accepted standards) year after year, state after state.

Mr clueless demonstrated his patriotism by vowing that no Nigerian life is worth his ambitions. Compare that to those who vowed Bloodshed if they did not win, after trice rejected by the Nigerian people.

Mr clueless never ever interfered or compromised our growing and maturing democratic values and aspirations.
Compare that today with all the Democratic and rule of law violations in just the past 10 months.

Mr clueless delegated RESPONSIBILITIES to ministers, read and understood his budget, let the ministers shine, promoted inclusion, national unity and cohesion.

Compare that to the one who says that he nothing to those that didn't vote for him, and the unabashed NEPOTISM currently rife at the corridors of power.

Yes, indeed.
I think the Oxford dictionary needs to redefine cluelessness in the light (or darkness) of what we are witnessing in Nigeria today, 10 months after the supposed clueless one left office.

SUPERPACK:

yes he was never rejected. rather the parties he previously contested under are nt popular.

Now I get u. Thanks for your contributions, Sir

plaetton:


If Buhari is doing his best right now, then we are in pretty big trouble.

His best seems to be the height of INCOMPETENCE.

Pls tell me, did Buhari say that not having savings is Nigeria's problem right now ?

I remind you that OBJ inherited far worse situation than Buhari did. OBJ went straight to work, and hardly wailed as loudly against his predecessors as Buhari is doing.

A leader who came into office with a $30b kitty should not be shamelessly wailing to cover up his epic incompetence.

do you knw that $3 billion dollars in 1999 is bigger than $30 billion dollars in 2015. because the xchange rate in 1999 is $1=22naira, while in 2015 $1=199 naira. it means that inflation rate is 10% per year meaning Obj got same money with buhari, but the difference is 16years. When Obj became president in 1999 our economy dependence on oil was only 50%, bt he personally took it up to 75% meaning any slump in oil price will affect the country, to show u an example how much did u buy the following in 1991 compare it to 2015 price.
1. Bread
2. pure water
3. cabin biscuit
4. fuel
.
did Obj have terrorist to spend on,?
Did he meet any global oil price slump??

plaetton:


Yeah, indeed.

Mr clueless established 12 federal universities in 4 years.

Mr clueless made great strides in agriculture ( as attested by the current agriculture minister).

Mr clueless did more for road infrastructure than any previous administration) as attested to by the current works minister).

Mr clueless sustained the double digit economic growth begin by OBJ and briefly derailed by Yaradua.

Mr clueless Shepherded the continued expansion of the Nigerian middle class, the first in nearly half a century.

Middle class expansion is the benchmark for economic progress.

Mr clueless Shepherded fair and free elections ( by internationally accepted standards) year after year, state after state.

Mr clueless demonstrated his patriotism by vowing that no Nigerian life is worth his ambitions. Compare that to those who vowed Bloodshed if they did not win, after trice rejected by the Nigerian people.

Mr clueless never ever interfered or compromised our growing and maturing democratic values and aspirations.
Compare that today with all the Democratic and rule of law violations in just the past 10 months.

Mr clueless delegated RESPONSIBILITIES to ministers, read and understood his budget, let the ministers shine, promoted inclusion, national unity and cohesion.

Compare that to the one who says that he nothing to those that didn't vote for him, and the unabashed NEPOTISM currently rife at the corridors of power.

Yes, indeed.
I think the Oxford dictionary needs to redefine cluelessness in the light (or darkness) of what we are witnessing in Nigeria today, 10 months after the supposed clueless one left office.

Choi!

Sofri Sofri oo

There is no evidence that a different party and person at the helm of affair would have done better with today's prevailing world economy condition. It could even be worse if someone else had been on the seat today. So, nothing has changed. PMB is working under a very harsh environment with huge responsibility and little resources. We didn't save for the raining days. Now we are reaping the fruits of our extravagant lifestyle and corruptions.

SUPERPACK:

do you knw that $3 billion dollars in 1999 is bigger than $30 billion dollars in 2015. because the xchange rate in 1999 is $1=22naira, while in 2015 $1=199 naira. it means that inflation rate is 10% meaning Obj got same money with buhari, but the difference is 16years. When Obj became president in 1999 our economy dependence on oil was only 50%, bt he personally took it up to 75% meaning any slump in oil price will affect the country, to show u an example how much did u buy the following in 1991 compare it to 2015 price.
1. Bread
2. pure water
3. cabin biscuit
4. fuel

You must be poor in mathematics if you say that $3 billion in 1999 is more than $30b today.


With $30 billion today and very little international debt to service, the government has almost 100 times more spending power than OBJ could have dreamt of.

With $3 b , OBJ still had to service debt with $4 b annually.

Call a buffoon a buffoon, and stop shaming your self.

plaetton:


Yeah, indeed.

Mr clueless established 12 federal universities in 4 years.

Mr clueless made great strides in agriculture ( as attested by the current agriculture minister).

Mr clueless did more for road infrastructure than any previous administration) as attested to by the current works minister).

Mr clueless sustained the double digit economic growth begin by OBJ and briefly derailed by Yaradua.

Mr clueless Shepherded the continued expansion of the Nigerian middle class, the first in nearly half a century.

Middle class expansion is the benchmark for economic progress.

Mr clueless Shepherded fair and free elections ( by internationally accepted standards) year after year, state after state.

Mr clueless demonstrated his patriotism by vowing that no Nigerian life is worth his ambitions. Compare that to those who vowed Bloodshed if they did not win, after trice rejected by the Nigerian people.

Mr clueless never ever interfered or compromised our growing and maturing democratic values and aspirations.
Compare that today with all the Democratic and rule of law violations in just the past 10 months.

Mr clueless delegated RESPONSIBILITIES to ministers, read and understood his budget, let the ministers shine, promoted inclusion, national unity and cohesion.

Compare that to the one who says that he nothing to those that didn't vote for him, and the unabashed NEPOTISM currently rife at the corridors of power.

Yes, indeed.
I think the Oxford dictionary needs to redefine cluelessness in the light (or darkness) of what we are witnessing in Nigeria today, 10 months after the supposed clueless one left office.

Mr Clueless did all what u mentioned above, and was still beaten hands down at d ballot by a 3 time loser, even Mr Clueless himself won against last time around! In an election Mr Clueless oversaw as an incumbent?


Seriously, I need what u're smoking! A 3 time loser thrashed a supposedly working president(who trashed d 3 time loser handsdown in round one) in an election he organised and u're listing fallacies?

He used our funds to finance his campaign! Funds meant to fight BH, improve schools, airports, railways, healthcare etc. If he had actually spent those funds judiciously, u won't be here missing him! When will u realise his failures made PMB attractive? PMB couldn't even win a quarter of d votes in a single SW state in 2011, and yet he became d man to beat barely 4yrs later?!!!!

I'm almost running mad, trying to understand wailer reasoning!? Supporting a failure?

ashjay001:


Mr Clueless did all what u mentioned above, and was still beaten hands down at d ballot by a 3 time loser, even Mr Clueless himself won against last time around! In an election Mr Clueless oversaw as an incumbent?


Seriously, I need what u're smoking! A 3 time loser thrashed a supposedly working president(who trashed d 3 time loser handsdown in round one) in an election he organised and u're listing fallacies?

He used our funds to finance his campaign! Funds meant to fight BH, improve schools, airports, railways, healthcare etc. If he had actually spent those funds judiciously, u won't be here missing him! When will u realise his failures made PMB attractive? PMB couldn't even win a quarter of d votes in a single SW state in 2011, and yet he became d man to beat barely 4yrs later?!!!!

I'm almost running mad, trying to understand wailer reasoning!? Supporting a failure?

Lol.
I guess you're not mature enough to understand that politics and elections are about PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT more than anything else.
Voters are like the plebeians. They are unthinking in facts. They prefer short chewable soundbytes, the type that Tinubu and the Western Axis media fed them.

With regards to politicking and PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT, GEJ was monumentally clueless.

Without Tinubu, the Western Axis media, and their socially engineering( a fancy word for brainwashing) Western Axis voters, Nigerians would have overwhelmingly rejected Buhari for the 4th time.

That's history now.

Let's go out and see what the plebeians are saying now.

plaetton:


You must be a stark economic illiterate if you say that $3 billion in 1999 is more than $30b today.

Where did you go to school, if at all ?

With $30 billion today and very little international debt to service, the government has almost 100 times more spending power than OBJ could have dreamt of.

With $3 b , OBJ still had to service with $4 b annually.

Call a buffoon a buffoon, and stop shaming your self.

thank u for the insult, bt i recommend u check our inflation rate, coupled with increase in exchange rate. Thank you from an illiterate.

SUPERPACK:

Buhari is doing his best, under GEJ faced a bigger problem when the oil slump started, how will he nw fair nw the oil revenue is non existent. GEJ used up our foreign reserve to cover up for his inability to save.

leave gej and answer the question.

ziccoit:
There is no evidence that a different party and person at the helm of affair would have done better with today's prevailing world economy condition. It could even be worse if someone else had been on the seat today. So, nothing has changed. PMB is working under a very harsh environment with huge responsibility and little resources. We didn't save for the raining days. Now we are reaping the fruits of our extravagant lifestyle and corruptions.

What work is he doing? When as a minister of petroleum he can't even come address the nation, all he knows to do is globe throttling around, no body is fooled!

plaetton:


Yeah, indeed.

Mr clueless established 12 federal universities in 4 years.

Mr clueless made great strides in agriculture ( as attested by the current agriculture minister).

Mr clueless did more for road infrastructure than any previous administration) as attested to by the current works minister).

Mr clueless sustained the double digit economic growth begin by OBJ and briefly derailed by Yaradua.

Mr clueless Shepherded the continued expansion of the Nigerian middle class, the first in nearly half a century.

Middle class expansion is the benchmark for economic progress.

Mr clueless Shepherded fair and free elections ( by internationally accepted standards) year after year, state after state.

Mr clueless demonstrated his patriotism by vowing that no Nigerian life is worth his ambitions. Compare that to those who vowed Bloodshed if they did not win, after trice rejected by the Nigerian people.

Mr clueless never ever interfered or compromised our growing and maturing democratic values and aspirations.
Compare that today with all the Democratic and rule of law violations in just the past 10 months.

Mr clueless delegated RESPONSIBILITIES to ministers, read and understood his budget, let the ministers shine, promoted inclusion, national unity and cohesion.

Compare that to the one who says that he nothing to those that didn't vote for him, and the unabashed NEPOTISM currently rife at the corridors of power.

Yes, indeed.
I think the Oxford dictionary needs to redefine cluelessness in the light (or darkness) of what we are witnessing in Nigeria today, 10 months after the supposed clueless one left office.

Very well said my friend. Only that you forgot to add the reviving of the rail sector
Reduction of inflation rate from 13% in previous govt. to 7-8% throughout his tenure due to policies that invited investors
Ensured we had steady petrol supply with very little or no queues in stations even during festive seasons
Reconstructed our airports and other new airports constructed and commissioned in his tenure
every other month commissioning of projects all over the country, and work in progress in the remaining roads and other infrastructure.
Encouraged youths in agriculture, and destroyed the cabal of fertilizer subsidy.
removed petrol subsidy, but we still bought petrol btw 87-97 naira/litre and it was always available. .... and etcetera. GEJ was the best president Nigeria ever had, but was chased out due to propaganda.....

chernest2002:
leave gej and answer the question.

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