[quote author=intruxive post=59725300] my "dear ogbu" abi na ugu, if u r offended by the presidents speach, pls kindly note that, that is the intended purpose of the speech.... to offend enemies of the nation and to remind lovers of peace and unity that the president holds them "dear" to his heart and does not just see them as mere "fellow" citizens but loving brothers in the same country.
Ever since the speech, tbe enemies of peace have been vibrating like earth worms who encounter salt, kindly know that your torment has just began as the army have been briefed to quickly put an end to the dance of shame u are putting up in the eastern part of nigeria. Pls reserve your english as you will still lament some more. Thanks for your co operation. Yours intruxive[/quote
So you are in support of the army killing innocent unarmed people? Are you in support of boko haram killing Nigeria soldiers?

TheLawTheLegal:


You shouldn't assume that because a person with NEPA certificate is ruling Nigeria and your local gov't, all other local gov't areas should be ruled by brainless people.

I am from Nsukka local gov't area of Enugu state. A professor of PALG is my local gov't chairperson.

Don't showcase your ignorance next time.

and am suppose to take you serious?

a nepa certificate?
oga go and pack to one side joor

maduxs:
we all will die one day its just a matter of time but buhari time is so near that its written all over him.one of his leg is the spirit world now and there is nothing you can do about it.

you can cross over to the spirit world first and then pull him in.

couragemurphy:


Out of hatred you decided to show the world why you keep failing English language.... You have dictionary but never make reference to it when needed. You have smart phone but cant make profitable use of it.

So in your myopic brain, you think ''dear'' is informal? No wonder you are still jobless because people like you write letters to your prospective employers without addressing them formally.

Ewu biafra....smh 4 u

You can abuse me all you like over the obvious mix up people with sense understood Wat I meant


Zombie!!!

You are the ignorant one

Kennyprince:
You also seem to ve issues with English language. When u call somebody my dear citizens, what's new there? Are Nigerians not citizens of this country?

In the church , pastors address followers as my dear people of God.....does it mean they personalise the people?


Hmmmm

So in nutshell bumhari is now Nigeria,
Ur village people is at work

kobijacobs:



English is officially dead here....just look at you

They have nailed her,

Gashki:
Mr. President uses " Dear " and you said is offensive, which school of thought are you searching from?
Simple sentence become difficult to understand.
From my own point of view you should review your thoughts.

Can u read what u have written for the second time?

MTKbudapest:


i can see that u dont understand the use of english at all.

U have alot to learn in english.

U dont use dear when u are adressing in a formal way, u can only use it in an informal way. Even ur said pastor is wrong by using my dear people of God instead of my fellow people of God.

I dont think u would like to call ur boss in the office "my dear boss"

Can I call him 'my fellow boss' sha? The guy that composed DAT actually made sense to a reasonable degree but coming up with such focal point is awkward. Then you, defending such dramatic grammar seems idle-minded. Read the letter again and discover the main points as they may be useful for u sooner or later.

That was a nice one for an ineptitude leader who remained uncorrected

jahsharon:
Any senseless rant from a useless street urchin.

Buhari's citizen spotted!

TheLawTheLegal:
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI.
By Charles Ogbu.

Mr President, Sir,
This open letter is necessitated by issues of urgent national importance not unconnected with your 3 minute recorded broadcast to Nigerians this morning where you stated that Nigeria's unity is settled and not negotiable.

Mr President, Sir, I wasn't exactly born with a talent for political correctness so I like to assume your permission to pay you the courtesy of being blunt.

First, I want to register my displeasure that you, a mere servant and employee of the Nigerian people, could derisively address your employers and the same people paying your salaries even when you are hardly at work, as "my dear citizens" instead of "my fellow citizens".

That derisive opening line in your speech lend more credence to an already established fact which is that you are an arrogant victim of messiah complex who sees his people, not as his employers whose wishes he must harken to, but as lesser mortals and slaves who are his to do as he pleases. Even Emperor Nero didn't address Romans in that condescending manner.

Mr president sir, we are not your citizens. We are not even just your fellow citizens! We are your employers! We are your boss! We pay your bill. We feed you, Mr president. Talk to us with some respect!

Mr president, when you told us how you discussed with Ojukwu in 2003 and agreed that Nigeria's unity is non negotiable, what exactly did you think the reference to the late Biafra strong man would achieve?
Did you think that line would magically address all the institutionalized grave injustices in the system which you've made worse with your open display of tribal bigotry, vindictiveness, raw hatred for people from a particular section of the country and criminal disregard for the same constitution you swore to protect??

That you believe the unity of over 180 million people is something you, a Fulani man and Ojukwu, an Igbo man, can sit in your small sitting room somewhere in your small village of Daura and conclusively discuss, says a whole lot about how much value you attach to the so called unity.

As a free citizen of a free world and one of those paying your salaries, I find that statement criminally offensive and hopelessly disappointing. But even more disappointing is the fact that even after spending billions of our tax money and over 100 days treating an undisclosed ailment abroad, you seem not to have learnt anything from your numerous administrative blunders and trailer load of un-presidential utterances, actions and inactions which in most part, are responsible for the mess we are in today.

Mr President sir, let me remind you that you, it was, not Nnamdi Kanu, who resuscitated and fuelled the current Biafra agitation. Even the activities of the Niger Delta militants were all birthed by your tact-less, bigoted, vindictive and mostly common-sensically bankrupt utterances and actions.

And to prove that you are an unteachable ethnic jingoist with an iniquitious sense of national unity and an atrocitious sense of governance, all through your 3 minute address,
You didn't tell your employers the kind of ailment that kept you away from your duty post for over 100 days and gulped billions of tax payers' money.

You didn't announce measures to resuscitate the economy which your criminal ineptitude and analogue economic plans largely played a part in destroying.
You didn't mention measures you plan on taking towards addressing the grievances of the secessionist groups even when you admitted some of their grievances are genuine.

You didn't make any assurances towards calming freyed nerves considering the mood of the country.

You didn't categorically condemn the series of terror your fulani brethren are visiting on Nigerians. Instead, you played it down as mere herdsmen/farmers clashes.

You didn't even categorically condemn your siblings (Arewa Youths) for publicly threatening genocide on Igbos living in the North come October 1st, 2017.
You did none of the above.
Instead,
You spent almost 50% of your broadcast threatening social media users and aggrieved citizens who are only asking you to treat them as equal stake-holders in the Nigeria project or allow them quit this oppressive union. The other 50% was wasted on tales about your meeting with Ojukwu where the duo of you supposedly decided on behalf of over 180 million of us that the unity of Nigeria is non negotiable.

In a nutshell, you spent over 100 days abroad on medical tourism on tax payers' money against your campaign promises only to come back with nothing but a trailer-load of insult, derision and threats for the same citizens who paid and are still paying all your hospital bill and salaries even when you were hardly doing any job??

Quite frankly, Mr President, that speech would easily pass off as one hell of comedy except it was a tragedy.

You've simply proven that you are a man far detached from reality. It would seem you are still stuck in 1985. Indeed, a leopard never changes its skin.

Now, my dear president, as one of your employers, Iet me gift you with some piece of advise:
First, Nigeria is not a nation unless we've all decided to adopt a very confused and lopsided understanding of the term, "nation". More importantly, our unity as a people is a farce. It doesn't exist. You cannot discuss the negotiability or non-negotiability of a unity that only exist in your imagination.

How can there be unity when you, Mr President, went to a foreign land and publicly promised to discriminate against those who didn't vote you with your infamous 97%_5% speech?

Where is the unity when you were busy gifting boko haram terrorists and the marauding herdsmen with a juicy amnesty package and military protection respectively at the exact time you were, and still are, visiting the unarmed Biafra agitators with festival of bullets?
Most importantly, Mr President, mentioning "unity" and "non-negotiable" in the same sentence betrays a very poor appreciation of the queen's language. If it's unity, then the powers that bind the parties together must have been birthed through negotiations. In which case, any talk about the non-negotiability of such unity becomes the height of conscientious idiocy bothering on the fringes of lunacy. If it's unity that was a product of force, then it's no unity at all.

Mr President sir, the clause "our unity is non-negotiable" is an Oxymoronic expression.

You cannot threaten people of diverse cultural, religious and language background into nationhood!!!!

Unity cannot be forced!

On your threats to agitators, Mr President, you proved you lack basic understanding of what the issues are. It is not just the southeast that is aggrieved, both the south south, south west and even the North, your own region, are all aggrieved as examplified by the October 1st quit notice and threat of genocide against Igbos living in the North. Every section of the country is aggrieved.

Rather than proving you are too bloodthirsty for dialogue, initiate a workable time-bound plan towards restructuring this country in such a way to enthrone justice, fairness, equity and merit.

Restructure this British contraption now!
Or,
Watch the whole country collapse under the weight of its own internal contradictions.
The fastest way of escalating an agitation is by trying to suppress it rather than addressing the issues that birthed it.

Mr President, sir, I am not unaware of the fact that in the coming days, we are going to be witnessing more killing of the unarmed pro-Biafra agitators and series of arrests, abduction and incarceration targeted at social media users and your political opponents but I have a message for you, sir, just as we survived your brutality between 1984-1986, We Will Survive You!

This, too, shall pass!

I wish you exactly what you wish Nigerians.

Love from
Charles Ogbu.

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What should one expect when a thug becomes a president?, thuggish comments and actions will always rule d day.

egokudiowomoney:
The last application letter i wrote,i used 'Dear Sir/Ma'

Why use "Dear sir/Ma"? You would have used " My Dear Sir/Ma". Though we should not make a mountain out of it, Buhari was wrong. Nigeria is not his family and we his children (property). When you use the word "my", it means whatever you are adding thereafter is yours. My dear friend, your friend. My dear son, your son. My dear cloth, your cloth. My dear children, your children but My dear children of God, no more your children but that of God because of the " of". "Of" now changes the direction from you to God. Buhari would have used ( My dear citizens of Nigeria or My fellow citizens), this will show that we are not his property but equal stake holders. Instead of you supporting his obvious blunder/disrespect, you should only support that after all he's human and we all make mistakes. I don't blame Buhari though, he has very poor education. I blame his supposedly educated aides. The Op is right.

[quote author=desmond2pk post=59734386][/quote]

All points raised by this writer is valid but your prejudice has blinded you. The is nothing short of a military speech. Even coup plotters addressed the nation as fellow Nigerians not my dear citizens. Is Buhari Now a country? Both the writer and reader of the insulting speech deserve horse whips.

The truth remains that we either peacefully work out a unity that will bring equity and justice or Nigeria will break violently.

Threat will not work.
This is not 1967 or 1984/85

ericsmith:



"dear" that statement is only emphasizin how much nigerians mean to him ... we might not b dear to him but that is d only appropriate meaning.
when people clamour for the president to talk ,,its not as if they want to hear him or see him... its all about lookin for loopholes to twist and attack d presidency..
"fellow" is more or less a fallacy use overtime by leaders. but face reality ..president of a country can not b equals with the citizens..
its time 5%ters start criticizing our president via cartoon ... baba has premium subscription to cartoon network

Stop showing your poor knowledge of English language in the name of supporting your president. Though we should not make a mountain out of it, Buhari was wrong. Nigeria is not his family and we his children (property). When you use the word "my", it means whatever you are adding thereafter is yours. My dear friend, your friend. My dear son, your son. My dear cloth, your cloth. My dear children, your children but My dear children of God, no more your children but that of God because of the " of". "Of" now changes the direction from you to God. Buhari would have used ( My dear citizens of Nigeria or My fellow citizens), this will show that we are not his property but equal stake holders. Instead of you supporting his obvious blunder/disrespect, you should only support that after all he's human and we all make mistakes. I don't blame Buhari though, he has very poor education. I blame his supposedly educated aides. The Op is right.

psp2pc:



you can cross over to the spirit world first and then pull him in.

he is there already. Buhari is a dead man

leo2020:
Irrelevant write-up and share waste of time..attention seeking mumu ogbu..

Nwa ndi ara it is "sheer waste"

maduxs:
he is there already. Buhari is a dead man

you the one who issued his death certificate right?

Hahahaha Igbos wanting Buhari to respect them ... this one funny oooooo, the tribe the whole world knows that lack respect ethics.... if you don't like Buhari's speech then go and kill yourself .

psp2pc:


you the one who issued his death certificate right?

a man who wants to die doesn't need death certificate to die. Its his relatives that needs it for future reference's and property reclamation.

maduxs:
The president will soon die before this year elapse. No need to worry ourselves cause the man I saw as president is half dead.he will soon go and join ojukwu to finish their discussion.

You are going to die before him, a very miserable death at that.

Oga must you talk for sake of it?

kunzel:

You are going to die before him, a very miserable death at that.

you too will not live for ever

[quote author=Ziluxger post=59736781]
My dear children, your children but My dear children of God, no more your children but that of God because of the " of". "Of" now changes the direction from you to God. Buhari would have used ( My dear citizens of Nigeria or My fellow citizens), this will show that we are not his property but equal stake holders. Instead of you supporting his obvious blunder/disrespect, you should only support that after all he's human and we all make mistakes. I don't blame Buhari though, he has very poor education. I blame his supposedly educated aides. The Op is right.



why wonnt the op be right no b nigerians ...where statement like "come" culd b twisted as disrespect,,command ... "stop" even ur bae go term it embrassing.. u av the right 2 ur opinion.
my mom 's friend alway referred to me as my dear ..so she owns me !!
2015 losers are jus bin problematic,,you guys masturbate on anytin info twerking @ u guys
i av poor educational background tew..ddnt know bsc wonnt b enough to decipher "my dear".
what if i say Bleep you ... !! interprete anyhow u like but please dnnt call me gay.

Ziluxger:

Stop showing your poor knowledge of English language in the name of supporting your president. Though we should not make a mountain out of it, Buhari was wrong. Nigeria is not his family and we his children (property). When you use the word "my", it means whatever you are adding thereafter is yours. My dear friend, your friend. My dear son, your son. My dear cloth, your cloth. My dear children, your children but My dear children of God, no more your children but that of God because of the " of". "Of" now changes the direction from you to God. Buhari would have used ( My dear citizens of Nigeria or My fellow citizens), this will show that we are not his property but equal stake holders. Instead of you supporting his obvious blunder/disrespect, you should only support that after all he's human and we all make mistakes. I don't blame Buhari though, he has very poor education. I blame his supposedly educated aides. The Op is right.

first of all,, u cannt say my dear car/house,nor land(properties) ..which outrules ur reasonin.. property is that wat ur father see you as ..#smh
why wonnt the op be right no b nigerians ...where statement like "come" culd b twisted as disrespect,,command ... "stop" even ur bae go term it embrassing.. u av the right 2 ur opinion.
my mom 's friend alway referred to me as my dear ..so she owns me !! omg
2015 losers are jus bin problematic,,you guys masturbate on any info twerking @ u guys
i av poor educational background tew..ddnt know bsc wonnt provide adequate knowledge enough to argue "my dear"..
what if i say Bleep you ... !! interprete anyhow u like but please dnnt call me gay.

Boyooosa:

Can I call him 'my fellow boss' sha? The guy that composed DAT actually made sense to a reasonable degree but coming up with such focal point is awkward. Then you, defending such dramatic grammar seems idle-minded. Read the letter again and discover the main points as they may be useful for u sooner or later.

tell that to ur pastor.
And to ur sick president

MTKbudapest:


tell that to ur pastor.
And to ur sick president

I did not know dat u r a foreigner, had I know, I wouldn't hve mentioned here. But all in all, its good at this juncture dat I let you know dat Buhari is our president here in Nigeria and dissuade from the word marginalization on the nearest future cos u r d one informing me try dis platform dat u r nor a Nigerian. And henceforth, I will not address u as such. After all, why should I be debating wit an alien about my own country.

2019 my party peoples party for development, we r going to front lt colonel Oxcar ibibibo as our flag bearer should apc front moh'd buhari as theirs.


By the grace of God or otherwise say insha allah, we shall not just defeat him but chase him out of asorock.


God bless we the good fellows of this country which isnt a nation yet.

Mujtahida:

Do you know that the standard opening lines to most coup d'etat speeches in our political history was 'Fellow Nigerians... '? Did it change how the military treated Nigerians throughout our long history of military dictatorship? Abeggi

The "Fellow" indicates their acknowledgement of the addressed as equal and shows humility and respect rather than "My citizens" which indicates the addressee sees the people as his property and it shows arrogance or a lack of sound cognitive reasoning.

BlakKluKluxKlan:



The "Fellow" indicates their acknowledgement of the addressed as equal and shows humility and respect rather than "My citizens" which indicates the addressee sees the people as his property and it shows arrogance or a lack of sound cognitive reasoning.

Your Perception is your reality. Buhari never said 'my Citizens' but 'my dear Citizens'. If your friend addresses you as my friend or my dear friend does that mean you belong to him or if you as a citizen say 'my country' does it mean Nigeria belongs to you? This point is just too watery to make an issue out of particularly when weightier issues are calling for attention. With all due respect I feel it is rather those who are making an issue out of this whose cognition is low.

Mujtahida:

Your Perception is your reality. Buhari never said 'my Citizens' but 'my dear Citizens'. If your friend addresses you as my friend or my dear friend does that mean you belong to him or if you as a citizen say 'my country' does it mean Nigeria belongs to you? This point is just too watery to make an issue out of particularly when weightier issues are calling for attention. With all due respect I feel it is rather those who are making an issue out of this whose cognition is low.

Your problem is your failure to understand what citizen means. It is a legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized. In other words, it means a people belong to a state or are subject to it.

When Buhari said My dear citizens, he made himself a country, and we his subjects/citizens.
We are his fellow countrymen, not his dear citizens.

Can a student, say an SUG president, address students as 'My dear Students' or ' My fellow students'?

Why are you making it difficult for you to understand this?

TheLawTheLegal:


Your problem is your failure to understand what citizen means. It is a legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized. In other words, it means a people belong to a state or are subject to it.

When Buhari said My dear citizens, he made himself a country, and we his subjects/citizens.
We are his fellow countrymen, not his dear citizens.

Can a student, say an SUG president, address students as 'My dear Students' or ' My fellow students'?

Why are you making it difficult for you to understand this?

When the late Keshi like so many other Coaches addressed Super Eagles players as'my Players' does that ring the bells of ownership in your brain to the extent that you will write a long epistle decrying that point? It's not worth it. It's an academic point-empty and without basis.

TheLawTheLegal:


Your bias wouldn't let you know that you have already contradicted yourself.
My dear people of God
and
My dear citizens
have totally different meanings.
my dear people of God acknowledges that the people belong to God while my dear citizens means that the masses belong to Mr president.
Have you heard any president address their citizens as my dear citizens, instead of my fellow citizens?

my brother don't mind that fool,maybe he thought the president is now a country, by calling us my dear citizens...... Citizens of buhari