₦airaland Forum

tbaba1234:
Buhari gave us a skeleton of his ideas which I think is good enough. The interview is brilliant. I gained more confidence in me as a result.

Perhaps we are looking at different things.

he mentioned justice, agriculture and security.......without any explanation of how he will do this; but i dont expect that he should have all the answers to nigeria's problems but he is supposed to know that the fundamental problem of nigeria is the very flawed electoral process, that is why i doff my cap for Late President Musa Yaradua for attempting to fix that process

if nigeria can have an excellent electoral process then the pat utomis of this country will be in aso rock; we would have non-gate climbing men in the the national assemblies; we would have good administrators in our state and local governments doing good stuff across every inch of the nation achieving 1000 times more what buhari achieved as a military Head of state...........

these are the things we should be talking about not shouting Sai Buhari or GEJ till 2019

tbaba1234:
When did he become the candidate?? You only draft manifestos when you are confirmed before then all you have are general plans.

I thought, this was a beautiful interview

if you ask me what i will do if i become Nigeria's president i wot think twice about it!

to change a system positively you need just some intelligent masterstroke policies,which only the very selfless observant individual can come up with.

Buhari is SCARED to say anything that may count against him so he rather keep quiet like a mouse and ride on the in-corrpt image that s seems to be his only stock in trade.

fkaz:
WT: [/b]How is your relationship with Tinubu beyond politics and party activities?
Buhari:He’s a committed party member. I think, if not for him and Chief Akande and some of us, the merger wouldn’t have taken place.
[b]WT: Some see your choice of running mate, Osinbajo, as unusual. When did you meet him and why did he become your choice?
Buhari:It wasn’t out of the blues. Who was my last running mate? He was a pastor and a Yoruba man. In 2003 it was Chuba Okadigbo, a Catholic. In 2007, it was Ume-Ezeoke, an Igbo man, a Catholic. In 2011, it was Bakare, a pastor. There’s nothing unusual about them.
Frankly, I met him through [Tinubu]. He brought a team of press men who grilled us for six hours on a Friday. I had to beg them for a Friday mosque break and they allowed me to go pray and come back. He’s a professor of Constitutional Law, has been a Commissioner of Justice and an Attorney General. He’s an intellectual and has got vast experience. Who else do we have better than that?
WT: But there were speculations that Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State or Lagos State’s Babatunde Fashola would emerge your running mate. Perhaps this is why your choice appeared unusual...
Buhari:To be fair, I defined the candidate’s right to choose his running mate, which is legal. Why should I be harassed for claiming my right? The party gave me the mandate.
[b]WT: [/b]You are yet to articulate an agenda to Nigerians...
Buhari:Our manifesto is coming.
[b]WT: [/b]May we have a preview?
Buhari:But I’ve already stated that there are two fundamental issues. All other things are under security. If you don’t secure the country, you’ll be wasting your time. The government has the capacity to do some things simultaneously. This is to stop corruption.
[b]WT: [/b]What is your relationship with former Nigerian leaders, such as General Ibrahim Babangida, Olusegun Obasanjo and the rest?
Buhari:Obasanjo, of course, I competed against him in 2003 and he is still a member of the PDP. They are my biggest political enemies. I don’t think Babangida is an active member of the party like Obasanjo. We’re pressing our rights as Nigerians. Once we are out of uniform, we can pick a party of our choice. But whether in or out of uniform, everyone has the right to vote in his or her constituency. I don’t see anything between me and my former colleagues, senior or junior.
[b]WT: [/b]People say you were dictatorial when you were Head of State, but the tune seems different today, that then it was Idiagbon who was behind that approach. What was the true picture of things then?
Buhari:Idiagbon, may his soul rest in perfect peace, was very hard-working and loyal. That was his fault, being loyal. He’ll take instructions from me and implement to the letter. And because he refused to smile when he was in office, and was not sparing anybody, they put most of the blame on him. Now that he’s not there and I’m alive, they are shifting the blame to me. He was a committed Nigerian. Idiagbon had been militarily following my footsteps. He was commander of 31 Infantry Brigade, now Mechanized Brigade, which I established after the war. When I left, nexta Muslim. I’m still a Muslim. Nobody had ever talked about religion when we were around. Gowon was in charge of this country for nine years, thirty months of which was a civil war. All his commanders, Army, Navy, Air Force and Supreme Headquarters were Christians and nobody talked. When Abiola became a politician, he contested and picked his running mate Kingibe, a Muslim from Borno State. If there was justice, they won that election. But Nigerians now have certainly allowed their attention to be diverted from productivity to religious arguments and so on.
WT: [/b]What will you say to critics who translated your relationship with Idiagbon to say you’re weak?
Buhari:Give me the chance next year and see whether I’m weak or not.
WT: You just complained about how the society has been reduced to a religious and ethnic affair. What would you do if you become president come 2015?
Buhari:The way I’ll do it is by performance. It’s what is physically on the ground that matters, not what faith you practice. The constitution of the Federal republic of Nigeria says you can belong to any religion or even choose not to. It’s your business. But the fundamental issue of Nigeria is security.
[b]WT: (Cuts in) But that didn’t come to play in the process of choosing your running mate, Osinbajo as your running mate...
Buhari:You can’t absolutely ignore perception. At the same time, you’ll not allow perception to tamper with the reality on ground or social justice.
WT: A former associate of yours, Buba Galadima, said he left you because you reneged on your promise not to contest again. But here we are...
Buhari:Since I’ve gone back on what I said, the only thing for him and his followers is not to vote for me next year.
WT: If he comes back, would you accept him?
Buhari:He’s welcome.
[b]WT: [/b]You left the army in 1985. What did you delve into after being released from house arrest?
Buhari: I went home and looked after my cattle.
[b]WT: [/b]There are alarming statistics regarding youth unemployment in Nigeria. If elected, what exactly would be your solution?
Buhari: The problem is that every unemployed youth is frightened. And a number of people think we are sitting on a keg of gunpowder, which is true. But what can be done rapidly to assuage the situation. I think agriculture and solid minerals would quickly move them away from unemployment. Other things have to take time, because you need to rehabilitate the infrastructure, especially education. You don’t get qualified teachers overnight. We’ve to cultivate it by retraining them and make teaching attractive so that teachers would agree to go to the institutions. Then renovate the institutions. It is disheartening to see children in some local governments sitting on the ground under a tree with a makeshift blackboard. I think that is indefensible. There must be enough resources to put educational infrastructures on ground. That’s very important, as is healthcare.
[b]WT: [/b]Should Nigerians expect to see the Buhari brand of justice when you come into power?
Buhari: I think the practical way of approaching corruption in this country – and I make reference to NEPA, the petroleum industry and the military – is to draw a line. Whatever is the cause, we’ll not interfere with the courts, except that we’ll stay on their backs. Let them treat corruption cases as best as they can. From the day we come in, for those who think the treasury is for their pockets, there will be legal implications. If you say you will start to investigate every corruption incident in Nigeria, it would not be possible. Most of the institutions have been compromised. The person you depend on to go and investigate may be corrupt also.
WT: [/b]What is your typical day like?
Buhari: I use between 5:00am to 5:30am to pray, after which I listen to Voice of America, then the BBC up to 7:00am. Then I enjoy the benefit of retirement and put in an hour or so of sleep, and then I come out and have breakfast. After that, it’s the office and there are usually those who have an appointment and those who don’t, waiting for me. That’s what takes most of my time. Now that I’ve got a ticket, we have to be busy building the structure on the ground because time is against us.
WT: What sport do you play?
Buhari: I used to play squash and tennis. Now I walk.
[b]WT: [/b]What is your favourite food?
Buhari: Tuwon Alkama.
[b]WT: [/b]The yohung are constantly online these days. Will your presidency be social media-friendly?
Buhari: Yes. I want the government to get to the people. I want an honest assessment of our performance to be conveyed to the public.
[b]WT: At 72, you’re still strong. What’s the secret?
Buhari: I think it’s the military training. I played a lot of squash and table tennis, too. Now I try to walk three times a week at least.
WT: There’s an impression in some quarters that you’re misunderstood. What can you say about that?
Buhari: I don’t think I’m misunderstood by most Nigerians. I’m misunderstood deliberately by paid agents of the PDP. That’s all I can say.
WT: What would you say is your philosophy?
Buhari: Social justice. From leadership of your family to whatever you become, make sure there is justice

buhari says our manifesto is coming and its less than 2 months to the elections

he is asked for previews still he cant give anything meaningful.......this says a lot about the man:you have been running for this for the fourth time and you have nothing to say is your agenda!!!!!!

all he keeps saying is security and more of justice; buhari's sense of justice is that the oil money should be shared equally across the states; he thinks the south are more advanced because of oil rather than realising that the north's problem is that their elites do not have a raging desire to emancipate their people with sound education and freedom to think outside of a culture and credo that is making them static and left behind: i feel sad seeing young teens from the north roaming lagos streets as shoe-shiners or riding motorcycle taxis or "beasts of burden" in our markets when they could have been better engaged..

buhari may have a clean sheet regarding handling public funds so he is best like the Chairman of some SURE-P or Minister of Petroleum but he is not visionary enough to take Nigeria to the first world where this great country belongs

haibe:
i will be disappointed if you were not born in this indomie generation cos I believe only a person born in this decade would reason like this. For someone like me, I have watched my parents and other matured couples grow from little finance level to what you will call wealth. My mom never showed any desire to leave my dad because of finance, never. and guess what, they are doing well with their marriage like never before and have both made it today financially.

Even if something happens, my dad would never have the desire to leave my mom because of how they have struggled together from the scratch, unlike a lady who just joins from nowhere into the riches. I know about 3 families who also moved from grass to grace.

To the ladies out there, it doesn't matter if ur man isn't so rich as long as u love him. Play a part by assisting in raising finances too and when you both later make it in life, your love will be bounded by nothing.

Secondary school love can threive with money same for campus romance only because the parents are picking the bills. Of the love birds!

When you are an adult, love doesn't pay the rent, nor put food on the table, nor pay the kids school fees, nor even buy the wedding gown.....let's be balanced here! What does it is finance!

The problem is that people jump into romance too early and they begin to lament the consequences!
A man is ready to woo a woman when he can take care of himself and has made something of himself and that includes financilally!

The ladies are also expected to prepare themselves too cos I won't advise a
man to marry a woman who can't hold her own

Life is simple we are the ones who complicate for ourseld by being impratical and impatient with people

What does a market butcher have to offer a graduate working in a mutli national firm?

Prove your worth first before making marital moves else you will end up whinning that girls are gold diggers

Infact what usually happens is that a couple encounters themselves. In the field of trying to make something out of themselves and that's most likely where your parents met unlike lazy dudues who justw want everything handed over to them on a platter of gold

alexdellafonte:
I love this,Nigerians should learn to live in peace with one another irrespective of ethnic or religious differences.

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/muslim-youths-protect-christians-xmas-service-kaduna/

The future of this country remains the youth of nigeria not the power-hungry derelicts we call our leaders

surugede:
And why are we all blind to see that that's a Photoshop

but the GEJ RICE ISNT PHOTOSHOPPED

lalasticlala:
Goodluck Jonathan Rice Bags Hit Nigerian Villages,

GEJ Reelection Adverts Flood London

President Jonathan Begins Aggressive 2015 Reelection Campaign Online & In The UK

As 2015 general elections date draws closer, the most-unpopular President in the history of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has taken his campaign oversees.

Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign advert hasbeen spotted on various Metro buses in the United Kingdom.

Another thing going viral isGoodluck Jonathan rice. Sources in the know disclosed that many more bags of GEJ Rice had been distributed to potential voters in rural areas of Nigeria, these are the people who have no clue about who the man Jonathan is.

While Buhari and APC are targetting urban voters, GEJ is busy bombarding people in rural areas with free gifts in order to win their votes, this is likely to guarantee his victory.

He has started an aggressive online campaign to ensure his reelection courtesy of his 21 billion mega campaign fund donated by lobbyists who had benefited and still benefiting from his administration.


http://naijagists.com/goodluck-jonathan-rice-bags-hit-nigerian-villages-gej-reelection-adverts-flood-london/

its a shame that GEJ owuld go this low but APC have done the same; my theory is that can the Nigerian youth amalgate and kcik these two cancerous groups outta of Nigeria by 2019

voting in the APC is replacing the same with same, so its better than let the PDP go in four years than APC perpetuate and 16 years or more by then we ould mostly be in our 40s and 50s

Please can we stop demonising our ladies.......

Guys have you for one second imagined what is means to be a lady.....

A lady is naturally configured to receive before she can give......check natural anatomy and the process of reprduction

A man is suppossed to be bouyant in something concrete to win a lady's confidence, you are not financially stable but you are gunning for a lady who has arranged her sef.....you are a gold digger too

Guys get off your lazy behind, work and get some stabilty is a fundmental necessity.......romance cannot thrive without finance....that's an inconvenient truth

Datsme:
There s stil a reasonabl difference btw d 2. APC states r beta in governance n there we can entrust them wt our votes. CHANGE s inevi table[i] There s stil a reasonabl difference btw d 2. APC states r beta in governance n there we can entrust them wt our votes. CHANGE s inevi table[/i] There s stil a reasonabl difference btw d 2. APC states r beta in governance n therefore we can entrust them wt our votes. CHANGE s inevi table

obviously buharists do not know what good governance means up till now; you think its about tarring more roads and building more bridges, as essential as this maybe, but you should demand much more:

can you list just three policies of the APC that you are clamouring about without googling it up?

i wish somewhat that buhari should even win so that y'all will wisen up once and for all

Legacy44:
With all due respect...what change are u referring to
Is it APC (made up of majorly defected PDP-polithiefcians) or Buhari - an Islamist fundamentalist.

Dnt get me wrong...am all for change but... not if the opposition presents smtn far worse and sinister.
Electing Buhari will begin the era of islamic dominance swiftly followed by the long-planned Islamization of Nigeria...the same fate that befell Turkey will surely be upon us...(U can read up the history of Turkey, a nation with over a thousand year history of Christianity, that groomed most of the early Apostles and early Church)
Believe me when i tell u that there is more to Buhari's agenda than what u hear in the news. Appointin a christian VP means nothing and can stop nothing. Dnt be deceived.

I knw u have ur doubts but Jonathan is the trajectory we need. He may not be the main agent of transformation but he will usher it in.

I believe 2015 will be a turning point for good in Nigeria's history...and Buhari will never enter Aso rock...as long as God is on the throne.

You nailed it especially when you said GEJ may not be the main agent of agent but could usher it in!

Thanks for that intelligent judgement

Datsme:
Mba I wont read ds
SUMMARY pls

Meanwhile,

#PigDPMUSTGO!!! By May 29, 1999, we had 23 PDP governors, 6 AD, and 7 APP. Eight years after, this is their story: (A) PDP (23 governors) 1.
James lbori - PDP Delta - in prison for looting 2. DSP Alamieseigha - PDP
Bayelsa - Ex- convict for looting 3. Lucky Igbinedion - PDP Edo - Ex-
convict for looting 4. Peter Odili - PDP Rivers - In court for looting 5.
Chimaroke Nnamani - PDP Enugu - In court for looting 6. Ayo Fayose -
PDP Ekiti - In court for looting 7. Rasheed Ladoja - PDP Oyo - In court for looting 8. Alao Akala - PDP Oyo - In court for looting 9. Gbenga Daniel -
PDP Ogun - In court for looting 10. Ikenna Ohakim - PDP Imo - In court
for looting 11. Adamu Muazu - Bauchi (current PDP National Chairman) -
In court for looting over N19 Billion from the state treasury 12. Joshua
Dariye - PDP Plateau - In court for looting 13. Jolly Nyame - PDP Taraba -
In court for looting the state treasury 14. Abdulahi Adamu - PDP Nassarawa - In court for looting the state treasury 15. Boni Haruna - PDP
Adamawa - (newly appointed minister by President Jonathan) - In court
for looting the treasury 16. Saminu Turaki - Ex-gov. PDP Jigawa - In court
for looting the treasury 17. Orji Uzor Kalu - PDP Abia - In court for looting
the treasury (B). AD to AC, 6 govs NO Ex governor has ever been taken to
court for treasury looting. NOTE:- Tinubu of Lagos was dragged to Code of Conduct Tribunal for having foreign accounts while in power against
government policy of zero foreign account for public officials. He was
found not guilty because he had the accounts before his election to the
office of governor. Case dismissed. (C) APP - (ANPP) 7 governors 1.
Attahiru Baffarawa - APP Sokoto - In court for looting (he is now in a
PDP member) 2. Prince Abubakar Audu - ANPP Kogi - In court for looting. So APC made up of AD/ AC/ACN of the past is leading the pack. Does it
not make perfect sense to allow these people to lead at the center?
Culled from George Kaizer's wall. You may add the two ex-national
chairmen of PDP, Ahmadu Ali and Bamanga Tukukur whose sons are
facing multi-billion naira oil subsidy fraud charges. Let's protect our
future today! Do not survive with PDP voting bribe of #500 for another 4years. Say no to bribe and vote for CHANGE.

Abeg, All I want s CHANGE

Can you vouch with your life that Tinubu shouldn't be in jail for looting??

Buharists are just like jihadists their emotions betray their reasoning

What change has APC brought to their states? Are their state's electoral commissions now worse than Inec; are the LGs not mere appandages of the state govts;are their senators not pocketing the outragous $1M annual pay along with the PDP?

I am not saying PDP of GEJ is okay but let's not carry on as if APC is better!

samuelson06:
Someone should go tell him that we are tired of prayers. We won't pray for anyone or anything. Other nations don't depend on the people's prayers to make things work. I used to like and support him but all that change after pondering on 6 wasted years Nigeria has passed through in his hands. GEJ and his government have done more worst than good to all especially those of us in the South South and Akwacross (Cross Riverians and Akwaibomites) in particular. All his promises to us is still in the pipeline, only God knows when it'll materialize. Long story short, he'll be fighting for votes with GMB in these two states which would have been avoided if only he fixed Calabar Itu Road - a big major road in the South South which he knows. South South have no reason to vote this man again. Please my people, let's wise up. Let's go with GMB for a new South South and a new Nigeria. We need change. Help me vote Buhari. Let's vote for Change.

buharists are naive people................mumus of the rogue and brigand called tinubu..sad

akinsadeez:
So after all the mouth he has made he can ho back to working with Agbaje. It is such a pity that Obanikoro is not a man of principle, otherwise he would not withdraw his case against agbaje and the PDP. This isn't about agbaje winning the primary, it is about things being done according to Democratic ideals. Agbaje could have won the primary but it should have been free and fair. A situation where 806 delegates vote and 860 votes are recorded in a primary portends great danger for the election next year and by extension our democracy. If votes are being inflated in an in-house primary, pray tell what will be done in the main election.
Obanikoro should have taken a firm stand against such undemocratic practices even at the expense of his personal or political gain.

you spoke with such rare sagacity

i kinda like JIMI but the way he won the prinaries and the way tells me that jimi missed his step big time.

if i were jimi i would also reject the result even if i emerged winner; this singular act will endear him to lagosians and better his chances of winning

unlike the sentimental and emotional buharists, i wont change but not by ill means or cronies

phrancyking:
Am 22 years old. I 'ave dated three girls, they all left me because I told them I would never have sex before marriage.. the first girl accused me of impotency.. the second girl was blunt she told me she can't cope.. the third one left without a comment ..

I need a girl Buh don't wanna have sex. please I need your advice

At 22 you already have been into three relationships? That's not approriate unless you are already prepared to marry, which I doubt.

If your still in school, date your studies and they won't demand for s.ex, if your already graduated and are working, build your career the right person who values your person will see you!

But you sef can't tell the kind of girl that doesn't think chastity is a way of life from the the 15mins of conversation these days......but its like you like the so-called Hawt girls and you want to "convert" them.....mehn that's impossible!

Stick to friendship, don't force it....if someone is attracted to you, you won't have to beg them it happens all naturally

kingthreat:
Femi fani-kayode will write articles to insult even his own late father, Just to please his pockets. A man of zero integrity and vast hypocrisy.

FFK is a thief and a corrupt man but what he says of Buhari is the absolute truth

Buhari is not our saviur

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am routing for GEJ not because he used our common funds to award contracts for this commendable railway projects, but because there is not yet issue driven candidacy available yet not even the hypocritical APC, APC CLAIMED THAT CONTROLLING THE SOUTHWEST WILL MAKE CREATE RAILS ACROSS THE SOUTH WESTERN BLOCK, FOUR YEARS AFTER NOTHING HA BEEN SEEN AND THEY ARE HERE SHOUTING CHANGE AND CARRYING BROOM

Great work!
Are you an architect or you are more of creating 3D images.......

Anyways sPM your email

this tinubu is a guru in this their gutter politics thing

he knows that GEJ has strong ties with Pastor Adeboye so choosing the prof serves to neutralise that edge at least in the eyes of the members

laBarca:
Alhaji Ahmed Tinubu, you may not be perfect but you have shown example of how to be a servant-leader and relegating personal interest to satisfy national interest. God bless You Sir...


Long Live The Jagaban

Comments like this make me shakes my head...........

Simple political aritheimetic you can't sole

Tinubu wanted Osinbajo in, but he knew Oshomole and particularly Amechi will fight against that so what did he do' the crooked fox also came out to say he is interested.........is that not super strange as it is ahainst the. Fundamental winning political configuration Christian-Christian or Muslim-muslim remains a No-no.......

He only claimed intest in the VP so that he could nuetralise Amechi and the consusus will be that let him Tinubu and anechi back out for a nuetral person, that was how the Frof, tinubu's initial man came back


And you are here praising the king Looter of lagos to the skies

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etunoman76:
http://www.punchng.com/news/old-people-cause-of-nigerias-troubles-jonathan/

GEJ nailed it in the head


I support to say NO to old people running tings in this country

courage54:
APC are so bless with great personalities, Professor Osinbajo is a man of repute and he will be an asset to the development of this nation.






For God so loved Nigeria that he spared the life of Gen. Buhari till 2015, that who so ever desires progress and Votes for him may not regret but experience the true meaning of leadership where security, food, employment, zero corruption, transparency and infrastructural development prevails.
The number one problem facing Nigeria today is corruption! Fix corruption, and you fix Nigeria. Jonathan has only encouraged and promoted corruption. The ONLY person that is fearless and would ruthlessly cleans this country is General Mohammadu Buhari... Those who hate him have no idea why they do...he remains the most incorruptible ... Fearless... Patriotic and principled leadership figure remaining in Nigeria today. Nigeria may not be able to have the likes of Buhari in another 50years time.
Is only a fool that will continue to do things the same way and expect a different result, So Let's Make The Right Choice.

God Bless Nigeria
God Bless Niger-Delta
Sai Buhari

Before You criticise me am also a christian but I must not let my religion clown my sense of reasoning.

There goes another naïve buharist........one of them who presume that Nigeria's problem is that of having a believed 'clean' individual rather than an sound instituitions

nesta007:
Lies from the pit of HELL. This is alagbole akute Ogun state not lagos state. All these medias though. I hope the lagos state government see this and Sue for lying. Awon oniro oshi all they give is misinformation. Mscheww Punch this is a no no

IS OGUN STATE NOT apc

PC members have shown greater determination in attacking the Nigerian government than in attacking the Boko Haram.
On September 24, 2014, Atiku Abubakar of the APC declared at the Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja that he was running to be president of Nigeria. The occasion was without incident. This was followed on October 15, 2014 by Muhammadu Buhari of the APC who declared in Eagle’s Square, Abuja that he was also running for president. Again, the occasion was without incident.
But on November 10, 2014, the day before Goodluck Jonathan declared that he was running for president at Eagle Square in Abuja, the Boko Haram struck. 50 students were killed and about 80 injured in a suicide bombing in Potiskum, Yobe State. This shows in clear and unambiguous terms that the Boko Haram has no problem with either Atiku or Buhari running for president. But it is against Goodluck Jonathan.
Brotherhood of insurgency
The “coincidence” between Boko Haram assaults and PDP events and their lack of incidence at APC events has become a standard operational procedure. On September 26, 2014, Rabiu Kwankwaso, PDP governor of Kano State, and four other PDP governors, defected to the APC. Bombs did not explode as a result of this. However, on April 14, 2014, the day before Ibrahim Skekarau, former governor of Kano State was welcomed by Jonathan to the PDP at a rally in Kano after defecting from the APC; over 80 people were killed by the Boko Haram with a bomb planted at the Nyanya motor park near Abuja.
It is incontestable that the Boko Haram script against the PDP aligns conveniently with the interests of the APC. Indeed, instead of condemning the Boko Haram for killing innocent Nigerians, the APC seizes on these murderous incidents to attack the PDP for not cancelling the events both the Boko Haram and the APC are determined should not hold.
Accordingly, Lai Mohammed, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, accused the president of dancing “Azonto” on the occasion of Shekarau’s defection rally instead of being concerned about the killings. When the bombs went off the day before Jonathan’s declaration of his candidacy, Mohammed again declared as “utterly insensitive and absolutely callous” the decision of the president not to cancel the scheduled event; saying the president was: “dancing on the graves of the students.” But as any right-thinking person knows, cancelling the event would have been tantamount to succumbing to Boko Haram blackmail.
APC readily exploits national calamities in order to score cheap political points. This leads to the conclusion that it is either complicit in the attacks or insensitive to them. The APC does not seem to believe it can win the coming election against a sitting president and an entrenched PDP. Therefore, its assignment is that of an unscrupulous mischief-maker that would do anything and use anything to undermine the government of Nigeria.
Who is afraid of Goodluck Jonathan running for president in 2015? Two main protagonists have a consanguinity of interests: the Boko Haram and the APC.
Boko Haram apologists
There can be no question that the interests of the Boko Haram and those of the APC are in tandem; leading observers like Femi Fani-Kayode to declare that as the IRA (Irish Republican Army) was the armed wing of the political Sinn Fein in Britain; so can the Boko Haram be described as the armed wing of the APC in Nigeria. As a confirmation of this, APC members have shown greater determination in attacking the Nigerian government than in attacking the Boko Haram. However, now that they are fishing for votes nationally, some of their prominent Northern figures are now attacking the insurgents.
Let us take, for example, the position of the presidential candidate they have finally chosen; three-time loser Muhammadu Buhari. For years Buhari, who often betrays inadvertently his true colours as a sectional and sectarian Northern champion, was an ardent apologist for the Boko Haram. In an interview with Kaduna’s Radio Liberty in November 2012, Buhari demanded that the Federal Government should stop the clampdown of Boko Haram insurgents, insisting they should be given special treatment like the Niger Delta militants.
These are Buhari’s words: “They (the Niger Delta militants) were trained in some skills and were given employment, but the ones in the north were being killed and their houses were being demolished. They are different issues. What brought this? It is injustice.” That same year, Buhari said he does believe there is a real movement called Boko Haram and claimed the federal government of Nigeria was: “the biggest Boko Haram.”
Wole Olaniyi was a fly in the wall at a meeting in Kano Government House in 2013 designed to persuade rebel PDP governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, to decamp to the APC. Assuming that only Northerners were present, Buhari declared the Boko Haram was a “strategic plan” by the government of Goodluck Jonathan to “destroy the North.” When Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states, Buhari came out against it. Seeing the conflict with Northern goggles, Buhari claimed Goodluck Jonathan was using the insurgency as an excuse to wage war on the North.
Attempt at volte face
It is necessary to remind Nigerians of this position of Buhari because now that he is shopping for Christian and Southern votes, he is singing a different tune. He is now smooth-talking Nigerians; naming Christians before Moslems in his speeches, and putting the South before the North in them. But let us not forget that Buhari was so clearly identified as a friend of the Boko Haram that, in November 2012, Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulaziz, the second-in-command to Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, in announcing a readiness to negotiate a ceasefire with the Nigerian government, named Buhari as one of the few “trusted” Nigerians it would be ready to negotiate with.
Buhari’s blatant sectarianism has not gone unnoticed. Ayo Oritsejafor, president of the PFN (Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria) was so incensed by Buhari’s defense of the Boko Haram insurgency that he asked that Buhari should be arrested. Oritsejafor said: “This can only mean that the retired General is a fanatic. He is, therefore, the prime leader of this religious and blood-thirsty sect called Boko Haram, a movement that is based on a warped interpretation of a strict adherence to force people of other religions into Islam. This is why I call for the arrest of Buhari now. Buhari is a big security risk to Nigeria’s corporate existence.”
Truly progressive Northerners also sought to distance themselves from Buhari’s sectarianism. Jibril Mamman Vatsa, spokesman of the Arewa Youths Forum, said: “Buhari does not speak for all Northern leaders. His statements on Boko Haram exist as part of a continuum of Northern leaders’ responses to the problem, which have ranged from proposing dialogue to condemning the FG’s approach to, if some allegations are to be believed, actively supporting the movement. If the Boko Haram members are becoming more daring by the day, it is because of the support given to them by some highly placed persons.”
Refurbished image
However, now that Buhari is gunning again for the presidency and seeking votes from a national constituency, the need has now arisen for him to tamp down his pro Boko Haram rhetoric.
Therefore, in an about turn, he is now pretending to be a big critic of the Boko Haram. He says: “These people, whose actions are not sanctioned by any religion and who subscribe to no known values, will not succeed. Our people are resilient and strong, and our nation is capable, based on our rich human and material resources, of successfully tackling these nihilists. We will together see the end of them and their reign of terror.”
Buhari’s new stance should not be believed. A chameleon can only change its colour; it cannot change its shape. Buhari would now like us to see him as the Messiah who would bring the Boko Haram insurgency, which he said was a Southern ruse, under control. To do this successfully, Buhari needed to be refurbished as an enemy of the Boko Haram. Into this new playbook came the alleged attack on his life by the insurgents.
APC supporters should forgive me for being totally cynical about this. The so-called attack on Buhari’s life benefits no one but Buhari himself because it fits into his new script of trying to distance himself from the Boko Haram. Buhari does not normally go around in a bullet-proof car. But quite conveniently, when he was attacked, he had borrowed one especially on that occasion. His car was not bombed but sprayed with bullets. Some people died from the attendant bomb blast, but not a single one of Buhari’s aides died. In any case, the Boko Haram never declared they were the ones after Buhari.
APC blunder
Rather than condemn Buhari’s attackers, the APC was more interested in using the incident to absolve itself of complicity in the spate of terrorist attacks in Nigeria. Lai Mohammed issued a statement saying: “If indeed the APC is behind Boko Haram and General Buhari is a sympathiser of the evil group, as the Federal Government wants the world to believe, could it be that the insurgents do not know their leaders or sympathisers, assuming they are behind the attacks? Whatever happens now, the satanic and repulsive theory of the PDP-led Federal Government that the opposition APC is using Boko Haram to truncate the administration of Jonathan is up in flames.”
Lai Mohammed blundered with this statement. It easily leads to the conclusion that the whole point of the attack on Buhari was to launder the image of the APC and distance it from the Boko Haram. This was quickly recognized by the PDP.
Olisa Metuh, the PDP national publicity secretary said: “We are shocked, disappointed and disgusted that the APC leaders chose to use the ugly development to embark on image laundering. Nigerians now ponder; they ask, was the attack a setup aimed at scoring some political points? Or could it be APC’s desperate strategy of trying to disentangle itself from the internationally acknowledged link with terrorists and possibly undermine the planned probe of their involvement by the United Kingdom?”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/afraid-goodluck-jonathan-2/#sthash.0QZag9l6.dpuf

Lumyboi:
For you to say gej is doing his best ...I bliv u v always bn a fan of gej. Educate me on sm of his best pls. In terms of corruption which is a major problem in naija. With the Tinubu u called a thief I agree, bt what has ur gej done about it. No1 has bn convicted of corruption in his 4yrs does dt mean Nigerians r suddenly saints ? Bros please b realistic. U v a right to vote any1 bt u cnt confuse us. Any other person but Jona n his goons abeg

i am not a member of TAN or even from the Niger Delta; GEJ hasnt done anything directly about corruption that i will say any day anytime i live him to his conscience.................i am not trying to confuse anybody but rather trying to strike up a dialogue that cant permit us to look at the deeper issues about this country and our collective future once and for all

The moment this politicians understand that the people are no longer going to be hood winked as usual they will come out more sincere;infact am happy GEJ is facing such a great opposition like neveras this will help him sit up and the country will be better for it

PassingShot:
Aburo, forget this going round and round please.

It is only a stupid set of people that will continue to do the same thing over and over again and expect different outcome.

I know Buhari is not the perfect man for the job but most of the tried younger ones like GEJ have failed us woefully. Or is it Bankole you want to talk about? Or James Ibori? Or Alamieseigha? Or Igbinedion? Or Uduagan? And definitely not GEJ! So tell me who you think can help change the course of our sinking ship destined for destruction?

Even the foolish Nigerians know that our number one problem is corruption and insurgency which Jonathan has proved over and over again to be incompetent to tackle.

I am more than convinced that Buhari is not seeking presidency for his own sake but for the sake of rescuing Nigeria. For if he were doing it for himself, he had ample opportunities in the past to enrich himself as IBB, AbdulSalami, Abacha and the rest,

I leave you with the quotes from his acceptance speech:

"My call to you is not to realise the personal fulfilment of one man. This Common Cause is nothing less than the love for our nation and concern for its present condition. And a resolve to make things better for Nigeria".

"My choice and my colleagues choice and wish is that we progress together. Preserving the nation’s future is a scared obligation to all of us in this party. Leaders should be wholly committed to fulfilling this obligation otherwise they have no business being leaders. Sadly, the current administration does not believe in this obligation. By their actions they are leading us to calamity".

And for people like you, he equally said "When all is said and done, let it be written that Muhammadu Buhari gave his all for this nation".

i assume you know how old i am to call me aburo but then let me state here clearly for the very fact that buhari is rolling with known thieves says a lot of his disposition; he should have doggedly stuck to his CPC and then i know he isnt desperate

did you think that his sponsors wont to get their campaign money back if he should assume leadership; do you think they wont impose their cronies to conduit funds to them? he has already given the VP slot to Tinubu to fill, is this not indeed a sign of what is yet to come?

Corruption is in APC just as it is in PDP; GEJ is doing his best despite the huge insurgency distractions which are possibly sponsored by those who feel Aso rock is their right right because they are more numerous in population

you guys dont know how malicious this politicians are, you just swallow all their speeches that is why they keep on looking down on you all.

All these Buharists have a deep seated fear of walking that long road to freedom, they are looking for quick fixes and Messiah. The Young people you listed looted true, just as the old who should no better are looting.............yet not all of the young looted, Governor Duke was cleared by EFCC for instance but Duke was not just a 'clean' man who did not touch his people money but he brought creative thinking to his state.......thats what am talking about.......

GEJ could be misappropriating but he is far better than the APC men whose ultimate aim is to get into power by all means and you cant see the deceit because you refused to think out of the box....so if Buhari dies today does it mean Nigeria is doomed?? can we stop building our future on personalities rather than on institutions and ideologies?

PassingShot:
Isn't it funny that you accuse Buhari's supporters of lacking in clear arguments but you are OK to spew the line in bold as a clear argument?

How can one win an argument with a bigoted ethnocentric saTANs and TANoids?

Let me try with this sha:

1. Buhari was governor of Borno state under Obasanjo regime and later minister of petroleum.

2. Buhari birthed and supervised the establishment of the existing refineries in NIGERIA.

3. He was head of state between 1983-1985 (a period of 20 months).
There was no religious crisis while he was head of state.

4. He reduced inflation from 23% to 4% by fiscal discipline and home grown economic team (not achieved under any other era).

5. J.J. Rawlings of Ghana took over 2 years before him and killed all the corrupt leaders, while Buhari only sentenced the corrupt leaders in Nigeria to prison.

6. Under his watch as PTF chairman, what he did in road construction in that short period hasn’t been matched by 12 years of the PDP. Hospitals and universities around the country never witnessed as much benefits as they got from the PTF from any government after or before his time.

7. He refused to collect allowance while serving as chairman of the PTF because he said he was already drawing a pension from government, his conscience would not allow him to draw another salary from the purse of same government.

8. He returned excess money spent to purse of government on his return from oversea training as a military officer

9. He is the only former head of state that does not own property or land in Abuja.

10. Buhari personally recommended late Dora Akunyili to OBJ because of her diligence during PTF interaction.
Every attempt to rubbish him through probes in time past ended up vindicating him! The man who was asked by OBJ to take over PTF before it was scrapped with the aim of indicting Buhari ended up being prosecuted for misappropriating $100 million of PTF funds!

11. His personal driver and cook of many years are christians
He has OPENLY challenged those who accuse him of religious fundamentalism to come out and show proof. No one has till today taken up the challenge.


12. He is the ONLY politician in northern Nigeria today who fills rallies without renting a crowd!
People who know him (including pastor Bakare) have said of him……” All I need from Buhari is his word, I can take it to the bank”.

If honesty and probity are the things you want for Nigeria, now is the time to choose right.
”Conscience is an opened wound, only truth can heal it”

This is the first rejoinder to my comments on my posts.............perhaps the point of him being an old man go to you but then i have nothing against the elderlym where my dad still alive he would be in his seventies and i wont chide him for that

i dont dispute that buhari has his credentials but the process he has gone about it lately leaves much to be desired; we carry on as if buhari is the only hope of nigeria and that once he comes to power nigeria would become first world under 8 years.

He has done his bit for Nigeria on a personal and direct level i believe he should step aside and let someone fresh to carry on, his continued insistence on himself as the only credible option for Nigeria is quire unbecoming

APC is only using him to ger into power and maybe just as buhari is inwardly planning to yse APC to satiaye his hynger to get to power as though his lives depended on it

he recommended the likes of Dora who did extraordinarily well, could he not find someone else............personally i believe a BUHARI riding on the horse of APC has lost his virilty, purity and conscience

banki:
@op I am particularly irritated when you and your cohorts try to use the violence after the 2011 elections to score cheap political points.....
The corpers that died may their souls rest in peace its the duty of the security agencies to find their killers and jail them, I am aware that a committee was set up to look into the incidence, the committee gave their findings and gave a white paper to the president..... NOTHING HAPPENED AS USUAL.....

The same vigour you use to cry about the youth you claim you are one off, why don't you cry that one man duped thousands of Nigerian youth and killed about 20 of them across the federation under the guise of giving them jobs in the immigration service.....
Does it even bother you that the man is a serving minister, I didn't here you scream and open threads for someone who clearly has defrauded Nigerian youth of over 2billion naira and killed them in the process, the president came to the hospital and promised that each of the victims relatives will be given two automatic slots in the service as if that will help bring back the dead..... but then again that hasn't even been done.

Those are real issues except you are a paid goon, you will see through your nose that enough is enough its ok not to like GMB no one is forcing you to but stop writing and pretending as if you care about the dead, when you don't.....

Nigerian youth just love playing second fiddle from the stands as spectators when they can be the actors, but we are just too terrified at the idea,,,,,,,,,,we forever deem ourselves too irrelevant especially when our future is concerned

There is clearly an aristocracy is our polity and now we want to compound it with Gerontocracy...........crazy

i woild not hold brief fro GEJ regarding the loss of lives in the imigration exercise nor will i say his response was adequare; if you pay attention to my opening post you will see that i was just pointing out that buhari is far from flawless and his new found allies are just the same stuff as the PDP

i insisted that we dont want old people leading us anymore as if we the youths don't matter........they can advise and guide but lets us take the driver's seat afterall its our future that is at stake not theirs anymore

PassingShot:
Let me help you OP:



First of, record has it that Buhari never wanted to romance with the corrupt and that's the reason he was not supported in his previous attempts. How many Nigerians voted for him in 2007 and 2011 when he refused those you tag as corrupt?

As things are now, he doesn't need to prosecute past incidents of corruption but just to put a stop and move on. That much he has revealed in a recent interview.

You say GEJ has no Godfather but he has Godfriends and Godassociates who steal us blind and he is unable to do anything about it. It is also on record that to GEJ "stealing is not corruption"



Pure sentiments and conjectures sold to you by the saTANs.

All the lies they put up against Buhari cannot be substantiated. Do you know that Buhari sued Ruben Abati who said in an interview that he was responsible for the statement of "making Nigeria ungovernable for GEJ"? Guess what, it took begging and pleading by the presidency to make him withdraw the false and wicked lie with the Guardian newspaper writing a well circulated apology to the People's General.

If you rely on the same lies by the TANoids to paint him black, you help his cause the more.



On your point no. 3, I say bring evidence or STFU.

On no. 4, is it wrong to say that he will end Boko Haram if he becomes the president? Wait, how old are you?
You must be very naïve to even think that Buhari will offer to help without his help being sought and especially with a presidency that has wickedly labeled him as a sympathizer of Boko Haram.



On No. 5, Is it too late that his plans have not been released? Did you read his acceptance speech or you're just too biased to see his 5 point agenda?

Now I know that I have wasted my time to respond to your nonsense you put up here because most of the rubbish are based on sentiments. I thought you were real.

If every Nigerian youth reasons like you, then yours is worse than the "wasted generation".

“God willing, by 2015, something will happen. They either conduct a free and fair election or they go a very disgraceful way. If what happened in 2011 (alleged rigging) should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood,’’ Buhari reportedly told the party members who paid him a courtesy visit in Kaduna on Monday.

http://www.punchng.com/news/buhari-under-fire-over-threat-of-bloodshed/

if you read my post thoroughly with an objective stand you would see where i am headed but because you, like many other desperate and impressionable Nigerians think buhari with his new found pretenders in the APC are the elixir that will cure Nigeria of its maladies.




all your rejoinders are bereft of clear arguments because you just want change without being part of it.............how can an old man lead Nigeria, especially who was once there...........

he is an elder statesman he should remain that

perhaps you have lost the hope or yet to conceive the dream that one day a fellow youth, who has a future ahead of him or her rule, will legislate laws and govern states and even the federation and you rather choose a man in his seventies to chart your tomorrow for you,,this is very tragic that you feel yourself or your peers unworthy to occupy leadership positions

Lumyboi:
Only if u can be more realistic and objective most of ur points are baseless and can't b substantiated. Can u prove all dis tinz u r sayin? Well u said y u wnt vote em
U mean to tel me pdp chiefs are not criminals? Ridiculous.
Can anyone get to the level of contesting with an incumbent with any real chance in dis Nigeria if u don't v backin of d rich( n most of d rich in Nigeria are corrupt criminals b). U shld be more realistic Mr
On ur fourth and fifth points, read them again if they mke sense to u as an objective person. Wait in ur awse for em to come give u plans he has.
Imo al I want is change. V had Enuf of dis useless grp called pdp

the PDP and APC are sides of the same coin............but dont be too eager to shout change without being mindful of the directtion.........

APC jeep talking as though they are saints when we know they are not

Lumyboi:
Only if u can be more realistic and objective most of ur points are baseless and can't b substantiated. Can u prove all dis tinz u r sayin? Well u said y u wnt vote em
U mean to tel me pdp chiefs are not criminals? Ridiculous.
Can anyone get to the level of contesting with an incumbent with any real chance in dis Nigeria if u don't v backin of d rich( n most of d rich in Nigeria are corrupt criminals b). U shld be more realistic Mr
On ur fourth and fifth points, read them again if they mke sense to u as an objective person. Wait in ur awse for em to come give u plans he has.
Imo al I want is change. V had Enuf of dis useless grp called pdp

which of the points are baseless.......i believe you didn't school in France after the 2011 elections............

i didnt canonize GEJ i only tried to point out that the reasons why buhari should not become the next president becos that will ne going backwards; GEJ is only a stage in us moving fprward and moreover the power rotation thing must stop.........a prosperous nigeria is what we want not the chop i ci chop mentality enshrined in the power rotation philosophy

seankafor:
True talk but i guess if a buhari supporter comes out to give his own opinion. Then we can judge from there. I hate one sided judgement

i think they have been here but rushed out to prepare an adequate rejoinder hopefully cos all i see here is just emotional GMB followers and sympathisers cos my arguments is not about GEJ or Buhari as the Messiah but as what their candidature represents and portends for the Nigerian youth

Nigerian youths are not looking out for their interests anymore but are easily swayed by sentimental arguments

any movement that relagates youths should be shot down and buhari is such an example