Read, Read and Read and stop beating about the Bush:

[size=20pt]Typical Nairaland Ethnic bigotry . BUHARI Never said that !! It was denied years ago but resurfaced 10 years later in order to discredit the only honest and selfless Nigerian in the field of high level Politics. Reasons ; He is a Northerner and a Muslim so must be blackmailed ,despiced and hated!! With this attitude Nigeria will never develop.!! Sorry!! [/size] [size=20pt]

Truth is better !

This is an old story. He himself have explained it. He did not say the whole of Nigeria. What he said id that sharia wshould be practiced in its totality in the areas where it was intriduced.

Use your brain and check whether it is impossible to introduce sharia in Enugu or in any other christian dominated state. Won't it pass through the National Assembly b4 ut can become law in 9ja? Use you BRAIN pls.

you can call buhari a religious jingoist and fundamentalist but the truth is that he is not an extremist. i am an igbo but i know that he is the one that will save nigeria from this hell pdp have put ja into. i mean high level of under development and yper corrupt nation as other nations use to take us.

He did not implement Sharia when he had absolute power as military head of state, tackling corruption and the economy was his focus.

Wise up people - corrupt people (including journalists) are petrified of the anti-corruption president that is Buhari, which is why they twisting the truth.

Mr. Buhari, Nigeria is not Iran, Iraq or Saudi Arabia, SHARIA Can't work here

For those supporting Buhari, why not support Ribadu? Wait, , just think about it for 1 second.

Buhari is tried and tested,

He was not selective in who was prosecuted for corrruption as Ribadu was,

I am totally shocked that some people are of the opinion that Buhari might have changed since making this remark.
Even if he said it as a student, it is a very potent reason note to vote him in. let him go and contest in saudi Arabia.
He has not and will never change, just waiting to be given the opportunity, but he will never ever inhabit Aso rock.

^^Iam totally shocked that people like you cannot understand that Buhari never made those remarks.

Buhari is not a religious bigot, his wife is a born-again christian for christ sake!

He never imposed sharia when he had absolute power as head of state, why now?


People need to have reasoned thinking not accept everything that his corrupt enemies (many of whom are journalists ) tell you.

Do you own research

oge4real:

I am totally shocked that some people are of the opinion that Buhari might have changed since making this remark.
Even if he said it as a student, it is a very potent reason note to vote him in. let him go and contest in saudi Arabia.
He has not and will never change, just waiting to be given the opportunity, but he will never ever inhabit Aso rock.

Now there's a good idea, but even Saudi Arabia, with its regular Friday after-prayer public decapitations, might yet be a bit too modern of a society to accept a blithering neanderthal like Ayatollah Buhari.  They probably require mullahs who can read and write there, which would of course instantly disqualify this particular specimen.

One of those dusty, goat-infested hell-holes that ends with the suffix -ISTAN could probably tolerate such an intellectually challenged cretin as our dear little Ayatollah.   How about Tajik-ISTAN or some remote village in Afghan-ISTAN, where there might still be job openings for low-paid street executioners ?  They might take Buhari there if he fixed his teeth, but then again, maybe not ha ha ha.

Jakumo:


Alhaji Dikrot,  there are few things in life from which I derive more pleasure and satisfaction than having wanton, gratuitous, safe sex with unmarried women between the ages of 18 and 23.  Why just last night I had the privilege of boning a beautiful, curvaceous and creative young women in the back of my pickup truck out in the middle of a huge grassy field under the night sky.  As we simultaneously attained Nirvana after heated and urgent exchanges of carnal knowledge, I found myself howling like a demented coyote at the full moon.

Since that memorable and eventful night of debauchery did NOT occur behind closed doors, could you please be so kind as to re-assure me that I do not "deserve to be punished", as do other sinners who fornicate in hidden rooms.  I ask this because I do not take kindly to being "punished" for what I do with any consenting adult single woman of my choice, and for this reason keep a loaded shotgun handy on such occasions, to discourage un-invited guests at the venue.  PLEASE don't tell me you're a Peeping Tom, Alhaji, for that would really sadden me.  So far, I had thought much better of you than that.

And one more thing.  If you hate sex so much, how come you got three wives and 15 children ?

Gotta love jakumo

How far my follow Nigeria,i had bring good thing to you.Free call is here again but only for glo to glo.here is my number 08152046990.

cap28:

no problem bros i will have a look at it after ive responded to one of your posts on this thread

We await your contribution on this issue with keen anticipation,

^^^Young man stop regurgitating what you've already said over & over again.Or are you bereft of ideas like your mentor,is this how you intend to sell the candidacy of Sheikh Muhammadu Buhari?You need to do better than this.In any event,i'd advice you not to dissipate your energy.Buhari's presidency desire is a dead end.End of

@cold
The truth never changes

Here something different for you:

Did you know that Buhari refused to devalue the Naira?

when he was overthrown 1Naira would fetch approx 1Dollar?

I am not a young man, at 46 years I was old enough to witness the positive effect of Buhari's anti-corruption adminstration.

Liars. Una don start abi? We dont believe in what he says thru the press. They are not his friends. Provide us with television footage or a tape then we believe u. Otherwise shut up. Fool.

The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the-scenes assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order.

Buhari � need one remind anyone – was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry.

Prominent against these charges was an act that amounted to nothing less than judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths – Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three Ogedengbe – was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc. Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear.

The execution of that youthful innocent for so he was, since the punishment did not exist at the time of commission – was nothing short of premeditated murder, for which the perpetrators should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity. Are we truly expected to forget this violation of our entitlement to security as provided under existing laws? And even if our sensibilities have become blunted by succeeding seasons of cruelty and brutality, if power itself had so coarsened the sensibilities also of rulers and corrupted their judgment, what should one rightly expect after they have been rescued from the snare of power. At the very least, a revaluation, leading hopefully to remorse, and its expression to a wronged society. At the very least, such a revaluation should engender reticence, silence. In the case of Buhari, it was the opposite. Since leaving office he has declared in the most categorical terms that he had no regrets over this murder and would do so again.

Human life is inviolate. The right to life is the uniquely fundamental right on which all other rights are based. The crime that General Buhari committed against the entire nation went further however, inconceivable as it might first appear. That crime is one of the most profound negations of civic being.  Not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule. Let us constantly applaud our media those battle scarred professionals did not completely knuckle down. They resorted to cartoons and oblique, elliptical references to sustain the people’s campaign for a time-table to democratic rule. Overt agitation for a democratic time table however remained rigorously suppressed  military dictatorship, and a specifically incorporated in Buhari and Idiagbon was here to stay. To deprive a people of volition in their own political direction is to turn a nation into a colony of slaves. Buhari enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition.

So Tai Solarin is already forgotten? Tai who stood at street corners, fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up the gauntlet where the media had dropped it. Tai who was incarcerated by that regime and denied even the medication for his asthmatic condition? Tai did not ask to be sent for treatment overseas; all he asked was his traditional medicine that had proved so effective after years of struggle with asthma!

Nor must we omit the manner of Buhari coming to power and the pattern of his corrective rule. Shagari’s NPN had already run out of steam and was near universally detested except of course by the handful that still benefited from that regime of profligacy and rabid fascism. Responsibility for the national condition lay squarely at the door of the ruling party, obviously, but against whom was Buharis coup staged? Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagaris government but against the opposition. The head of government, on whom primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cozy house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-kiri prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and/or responsibility.

And then the cascade of escapes of the wanted, and culpable politicians. Manhunts across the length and breadth of the nation, roadblocks everywhere and borders tight as steel zip locks. Lo and behold, the chairman of the party, Chief Akinloye, strolled out coolly across the border. Richard Akinjide, Legal Protector of the ruling party, slipped out with equal ease. The Rice Minister, Umaru Dikko, who declared that Nigerians were yet to eat from dustbins – escaped through the same airtight dragnet. The clumsy attempt to crate him home was punishment for his ingratitude, since he went berserk when, after waiting in vain, he concluded that the coup had not been staged, after all, for the immediate consolidation of the party of extreme right-wing vultures, but for the military hyenas.

The case of the overbearing Secretary-General of the party, Uba Ahmed, was even more noxious. Uba Ahmed was out of the country at the time. Despite the closure of the Nigerian airspace, he compelled the pilot of his plane to demand special landing permission, since his passenger load included the almighty Uba Ahmed. Of course, he had not known of the change in his status since he was airborne.  The delighted airport commandant, realizing that he had a much valued fish swimming willingly into a waiting net, approved the request. Uba Ahmed disembarked into the arms of a military guard and was promptly clamped in detention.  Incredibly, he vanished a few days after and reappeared in safety overseas. Those whose memories have become calcified should explore the media coverage of that saga. Buhari was asked to explain the vanished act of this much prized quarry and his response was one of the most arrogant levity. Coming from one who had shot his way into power on the slogan of displine, it was nothing short of impudent.

Shall we revisit the tragicomic series of trials that landed several politicians several lifetimes in prison? Recall, if you please, the judicial processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin.  He was arraigned and tried before Buhari’s punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning an election and refusing to knuckle under Shagari’s reign of terror.

The conduct of the Buhari regime after his coup was not merely one of double, triple, multiple standards but a cynical travesty of justice. Audu Ogbeh, currently chairman of the Action Congress was one of the few figures of rectitude within the NPN. Just as he has done in recent times with the PDP, he played the role of an internal critic and reformer, warning, dissenting, and setting an example of probity within his ministry. For that crime he spent months in unjust incarceration. Guilty by association? Well, if that was the motivating yardstick of the administration of the Buhari justice, then it was most selectively applied.  The utmost severity of the Buhari-Idiagbon justice was especially reserved either for the opposition in general, or for those within the ruling party who had showed the sheerest sense of responsibility and patriotism.

Shall I remind this nation of Buhari’s deliberate humiliating treatment of the Emir of Kano and the Oni of Ife over their visit to the state of Israel? I hold no brief for traditional rulers and their relationship with governments, but insist on regarding them as entitled to all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of any Nigerian citizen. This royal duo went to Israel on their private steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation require the permission  of a head of state to visit a foreign nation that was willing to offer that tourist a visa.?

One is only too aware that some Nigerians love to point to Buhari’s agenda of discipline as the shining jewel in his scrap-iron crown. To inculcate discipline however, one must lead by example, obeying laws set down as guides to public probity. Example speaks louder than declarations, and rulers cannot exempt themselves from the disciplinary strictures imposed on the overall polity, especially on any issue that seeks to establish a policy for public well-being.  The story of the thirty something suitcases it would appear that they were even closer to fifty – found unavoidable mention in my recent memoirs, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DOWN, written long before Buhari became spoken of as a credible candidate.  For the exercise of a changeover of the national currency, the Nigerian borders  air, sea and land  had been shut tight. Nothing was supposed to move in or out, not even cattle egrets.

Yet a prominent camel was allowed through that needles eye. Not only did Buhari dispatch his aide-de-camp, Jokolo later to become an emir -  to facilitate the entry of those cases, he ordered the redeployment as I later discovered – of the Customs Officer who stood firmly against the entry of the contravening baggage. That officer, the incumbent Vice-president is now a rival candidate to Buhari, but has somehow, in the meantime, earned a reputation that totally contradicts his conduct at the time.  Wherever the truth lies, it does not redound to the credibility of the dictator of that time, General Buhari whose word was law, but whose allegiances were clearly negotiable.

On the theme of double, triple, multiple standards in the enforcement of the law, and indeed of the decrees passed by the Buhari regime at the time, let us recall  the notorious case of Triple A Alhaji Alhaji Alhaji, then Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. Who was caught, literally, with his pants down in distant Austria. That was not the crime however, and private conduct should always remain restricted to the domain of private censure. There was no decree against civil servants proving just as hormone driven as anyone else, especially outside the nation’s borders. However, there was a clear decree against the keeping of foreign accounts, and this was what emerged from the Austrian escapade.  Alhaji Alhaji kept, not one, but several undeclared foreign accounts, and he had no business being in possession of the large amount of foreign currency of which he was robbed by his overnight companion. The media screamed for an even application of the law, but Buhari had turned suddenly deaf.

By contrast, Fela Anikulapo languished in goal for years, sentenced under that very draconian decree.  His crime was being in possession of foreign exchange that he had legitimately received for the immediate upkeep of his band as they set off for an international engagement. A vicious sentence was slapped down on Fela by a judge who later became so remorse stricken at least after Buhari’s overthrow that he went to the King of Afro-beat and apologized.

Lesser known was the traumatic experience of the director of an international communication agency, an affiliate of UNESCO.  Akin Fatoyinbo arrived at the airport in complete ignorance of the new currency decree. He was thrown in gaol in especially brutal condition, an experience from which he never fully recovered. It took several months of high-level intervention before that innocent man was eventually freed. These were not exceptional but mere sample cases from among hundreds of others, victims of a decree that was selectively applied, a decree that routinely penalized innocents and ruined the careers and businesses of many.

What else? What does one choose to include or leave out?  What precisely was Ebenezer Babatope’s crime that he should have spent the entire tenure of General Buhari in detention?  Nothing beyond the fact that he once warned in the media that Buhari was an ambitious soldier who would bear watching through the lenses of a coup-detat. Babatope’s father died while he was in Buhari’s custody, the dictator remained deaf to every plea that he be at least released to attend his father’s funeral, even under guard. I wrote an article at the time, denouncing this pointless insensitivity.  So little to demand by a man who was never accused of, nor tried for any crime, much less found guilty.  Such a load of vindictiveness that smothered all traces of basic human compassion deserves no further comment in a nation that values its traditions.

But then, speaking the truth was not what Buhari, as a self-imposed leader, was especially enamoured of enquire of Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor both of whom,  faithful  to their journalistic calling, published nothing but the truth, yet ended up sentenced under Buhari’s decree. Mind you, no one can say that Buhari was not true to his word. shall tamper with the freedom of the press swore the dictator immediately on grabbing office, and this was exactly what he did.  And so on, and on, and on.

The argument of those who say that, by endorsing Buhari, they are settling on someone who can be guaranteed to give Obasanjo and the NPN a good fight, is one of the most depressing excuses I ever encountered for placing a political noose around a nation’s neck. Buhari owes a debt to this nation, not the other way round. If Buhari wishes to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the citizenry whom he has so cruelly wronged, he should first scuttle his ambitions, then place whatever following he has garnered in the meantime at the disposal of a consensus candidate among the opposition. To insist on another taste of power, after such a history of gross abuse of power is an insult to any nation that values freedom and human dignity. Buhari should sit with the opposition and coordinate strategies to defeat the most unscrupulous act of political gerrymandering that, we all know, is about to be inflicted on the nation by a desperate incumbent seeking for a clone to secure his exit from power.  The nation has more than sufficient time and strategic intelligence to organize behind a common choice, publicize his or her qualities and defeat the arrogance of incumbency.

What is being eroded, through the power of suggestion, is a people’s confidence in itself, and this is the beginning of mass suicide. Without that confidence, no powers on high or on earth, external or internal, can rescue the community from both the palpable and symbolic chains of slavery. To invite back into power a man who did so much to destroy a people’s self-esteem, dignity, and faith in law and justice, is a sign of self-abasement, lack of self-esteem, a slave mentality that dooms, not only the present, but succeeding generations.

I wish to declare, unequivocally, that those of my party, the ARP/DFPF shall not participate in such a degrading surrender

Written by the first African Nobel Laureate: Wole Soyinka

http://www.republicreport.com/the-crimes-of-buhari-wole-soyinka/

Brothers and sisters,be wise-be wise

@Cold
Very revealing. I never knew up to half of those facts up there, but from even the little I knew about this buhari, I never considered him a candidate (as usual). The fact remains that he will Never smell the Presidency of this Nation.
Now there is news that he may form an alliance with his 2nd in command in overwhelming failures - atiku.
They will only make real big old fools of their desperate frustrated selves!

@Cold
Very revealing. I never knew up to half of those facts up there, but from even the little I knew about this buhari, I never considered him a candidate (as usual). The fact remains that he will Never smell the Presidency of this Nation.
Now there is news that he may form an alliance with his 2nd in command in overwhelming failures - atiku.
They will only make real big old fools of their desperate frustrated selves!

^^^ they both fail to realise that they are already in a hole and should stop digging

You people can shout all you want, at least the first thing Mallam Sanusi did in 2011 is to develop and approve the frame work for Sharia Banking in Nigeria

Thats a federal "Minister" for you!
A Minister of a Secular Country!!

The next thing he would do is to approve "Federal Funds" for such Banks

Now l understand why he was rabidly hunting those corrupt "Southern/Christian" Bank M.D's so he can see something to pass-on to his Sharia accomplices.

I weak o!

Mr. 'I-will-never-become-Nigeria's-president' Buhari, pls can u do 150million people a favour and get your brain tested?

With all my heart I thank you, Mr. Cold, for once again reminding us about the cold, hard facts carefully listed in the above summation written by Wole Soyinka on the subject of Ayatollah Buhari's life of crime, which entailed both massive theft of state funds, as well as sadistic homicide and Nazi-like oppression of an entire nation.

Ayatollah Buhari's desperate lunge for power all these decades after his greedy predation on the Nigerian state reminds one of the recent return to Haiti of mass-murdering despot "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who, after exhausting his stash of embezzled Haitian state funds while in exile, boldly RETURNED to the scene of his crimes against humanity, where he is ironically now firmly on track to face a criminal trail that COULD ultimately send him to the gallows.

Hopefully in the fullness of time, Ayatollah Buhari will also hang or fry for the murders he committed after grabbing power by force of arms from a duly elected Nigerian government back in the early 1980's.  As I did when Saddam Hussein honored his overdue appointment with the calm hooded hangman in Bhagdad, I will cheer and rejoice when Ayatollah Buhari is called to final account in a similar or perhaps more gruesome manner, to finally right the horrid wrong represented by the entirety of his evil life's work.

Jakumo:

With all my heart I thank you, Mr. Cold, for once again reminding us about the cold, hard facts carefully listed in the above summation written by Wole Soyinka on the subject of Ayatollah Buhari's life of crime, which entailed both massive theft of state funds, as well as sadistic homicide and Nazi-like oppression of an entire nation.

Ayatollah Buhari's desperate lunge for power all these decades after his greedy predation on the Nigerian state reminds one of the recent return to Haiti of mass-murdering despot "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who, after exhausting his stash of embezzled Haitian state funds while in exile, boldly RETURNED to the scene of his crimes against humanity, where he is ironically now firmly on track to face a criminal trail that COULD ultimately send him to the gallows.

Hopefully in the fullness of time, Ayatollah Buhari will also hang or fry for the murders he committed after grabbing power by force of arms from a duly elected Nigerian government back in the early 1980's.  As I did when Saddam Hussein honored his overdue appointment with the calm hooded hangman in Bhagdad, I will cheer and rejoice when Ayatollah Buhari is called to final account in a similar or perhaps more gruesome manner, to finally right the horrid wrong represented by the entirety of his evil life's work.

i thought it was his father Francois'papa doc' Duvalier who was the mass murderer with his voodoo oriented soldiers?

@Cold

Most of ur write up are your personal interpretation of events nobody else saw it that way.

Did Buhari imprison you or your relative?


[size=14pt]Buhari reduced inflation from 24% to 5% in  1.5 years.

Buhari almost stamped out corruption.

Buhari refused to dance to the tune of IMF and Western nations

These 3 facts alone makes him 100 times better than his closest rivals in Nigerian politics[/size]

@ GenBuhari

Forget COLD he is blinded by the same westicoted stereotype hared that has always characterized many on nairaland

Buhari cant do shyte if he is given 100yrs to rule Nigeria. He is a closet islamic fundamentalist/fanatic and for this reason very dangerous man.

He is also an opportunist who found the army as a means not to serve but to realize a very selfish ambition. Buhari spent more than 75% occupying public office even while he was a soldier.

A man of his age and experience who sincerely mean well will stay in the background and offer advice. His persona gives him unbridled access to the seat of power at any time of day. Not Buhari who wants his hands on the till by all means. He his a parasite. He has done nothing all his life to generate wealth but regards his 4 houses and numerous cars as penury.

Buhari is fighting an undeclared war against the south. This can be seen from his actions as PTF chairman. He can strive to be president of North Nigeria. Right now, he stands no chance in hell.