dayokanu:

I have never been to Pastor Bakares church before. If you give me a photo line up without any clue, I wont even recognise him. But I followed his struggle to wrest power from Turai and hand it over to GEJ when the mumu in Aso rock was wearing apron in Turais kitchen

reucom:

So where did you get your facts from

banom:

@ Dayokanu,

You are a very funny guy, you are not even based in Nigeria and you come to the internet to rant Nonsense ,

Buhari a good man ?

I laugh in Katsina , In 2003 APP( Now ANPP) presidential primaries, buhari and his cabal made sure that there was no primary election, all other candidates were intimidated to step down, If you watched the convention, you will see when other candidates like chief Rochas okoroocha was lamenting on the the evil they Buhari and the now late Chuba Okadigbo conspired to do other candidate.

Buhari a good Man ?

I laugh in islamic, The same man who suggested sharia law for our entire nation.

Buhari a good Man ?

The same Coupist who conspired with Ibrahim babangida and Sani Abacha to overthrew the democratically elected president in the early 80s wants us to elect him today as a democratic president of Nigeria.

I weep for Nigeria.

dayokanu:

^^ Is Turai yar Adua his wife? Or wasnt he doing houseboy for Turai before Bakare came to protest and demand his release?

Nigeria is for God? And what is Godly about the union of GEJ, OBJ, Anenih and Akala?

ogb5 (m)
Re: What We Did Not Know About Buhari
« #12 on: February 15, 2011, 09:52 AM »
Quote from: dayokanu on February 15, 2011, 07:01 AM
Vote Buhari.
In 2011, GMB is not alone. He's supported by a team of volunteers online and offline like me, who never voted for him before. We didn't vote for him, because we didn't know. We didn't know that he supervised and birthed our only existing refineries. We didn't know that what he did in road construction while in the PTF hasn't been matched by 12yrs of the PDP, even though we claimed they were lopsided. We didn't know that in his time as head of state he reduced inflation from 23% to 4%, by fiscal discipline and a homegrown economic team (not achieved under any other era, even military). We didn't know that there was no religious crisis while he led. We didn't know that JJ Rawlings of Ghana took over 2yrs before him, and killed all the corrupt leaders, while GMB merely gave his own, long-term jail sentences. We didn't know that the hospitals and universities around the country never witnessed as much benefits they got from the PTF from any government after or before his time. We did not know, that this man haven been in all the oil sectors in Nigeria, has no petrol station, much less a refinery or an oil rig like so many of our leaders. We never voted him, because we did not know.



I am very sure you were either not around when buhari was rulling or too young to understand what was happening then. Buhari as military leader was too ignorant to run a country, as head of PTF buhari was to sectional to run a national organisation like the ptf. If there is a ministry on Northern Nigeria, Buhari might fit in, but I doubt if he can even do a good job in such a ministry. When buhari was ruling as head of state, Nigerians had to queue up for days to get essential commodities, and what were the essential commodities then, Omo (soap), rice, bread and vegetable oil. People collapsed and died from hunger and exhaustion from those queues, offcourse you were too young to notice.

The man crumbled Nigeria economy in a few weeks on entering. Nigerians generally do not commit suicide, but during Buhari regime, Nigerians were commiting suicide. Soldiers trampled on peoples rights, flogging people on the street, breaking into departmental shops and forcing the owners to sell their goods below their cost price, what a way to bring down inflation. Ofcourse the departmental stores like Kingsway left, and were replaced by kiosks. What also left was foreign confidence in the Nigeria as a country, no one wanted to risk coming to a place were the govt can trample on their rights, and the result today is very high unemployment because of lack of foreign investment beside oil exploration.

Buhari is a dictator and tribal leader.

His period as head of PTF was very unfortunate. He was among those who asked for ptf to be established just because ompadec was establish to use 1.5% of oil derivation money for the Niger delta. As head of ptf, Buhari installed project billboards in the south and did projects in the north. What a silly and sectional thing to do. He is among those who for decades, did not believe that the Niger delta needed extra money to counter the effect of oil exploration and just because ompadec got 1.5% derivation fund to cater for the oil producing communities, they founded PTF for the northerners. Nigeria does not need leaders who think of what their region can get from the nation, rather those who think of what their region can contribute to the overall development of the nation.

Nigeria does not need buhari

right now let him meet the northerners to vote for him, southerners are not in thesame country with him and he should not ask for southern vote.

THe president nigerian needs is the one who will see the who country as his constituent, not tribal, religious or sectional leaders.

Buhari should contest as head of ACF not as president of Nigeria.

Kpac:

I'm known to watch more and closely, but talk in a few times in my life.

I've closely monitored the revolution and people's thought on their presidential candidates.

I wount support anybody , at least not for now, cos there are still enough time for more truths to unveil about our supposedly "messiahs" contesting for president.

By now everyone should have a preferred candidate, and i find it so insulting to cast down someone's most cherished candidate after so much personal thought and conviction.

But just a few questions for now,

1. Why are the people known and proved to be corrupt leaders, individuals strongly supporting GEJ ?

2. Why are people with documented, silenced and unsolved criminal cases the core supporters of GEJ that is sweet talking everywhere he went ?

3. In states where there are unresolved cased of 2 speakers, 2 deputy Govts etc, why will GEJ visits such states and pretend as if he knows nothing about their struggles and leave them in the same condition ?

4. Why would our culture, religious crises and critics,  Morality, Respect for each other and our lives as a people in Nigeria suddenly be negatively affected in GEJ's one year as president.

5. But why would every governor do whatever he feels like as if We have a DISABLED PRESIDENT.

If Jonathan visits the Association of Vulgarizers tomorrow, what he'll say is that, he realized that to achieve the Vision 20-20, Vulgarizers have to be carried along and he intends to make their industry an important one in his reign if elected. These sweet talks cannot fools again, i think.

Things have become so worse in the country, traders sell goods at any price they feel like, police harass anybody they feel like, Crises in different states, Kidnapping of notable personalities in Nollywood [/b]and not one talk on such matters by the president. ABA !

[b]Ribadu did a lot, remarkable thing when he was in charge of EFCC, no one can talk that away, BUT leading 140 Miliion people living in 36 states is not the same. A good class captain in school doesn't guarantee a good Football team captain : 2 Different experience.

I would prefer he gets more involved in more federal issues before he aspires for President, Moreover Tinubu is showing some PRIDE traits these days to make me wonder if he would be able to contain himself if he gets more successful than he is.

Buhari, has been there, we all know, he has survived all these years without any bad record or corruption affiliated matter, That i must say is very rare in Nigeria. Even the popular Soyinka cannot boast of such neutral record of discipline and principle in life. But i would need more proofs, like a scene in the Mr Bones film, i would need him to talk more for me to know what is in heart.

Our next president lies in our hands, OBAMA [/b]became president because even though [b]BUSH [/b]was supporting his opponent, Americans believe the power lies with them and with them alone. So someone might need to tell GEJ that power does not lie with the Governors promising him 100% votes from their states.

No one should believe GEJ would win anyway ! No. He can in the past but not now. We are more exposed now. We all just need to enlighten the mass that are not as exposed like us before the greedy leaders get to them first.

I would go to the villages seldom visited to campaign for my eventual candidate. I would do it vigorously like the Americans did it, with the passion and power.

But you can be rest assured i am not in support of PDP any longer. We have been faithful to them and their candidates for the past [b]12 years, we made sure their party's presidential representatives won the elections just to secure their continuous implementation of their promised vision BUT situation in many areas remain same. What else would GEJ say ? Ajaokuta was in that same state before your party took over 12 years ago and you are not ashamed to go to that same site and repeat an updated version of promise to the same grounded industry for 12 years. ABA !

Obasanjo told us in 1999, when sardine was still 50 naira, when peak milk was 45 naira, when my NEPA bill was 300 naira, when a 3 BDR Flat was 60,000, when solo coke was 10 naira, when  cup of rice was 30 naira  that he would make things easier for us, but things are not any better for us only for him and his PDP party chieftains.

I would decide in just a matter of days !

Lets watch and pray.

kpactrium@yahoo.com

honeric01:

Old line, say something new

banom:

Are you kidding or u just wanna have fun ? what dayokanu wrote about Buhari is it new or old ? is it not what he supposedly did in the past that we do not know, Now i exposed the evils he did in the past and you dont want to hear about that any more.

Grow up boy, this is internet age , people are no longer foolish as in the past. Buhari and his campaign team paid you guys to come online to advertise about him with all kinds of colored attributes and you think all of us here will be so foolish to accept all your crabs of Nonsense.

Buhari a jihadist and religious bigot and extremist for president indeed

banom:

Are you kidding or u just wanna have fun ? what dayokanu wrote about Buhari is it new or old ? is it not what he supposedly did in the past that we do not know, Now i exposed the evils he did in the past and you dont want to hear about that any more.

Grow up boy, this is internet age , people are no longer foolish as in the past. Buhari and his campaign team paid you guys to come online to advertise about him with all kinds of colored attributes and you think all of us here will be so foolish to accept all your crabs of Nonsense.

Buhari a jihadist and religious bigot and extremist for president indeed

azeezengr:

I have only two questions and if anybody can answer it sincerely, Nigerians should no who to vote for President in 2011

Question 1: Why are the Northern Corrupt Leaders(e.g IBB, ATIKU etc) ARE NOT SUPPORTING and HAS NEVER SUPPORT BUHARI?

Question 2: Why are all KNOWN CORRUPT LEADERS IN NIGERIA ARE WILLING,ABLE  AND READY TO SUPPORT  GEJ?

ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS SINCERELY?

table]Are you kidding or u just wanna have fun ? what dayokanu wrote about Buhari is it new or old ? is it not what he supposedly did in the past that we do not know, Now i exposed the evils he did in the past and you dont want to hear about that any more.

Grow up boy, this is internet age , people are no longer foolish as in the past. Buhari and his campaign team paid you guys to come online to advertise about him with all kinds of colored attributes and you think all of us here will be so foolish to accept all your crabs of Nonsense.

Buhari a jihadist and religious bigot and extremist for president indeed
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WHEN, in 1994, the late General Sani Abacha, invited former Head of State, Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to serve as head of the newly created Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund (PTF), the latter gave one condition for this acceptance: He must be given the title of Executive Chairman, and he must have a free hand to run the Fund as he saw fit, without any interference from anyone.

The PTF was itself a child of controversy. Abacha had, in 1994, increased the price which Nigerians had to pay for petrol, diesel and kerosene. The Nigerian populace vehemently opposed the hike, both because the increase was exorbitant, and because most Nigerians were certain that the windfall from the price hike would find its way into the hands of a few highly placed Nigerians.

To assuage this fear, Abacha summoned Gen. Buhari from retirement, to administer a new Trust Fund into which all excess income from the price increase would be paid, and from which the Fund would intervene in critical areas of the economy in such a manner as to directly benefit ordinary Nigerians. Buhari's main qualification was that he was considered to be both a strict disciplinarian and an incorruptible man. And he was for this reason expected to ensure that the fund was properly used, and that it would not become another avenue from which public funds were simply carted away by a handful of well-placed Nigerians. That was the expectation. But the reality, in the end, was a story of massive and cynical looting of the public treasury.

How the Fund became a funnel

Gen. Buhari was Executive Chairman of the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund from its inception in 1994, to its disbandment by the Obasanjo administration in 1999. According to the report of the Interim Management Committee, which was set up in that year to investigate the affairs of the Fund, the total income accruing to the Fund from mid-1994 to July 1999 was in excess of N181 billion. There were six major areas in which the PTF intervened directly during the period. They were: roads and waterways; supply of educational materials and rehabilitation of educational infrastructure; food supply; health; water supply; and what was curiously termed other projects.

The management structure of the Fund was so capricious, from start, as in retrospect to suggest that the executive chairman was far more impressed by his position as an alternate Head of State, an Interventionist Czar who was answerable to no one, not even the Head of State himself, than anything else. First, he unilaterally appointed a single consultant, Afri-Projects Consortium, as the sole adviser to the Fund. Then he delegated virtually all his powers to this agency. Afri-Projects Consortium was given the exclusive power to initiate projects, assess their probable cost, approve the costs, execute the projects, and assess the quality of execution, all alone. The Consortium's decisions could not be questioned by anyone outside the Fund. Even the statutory members of the Fund's Board of Trustees found themselves helplessly watching as huge sums of money were paid out for questionable projects. And not surprisingly, the three professional management firms recruited by the Interim Management Committee to audit the performance of Afri-Projects Consortium came up with the unanimous conclusion that APC had over-charged the Fund for its services to the tune of over N2 billion.

APC directly managed the HIV/AIDS Intervention Programme of the Fund. Its managerial incompetence was found to be staggering. It knowingly imported sub-standard, poorly packaged, poorly stored, expired, or soon to expire treatment kits and drugs. And in the end, the auditing firms that investigated APC's performance concluded that it had cost the government N579 million by stocking huge silos of useless drugs and kits, purchased at inflated prices.

PTF's intervention in other areas of the health sector was equally atrocious. For instance, under the supervision of the omnipotent APC, PTF purchased large quantities of spectacle frames which were at the time costing only N800 a piece locally, for N1,900 a piece. This cost the public treasury over N45 million in inflated charges.

Ambulances whose going price at the time was N3 million each were found to have been purchased for N13 million each, leading to a loss to the treasury of N900 million.

PTF, through APC, purchased general drugs at the cost of N3 billion. The Interim Management Committee's consultants concluded that the Fund had been cheated by as much as N1.5 billion through inflated charges, and because most of the drugs had already expired before they could be safely used.

The Interim Committee's consultants also discovered that PTF had decided, without approval from the government, to build a residential estate in Wuse, Abuja, a project which was clearly outside the scope of its intervention mandate. The project purportedly cost PTF N703 million. But the consultants concluded that a realistic valuation of the project could not exceed N328 million. The project cost was inflated by more than 100 per cent, at N375 million.

In virtually every other area of PTF activity, three separate consultants engaged by the Interim Committee, and working independently, concluded that there had been massive fraud or criminal mismanagement of funds belonging to Buhari's empire. The Headquarters Extension and Renovation Project of the PTF cost the Fund N461 million. The consultants determined that it should not have cost more than N326 million. The Fund had been defrauded by N135 million.

The PTF had three main bank accounts. The independent consultants concluded that the Fund had been short-changed by as much as N3.6 billion by way of short payment of interest accruals from deposits, or excessive charges on Cost of Turnover by preferred banks.

The Rural Water Supply Scheme was another funnel from which huge sums of money were siphoned away. The independent consultants determined that as much as N1 billion was recoverable from inflated costs and mobilisations for work that was never done. They discovered, also, that the Fund had lost as much as N900 million in the Educational Materials Supply Scheme, through inflated charges and non-performance of contracts duly paid for.

The Rural Telecommunications Development Scheme was another such scheme from which money was cynically carted away by favoured clients. The scheme was designed in two parts: a Pilot Phase, and the Main Phase. The Pilot programme was intended to determine the viability of the project. But this did not deter PFF, under Gen. Buhari, to award contracts for the main programme to the tune of N1.6 billion, without any contracts signed, and before any conclusions could be drawn from the Pilot project.

It is a horrendous story of criminal negligence, cynical fraud, and unprecedented disregard for all civilised standards of prudence and transparency in the disbursement of public funds. In the end, the independent consultants concluded that of the N181 billion that accrued to PTF in the four and a half years of its existence between July 1994 and July 1999, as much as N25 billion was either stolen or improperly expended.

The great man's defence

Sources from within the PTF Interim Management Committee assert that when Gen. Buhari was invited to comment on the findings of the committee's consultants regarding the conduct of the empire over which he presided, he coyly retorted that he was not aware that such massive fraud went on his watch, but that in any event, he could not have benefited personally from the hideous purloining of the treasury. .

That may be true, but it does not detract from the fact that he delegated to this outfit the sole and exclusive power to initiate projects, assess those submitted by other companies, approve variations on contract sums, and determine the quality of work done. He also, by his own admission, according to our sources, approved in writing all recommended payments from the Fund. But he did not know, he claimed, that those to whom he had delegated virtually all his powers were stealing the country blind. And no one has a right to call him to account, since to do so would be to question his famous reputation.

Former president Shehu Shagari was kept in jail for nearly one and a half years by Buhari, and almost lost his sight, when Buhari seized power on December 31, 1983, not because he was found guilty of any criminal offence, certainly not for abuse of his office. Shagari's only crime, it appeared, was that Buhari was convinced that the buck stopped at his desk, for as President, he had to pay vicariously for the purported crimes of his lieutenants. Umaru Dikko, Shagari's ubiquitous Minister of Transport, almost died in a crate, contrived by Buhari, that was en route from London to Nigeria, where he no doubt would have suffered worse than Shagari's fate. Some state governors were jailed for 200 years and more, because they could not account for how they spent their security votes (which were often no more than N20 million).

azeezengr:

I have only two questions and if anybody can answer it sincerely, Nigerians should no who to vote for President in 2011

Question 1: Why are the Northern Corrupt Leaders(e.g IBB, ATIKU etc) ARE NOT SUPPORTING and HAS NEVER SUPPORT BUHARI?

Question 2: Why are all KNOWN CORRUPT LEADERS IN NIGERIA ARE WILLING,ABLE AND READY TO SUPPORT GEJ?

ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS SINCERELY?