sochan:

@Beaf,

you should have done the honourable thing and choose you classification. I will bet money you will fall under the 4 set.

http://www.247nigeria.com/wole-soyinkas-final-verdict-on-the-pdp-of-nigeria

Lol! So you post a link that was posted by "admin" on a website nobody knows as proof? Damn!
You ought to be ashamed of yourself! Are you going to post links from NL next as proof of what Soyinka said?

Abeg, post a credible link or be classified a liar. Thanks.

buhari owns my vote notin can change it

Assuming Wole Soyinka said that, should it then negate your ability to intellectually make your own analysis and determination. It doesn't automatically become so, just because Wole Soyinka said so. Use your own intellect, make your own original analysis, use you brain, you have one, trust me. Stop worshipping and following personalities blindly and verbatim, it's the bane of our problems.

Well said.

Its very disheartening that Nigerians are still blinded be ethnicity and religions.Can someone who is suddenly a Goodluck admirer tell me what PDP or GEJ has been able to achieve in 12 years except emtpy promises.What was his achievement as Dep Governor,Governor,Vice President and President except for his sober and dull looks.Can a GEJ apologist tell me a federal road that has been completed in 12 years,not a single one.How about the 7 point agenda,nothing.I passed on the Ife Ibadan road yesterday,an accident on that road killed 15 people.A monarch and the wife died on the same spot a week ago.If you are sick and you need emergency operation,do you ask the Doctor if He is a Muslim,Southerner or a christian.For those of us not blind,deaf and blind.Tell your family and friends,Buhari/Bakare is the future

Nairalanders! What has GEJ(PDP) got to offer to this country? What major thing has he done so far since he entered into power?? Please let's open our eyes and mind and see that people like GEJ can't lead. We need strong men at mind to take the mantle of leadership and move this country forward. Long live Nigeria.

PDP, CPC, they're all the same 2 me, once they get there its chop chop chop

Beaf:

Not everyone is a semi-literate rat catcher thats spends their life on burukutu and believes the nearest rumour.

See a man with an IQ of -1 talking even when you see the truth, you will still tyrn your back at it.like soyinka said,beaf is intellectually blind !

Everybody knows that PDP Is a complete failure - The evidence of failure is glaring .


Only mad dogs or bastards who dont wish Nigeria well will cast a vote for PDP.

I can plumb that soyinka's hairs have engulfed his brain. So, its otiose joining issues with an idiot, cos he'll want to pull his level

~Bluetooth:

See a man with an IQ of -1 talking even when you see the truth, you will still tyrn your back at it.like soyinka said,beaf is intellectually blind !

LOL! I'm sure its painful to be classed as a burukuru drinking rat catcher, but bros, the truth is bitter!
. . .again, you rumour mongers bera provide a credible link or be forever classed as liars.

I care less about your bitter truth.the fact remains that soyinka has classified visionless people and I'm happy you made the list.

These are strong words coming from the Prof. and painfully true are they.
I can see his tears behind his statement.

[/color][color=#990000] WOLE SOYINKA FORGOT TO MENTION THAT DOS WHO WERE NT OPPORTUNED TO WATCH D DEBATE LL VOTE 4 GEJ. Y ODAS KP DEBATN ON DSTV PDP IS BUSY WITH D MASSES WHO DONT VE DSTV AT THIER DISPOSAL ND DONT KNW WHAT INTERNET IS ALL ABOUT. PLS ANY1 WITH A VALID STATISTIC JST WNT TO KNW OW MANY % OF NIGERIANS RE HAVN ACCESS TO DSTV ND NAIRALAND ND OW MANY LL B VOTING?

(YAAAAAAAAWWWWWNNNNNN) Opinion, they say is like an @$$. everybody has one. Wole soyinka has the right to say anything he likes as every Nigerian has the right to vote anyone they like.  

LOOK ! let me tell you this, people are not voting for parties but individual,if you are really in NIGERIA AND YOU CAN FEEL THE CHANGE ALREADY YOU WILL KNW THAT GEJ is the best candidate for nigeria now. As for wole soyinka Old age can affect people sometimes.

The best way for a foolish man to be classified as wise man is to remain silent. PDP NO! CPC YES! Before promotion there must be assessment.

GEJ claims dat because NN24 is foreign-owned, he cannot appear in a debate organized by it, instead he cowardly opts 4 a debate ostensibly organized by BON. If we're 2 accept dis crass logic I ask: who owns Facebook on whose platform GEJ chose 2 declare his intention 2 run 4 office? A foreigner or a local citizen? Why is he on Facebook dat's foreign-owned? [Meanwhile NN24 is owned by one Mr. Anthony Dara; for further proof, watch the clips of the Vice-Presidential Debate, the anchor at the beginning introduced him and he made a brief sppech

Well, he(Soyinka) said worse things about tyrant Buhari. Google it!

I am voting for GEJ and Ameachi, don't care what that makes me!

ALL ITS GONNA TAKE IS THE ASSASINATION OF A MAJOR POLITICAL FIGURE. THAT WILL SET THE STAGE FOR UPHEAVAL ALL OVER THE COUNTRY NIGERIA. THOSE WHO ARE NOT PREPARED FOR THE VIOLENCE OF THE UPHEAVAL WILL BE IN GREATEST DANGER.

NIGERIAN LEADERS IN FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL POSITIONS ARE THINKERS. THEY KNOW HOW THE MASSES BEHAVE AND THE KNOW HOW TO MANIPULATE AND DECEIVE THEM BASED ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF NIGERIAN MASSES. CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE RULED MASSES ARE GETTING MORE CONSCIOUS OF THE MACHINATIONS OF GREEDY AND CORRUPT NIGERIAN LEADERS AND HOW TO DEAL THEM SERIOUS BLOWS WHEN THE TIME COMES TO ATTACK.

TAKE EGYPT FOR INSTANCE. THE LEADERS AND MASSES THAT OUSTED MUBARAK TOOK RISKS AND TOOK ADVANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITIES. ORGANIZATION OF THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION STARTED ON FORUMS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS LIKE FACEBOOK. IT CAN START HERE ON NAIRALAND.COM AND IT WILL.

DEATH TO OPPRESSORS.DIE VICTORIOUS.

God knows where Nigeria is going.

mrperfect:

God knows where Nigeria is going.

canaanland, land flowing with milk and tomato juice, only that ours might take longer than usual, may be a millennium

Nigerian youth, one of the most dependent people on earth, they wait for direction and never ready to direct.

who didn't know all these before?

As for Wole Soyinka, he likes talking too much, today it's Buhari, tomorrow it's PDP, can this man be stable for once?

honeric01:

Nigerian youth, one of the most dependent people on earth, they wait for direction and never ready to direct.

who didn't know all these before?

As for Wole Soyinka, he likes talking too much, today it's Buhari, tomorrow it's PDP, can this man be stable for once?

I DONT GET YOU

~Bluetooth:

I care less about your bitter truth.the fact remains that soyinka has classified visionless people and I'm happy you made the list.

You will care when you make the jail list for lying like a thief caught with his hands in the cookie jar:

[size=21pt]Stop Using My Name For Campaign - Soyinka[/size]

Posted By On March 21, 2011 @ 2:35 pm In National,News | 1 Comment

In a terse e-mail to all the media houses this morning, Prof. Wole Soyinka called the attention of the public and the police to some fake text messages purportedly written by him endorsing some politicians.

His e-mail: It has been brought to my notice that certain text messages of a political nature are being sent out over my name. I have actually seen one of them. I wish to alert the public that these messages are fraudulent and did not emanate from me. I have sent no text or email messages whatsoever to any individual or circulation list, and have no plans to do so. [size=14pt]To the best of my knowledge, forgery in any circumstances remains a criminal act even in Nigeria[/size]. I therefore draw the attention of the police to this unsavoury development on the rapidly degenerating political scene and call for prompt action before it becomes rampant.

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/03/21/stop-using-my-name-for-campaign-%e2%80%94soyinka/

Stone throwers will do anything in desperation, lie, steal, bomb, forge. . .

www.nairaland.com/attachments/402192_neanderthalBuhari_jpg94a5dcb7e8dc00198a7a1091cb279960

fROM THE DEBATE bUHARI AND rIBADU ARE NOT SOUND ENOUGH. i WAS IMPRESSED BY THE INTELLIGENCE DISPLAYED BY sHEKARAU. wISH MY GEJ was there to display his high intellect. Ill vote for Shekarau in 2015, cos for now my vote is ticked for GEJ.

I still don't believe that the noble prof must have maqde such an ignorant statement based on the debate, I would have expected him to say that he doesn't expect Nigerians to vote for any of those on show,,
From time memorial the noble prof has always been for true federalism, fiscal independence of the federating units, not this present system that encourages laziness and corruption. The main contestants want to continue with the structure as it is, promising to fight corruption, thus displaying a serious lack of creativity, an essential component that the next leader of this country needs to have to take us out of our failed state.

Another reason I find it difficult to believe is the obvious reality of the key political parties.
Buhari who desires to be the president of this country leads an extremist islamic core north party that's has become a refuge for those who lost out in the PDP. The man himself understands that he is viewed in the south as a religious bigot and decided to quench this stink by choosing a pastor from the south.

Ribadu is being made the stooge for the SW party, and with the rascal tinubu forcing him to choose his vice from the SW, he is only now useful in making sure that northern votes for BB arfe split. In terms of track record the older version. of AC (AD) ruled in the SW for4 good years with absolutely nothing to show

Does Soyinka realize that at least 10 to 15 million Nigerians moved up to middle class status in the last 5 years, and that many if them would attribute their success to the PDP govt policies, and thus vote accordingly?

I think he is way too presumptuous and emotional in that comment attributed to him.

This Buhari fan poster is very dishonest in the right title of Prof's Press statement.Pls read the original text,it was an eye opener to the world on who Buhari really is(or was)

[b]Nigerians Are Against Gen.Buhari.

This intervention has been provoked, not so much by the ambitions of General Buhari to return to power at the head of a democratic Nigeria, as by declarations of support from directions that leave one totally dumbfounded. It would appear that some, myself among them, had been overcomplacent about the magnitude of an ambition that seemed as preposterous as the late effort of General Ibrahim Babangida to aspire yet again to the honour of presiding over a society that truly seeks a democratic future. What one had dismissed was a rash of illusions, brought about by other political improbabilities that surround us, however, is being given an air of plausibility by individuals and groupings to which one had earlier attributed a sense of relevance of historic actualities. Recently, I published an article in the media, invoking the possible recourse to psychiatric explanation for some of the incongruities in conduct within national leadership. Now, to tell the truth, I have begun to seriously address the issue of which section of society requires the services of a psychiatrist. The contest for a seizure of rationality is now so polarized that I am quite reconciled to the fact it could be those of us on this side, not the opposing school of thought that ought to declare ourselves candidates for a lunatic asylum. So be it. While that decision hangs in the balance however, the forum is open. Let both sides continue to address our cases to the electorate, but also prepare to submit ourselves for psychiatric examination.


The time being so close to electoral decision, we can understand the haste of some to resort to shortcuts. In the process however, we should not commit the error of opening the political space to any alternative whose curative touch to national afflictions have proven more deadly than the disease. In order to reduce the clutter in our options towards the forthcoming elections, we urge a beginning from what we do know, what we have undergone, what millions can verify, what can be sustained by evidence accessible even to the school pupil, the street hawker or a just-come visitor from outer space. Leaving Buhari aside for now, I propose a commencing exercise that should guide us along the path of elimination as we examine the existing register of would-be president. That initial exercise can be summed up in the following speculation: “If it were possible for Olusegun Obasanjo, the actual incumbent, to stand again for election, would you vote for him?”

If the answer is “yes”, then of course all discussion is at an end. If the answer is ‘No’ however, then it follows that a choice of a successor made by Obasanjo should be assessed as hovering between extremely dangerous and an outright kiss of death. The degree of acceptability of such a candidate should also be inversely proportionate to the passion with which he or she is promoted by the would-be ‘godfather’. We do not lack for open evidence about Obasanjo’s passion in this respect. From Lagos to the USA, he has taken great pains to assure the nation and the world that the anointed NPN presidential flag bearer is guaranteed, in his judgment, to carry out his policies. Such an endorsement/anointment is more than sufficient, in my view, for public acceptance or rejection. Yar’Adua’s candidature amounts to a terminal kiss from a moribund regime. Nothing against the person of this – I am informed - personable governor, but let him understand that in addition to the direct source of his emergence, the PDP, on whose platform he stands, represents the most harrowing of this nation’s nightmares over and beyond even the horrors of the Abacha regime. If he wishes to be considered on his own merit, now is time for him, as well as others similarly enmeshed, to exercise the moral courage that goes with his repudiation of that party, a dissociation from its past, and a pledge to reverse its menacing future. We shall find him an alternative platform on which to stand, and then have him present his credentials along those of other candidates engaged in forging a credible opposition alliance. Until then, let us bury this particular proposition and move on to a far graver, looming danger, personified in the history of General Buhari.


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 Buhari’s coup staged? Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagari’s 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 ‘dis’pline’, 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 needle’s 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 negotiated.


By Wole SOYINKA[/b]



I told you guys,this BB thing is fake and a bubble.The fact on ground is completely different.Nigerians abeg shine your eyes oh!

Why are some people saying PDP will surely win even when it's glaring that they will lose come April? Are you saying nothing can be done if they rig?

PDP is sure to lose this time. You guys can keep your negative thoughts to yourselves. 19th century is gone, our eyes are widely open nowww!

And I'm sure they know this. OBJ self won't dare.

WE WILL VOTE RIBADU FOR PRESIDENT.Iwill never waste my vote on an expired leadership of the two sides of a coin called gej/Buhari.
I will not compromise an effecient,competent and brilliant team to drive Nigeria's growth and development for the same team/generation of people that have run down Nigeria!
Just imagine,compare a Fola Adeola to Sambo or Bakare?It is only people who want old ideas to solve new ideas that is well known to have failed that will vote gej/bb.

If Nigeria will change,it lies in the hands of God and the God-gearing competent team of Ribadu n Fola Adeola.
Vote them for the presidency.God bless you as you do so.God bless my country Nigeria.