@ Jimmy Boy, Everybody is tired. Our problems are many and complex. The militant and bombing wahala alone is so much trouble. But that is not an excuse. PDP could have done better.

So my turn to ask you. This time a different question: Why Not Ribadu / Adeola?

this poll is 100% FALSE! You'd surprised that BB will pull an upset at this election.

People will vote with their heads and not with emotions, and that is what will bring to power, the team that will come and clean up all the mess PDP have caused.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Its reuters not NTA,

in 2007 election i remember watching CNN. and cnn had to give Inec light to count our elections

this foreign news networks know nigeria inside and out, so am pretty sure it must be precise abit

I see the post as ERROR that does not affect TRIAL BALANCE, LMAO

BUHARI-BAKARE FOR PRESIDENT JARE.

LOL, lets wait and see.

"I know in my heart that at 12am midnight on the eve of Buhari's swearing in as President & Commander in chief, all corrupt politicians and thier cohorts will relocate from this country. Change! is really coming at last" .----- Emeka Tarmaya Ogbu (on FaceBook)

" I believe by now PDP helmsmen should be considering taking on second careers. May i be so bold as to suggest stage acting, fantasy playwriting/scriptwriting, occasions and event management, party and event security (bouncers) amongst other wonderful professions that they seem to always get right. The problem is for them to come out on top even in this field, outclassing our friends and collegues already there, may require some form of rigging, manipulation and truth bending and mending, "----- Kola Osafehinti (on FaceBook)

bk.babe97y:

"I know in my heart that [b]at 12am midnight on the eve of Buhari's swearing in as President & Commander in chief, all corrupt politicians and thier cohorts will relocate from this country. Change! is really coming at last[/b]" .----- Emeka Tarmaya Ogbu (on FaceBook)

As tempting as that sounds, it will never happen sadly.

^^^^^

Watch and see this happen!!!

The new edition of the best seller excerpts written by AUTHEBURCKLEY, expanded by ABDULMALIK LARRY KRAUS ZUBEIRU is out jus now, it has sold more than 1000000000000000000000000 copies, but for our teeming supporters of good conscience and some urchins (leftists) this copy is free of charge* no tax,

" added 31 REASONS WHY BUHARI DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR VOTE

In my books, Buhari is a pretentious anti-corruption fighter. The trajectory of a man's journey in public life matters. For the following reasons I cannot vote for Buhari:

1. He is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara and dollars to be put under house arrest is my evidence. He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers who's land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.

1(a) Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after.

1 (b) Prof. Ambrose Alli also became blind as a result of this false imprisonment. When he died, he had only one undeveloped plot of land to his name.

1© Pa Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life. Whe he died, he never had any property anywhere in the world except the one he had built from his sweat as long term teacher and school principal in Owo township.

2. He put in place a retroactive law that killed three men, innocent men in my book, by public execution.

3. He jailed Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian on stories that were factually true under Decree 4. He had told the Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not, if his regime did not like it, the writer would go to jail.

4. He supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash through the MMA against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku, the then Director General of the Customs who later became the Vice President and a compromised politician himself. This smuggling of the suit cases was supervised by his ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo.

5. He jailed Fela Anikulapo -Kuti on trumped up charges under an emergency law which prompted the sentencing judge to confess that he was ordered to do so and apologised to the late musician. It was Buhari's administration that said it has "decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all."

6. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of a Northern population majority

7. He is an Islamic fundamentalist, the Bin Laden of Nigeria, who told his northern followers never to vote for anyone who was not a muslim.

8. He is a coup plotter.

9. He has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the Petroleum Trust Fund of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha.
9(a) He has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the Northern Nigeria with the so-caled trust fund.

10. He was in full support of all the atrocities of Sani Abacha against the Nigerian people. There is no single record of his criticism of Sani Abacha during those dark days when Nigeria was on precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such unfit to lead the country.

11. Buhari, as part of his tribalistic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatial mansion in Ikoyi while he locked up Shagari's Vice, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison. Shagari is Hausa/Fulani like him while Alex Ekwueme is an Igboman.

12. Ikemba Emeka Ojukwu, another Igboman who returned from 13years exile just a little over a year then was as well locked up in KiriKiri Prison by mean-hearted Buhari.Up till today we are not told what was Emeka's offence.

13. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him to be taken out of prison for immediate medical attention.The then Governor of Ogun State,Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely death.

14. Buhari ransacked the house of our late sage, Obafemi Awolowo and confisticated his International passport. Which civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Buhari as President,the same individual who overthrew an elected President? Never!

15. Plus Buhari having Sam Mbakwe in jail, went for one of Mbakwe's wives. He established himself again for what he was/is letting Mbakwe receive in jailhouse news of the death of another of Mbakwe's two wives. One (I can't remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail.

16. Buhari's henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State, is Mohammed Abacha, the same person that had/ran a personal killing squad, coordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola & attempted to kill Ibru; and also stashed money in underground tanks, all less than 13 years ago, Nigerians have very short selective memory. Shame

?17. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups/faiths; and that as PTF Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/Moslem people at the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the Nort, h. If in doubt read El Rufai's testimony where he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll Yar'Adua's election in 1999.

18. Buhari is unforgiving. When he "took over" by coup in 1983, he even remembered an article written a very very long time ago by Bisi Onabanjo ('The Mallams are coming') and a later one in which Onabanjo wrote that people should watch out for that "gangly officer from the north" after Buhari gave a no holds barred speech at some Army functions where he was reported to be very openly pro Fulani and pro Islam to the exclusive of all else and also talked about termination of democratic rule. For that, Onabanjo got one of the harshest jail terms and treatments.

19. Buhari intolerance is worse than Obasanjo's. When he was adopted as the ANPP's candidate on the night of the party's Primaries without prior warning to the other candidates (and a few of them protested), Buhari got up and made a speech that those people must be disciplined. I subsequently saw him on BBC's "hard talk" and he frightened me and the interviewer with his archaic and fundamentalist intolerant views. His understanding and articulation is very much in doubt.

20. The evil genius, IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha's demise, Buhari said that Abacha stole nothing from Nigeria! Despite millions of Dollars recovered from banks around the world and the Abacha family signing a formal agreement to return over $1 billion dollars, Buhari still said that Abacha's stealing remains an unproved allegation!!!! Why? Because Abacha set Buhari up like an emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions.

21. Buhari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Despite the fact that Buhari knew how inportant reconciliation is to the stability of democracy. Buhari has never apologised at anytime.

22. Buhari executed Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26). 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. and At the time Ogedengbe committed the crime it did not carry that punishment. If we must live as civilised citizens we must go by the rules. Article 11.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission WHICH DID NOT CONSTITUTE A PENAL OFFENCE, under national or international law at the time when it was committed. NOR SHALL A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT BE IMPOSED THAN THE ONE THAT WAS APPLICABLE AT THE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Killing people with retroactive laws is not the civilised thing to do - and for as long as we will have people who refuse to see the truth only because their heroes are inching to rule when they have not purged themselves we will continue to wallow in misery.
23. Let’s informed Buhari that Lateef Jakande’s $60 million metro rail project for Lagos, which he cancelled immediately after he over-threw the Second Republic, has now accumulated a debt profile of over $3 billion for Lagos State, making the state the most indebted state to Paris Club in the federation.
24 let also remind Buhari that Gbolahan Mudashiru, his Military Administrator for Lagos State, alerted him on the clause in the contract agreement that would yoke the state to this debt, if the contract was cancelled unilaterally, and that he replied Mudashiru, that he didn’t care a damn.Though the fund for the execution of that project which would have given the people of Lagos an intra-city light train transport system would not have come from Buhari’s Supreme Military Council, General Buhari, as Military Head of State, cancelled this wonderful project of the state government, with ethnicity on his mind.
25. Let us again tell him that his action of jailing Dr Alex Ekwueme, then Nigeria’s vice president, from Anambra, and keeping President Shehu Shagari, from Sokoto State in a house arrest in Ikoyi was also ethnically fired.
26. So also was the shorter end of the stick he handed the South, as chair of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), in the execution of projects.
27. Shagari’s regime (1979-1983), incurred Buhari’s wrath when it decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that disappeared from the Midland Bank, London account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, (NNPC), during General Obasanjo’s era as military head of state that preceded Shagari’s. Dr. Olusola Saraki, Turaki of Ilorin, was the majority party leader of the Senate at the time and he headed the Senate Committee set up to trace the stolen money after some three years of clamour for such an investigation by members of the civil society. The money was traced to the Midland Bank London branch fixed account of Buhari, Obasanjo’s appointee as military head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The Committee’s report was presented to the Senate during the tail end of Shagari’s regime in 1983, so the House decided to deal with the matter soon after the 1983 general elections.
28. He locked up without trial, politicians and critics including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue. Vera Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked through his prodding as military ruler, for reporting what Dr. Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was traced to Buhari’s account at a Midland Bank London branch. Vera eventually won her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and was financially compensated.
29. Abacha rehabilitated Buhari with the chairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) before he (Abacha) died in 1998. When Obasanjo returned to power in May 1999 as civilian president, he found that over 2.5 billion naira had not been properly accounted for in the PTF and that there was not much on the ground to show for the colossal expenditure the agency was claiming. On the day Obasanjo announced the scrapping of the PTF, a non-staff brother-in-law of the boss, allegedly serving as his conduit on some PTF projects, died suddenly from what appeared to be heart failure.
30. Buhari’s conflicting statements on the money laundering charges involving his ADC in 1984 on the 53 suit cases saga, has indicted him.
31. He should reveal to us his health status… Buhari at 69 yr old is a clear liability on Nigeria and Nigerians is Nigeria a health insurance scheme?




If Nigerians reward dangerous, insensitive, dishonest, mean, cruel, partial, egoistic, religious, fundamendalist, conscienceless human beings like MOHAMMADU BUHARI with the presidency of Nigeria with his kind of track record, then why do we still wonder why Nigeria has not and will not make it?

I can not in good conscience support Buhari's candidacy on the above grounds. I wish we have intelligent people who know what democracy means. I wish we have civilized minds. However, I am 100 percent sure that Buhari will never again rule Nigeria.
It is clear that apart from the states of the North-West and North-East, his Congress for Political Change (CPC) would hardly earn 25 per cent of the total number of votes cast in the remaining states of the federation. By implication, two zones just cannot earn Buhari the presidency he is looking for, no matter their voting strength.

Jonathan can still get some vote out of lagosians. but ACN has say in Lagos

Eziachi:
So based on your theory about Nigerian sudden dislike of voting parties Jonathan is individually better than say Pat Utomi or even Chris Okotie that is why people are clamouring for him?
This is a new gospel according PDP of asking gullible Nigerians to forget the last 12 years of their ineptness and sneak in Jonathan who will notw rule without PDP. Any educated person who think a vote for GEJ is not a vote for PDP, OBJ, Aneni and others need not calling anyone an illiterate.
Without PDP who exactly is Jonathan as an individual person? Without PDP can jonathan be able to win a house of assembly election in 1999 based on being Jonathan. They want Nigeria to now believe that there once boasted biggest party in Africa is no longer relevant as an election asset and as clueless as ever the so-called educated are buying the crap.

Eziachi,

Thanks! What a post!

He's getting 80% in Reuters dreams.

Since my post rejuvenated this thread, I will suggest that people do their homework and find out that Buhari-Bakare will win with a margin of 52%- 63%. Take out propaganda and idle talk, Nigerians have more than tolerated PDP long enough. I would have voted Ribadu, but he clearly would not win. To make my vote count, I will vote Buhari who is the only Nigerian left with a liver to handle the untouchables!!! I have rarely made predictions and lost. If I lose this, Nairalanders will be offered a free beer each at an agreed location. May still do the free beer even when my prediction comes true, as we celebrate the renaissance of Nigeria and the cleanup of criminality. We owe this to the country. One term of Buhari should be good enough.

efisher:

@ Jimmy Boy, Everybody is tired. Our problems are many and complex. The militant and bombing wahala alone is so much trouble. But that is not an excuse. PDP could have done better.

So my turn to ask you. This time a different question: Why Not Ribadu / Adeola?

I have a really low opinion of anyone who watched the first debate, and still thinks Ribadu has any substance.

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/moses-ebe-ochonu/the-tragedy-of-nuhu-ribadu.html

^ Including Wole Soyinka?

LSU:

The new edition of the best seller excerpts written by AUTHEBURCKLEY, expanded by ABDULMALIK LARRY KRAUS ZUBEIRU is out jus now,  it has sold more than 1000000000000000000000000 copies, but for our teeming supporters of good conscience and some urchins (leftists) this copy is free of charge* no tax,

" added 31 REASONS WHY BUHARI DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR VOTE

In my books, Buhari is a pretentious anti-corruption fighter. The trajectory of a man's journey in public life matters. For the following reasons I cannot vote for Buhari:

1. He is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara and dollars to be put under house arrest is my evidence. He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers who's land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.

1(a) Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after.

1 (b) Prof. Ambrose Alli also became blind as a result of this false imprisonment. When he died, he had only one undeveloped plot of land to his name.

1© Pa Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life. Whe he died, he never had any property anywhere in the world except the one he had built from his sweat as long term teacher and school principal in Owo township.

2. He put in place a retroactive law that killed three men, innocent men in my book, by public execution.

3. He jailed Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian on stories that were factually true under Decree 4. He had told the Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not, if his regime did not like it, the writer would go to jail.

4. He supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash through the MMA against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku, the then Director General of the Customs who later became the Vice President and a compromised politician himself. This smuggling of the suit cases was supervised by his ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo.

5. He jailed Fela Anikulapo -Kuti on trumped up charges under an emergency law which prompted the sentencing judge to confess that he was ordered to do so and apologised to the late musician. It was Buhari's administration that said it has "decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all."

6. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of a Northern population majority

7. He is an Islamic fundamentalist, the Bin Laden of Nigeria, who told his northern followers never to vote for anyone who was not a muslim.

8. He is a coup plotter.

9. He has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the Petroleum Trust Fund of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha.
9(a) He has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the Northern Nigeria with the so-caled trust fund.

10. He was in full support of all the atrocities of Sani Abacha against the Nigerian people. There is no single record of his criticism of Sani Abacha during those dark days when Nigeria was on precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such unfit to lead the country.

11. Buhari, as part of his tribalistic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatial mansion in Ikoyi while he locked up Shagari's Vice, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison. Shagari is Hausa/Fulani like him while Alex Ekwueme is an Igboman.

12. Ikemba Emeka Ojukwu, another Igboman who returned from 13years exile just a little over a year then was as well locked up in KiriKiri Prison by mean-hearted Buhari.Up till today we are not told what was Emeka's offence.

13. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him to be taken out of prison for immediate medical attention.The then Governor of Ogun State,Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely death.

14. Buhari ransacked the house of our late sage, Obafemi Awolowo and confisticated his International passport. Which civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Buhari as President,the same individual who overthrew an elected President? Never!

15. Plus Buhari having Sam Mbakwe in jail, went for one of Mbakwe's wives. He established himself again for what he was/is letting Mbakwe receive in jailhouse news of the death of another of Mbakwe's two wives. One (I can't remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail.

16. Buhari's henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State, is Mohammed Abacha, the same person that had/ran a personal killing squad, coordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola & attempted to kill Ibru; and also stashed money in underground tanks, all less than 13 years ago, Nigerians have very short selective memory. Shame

?17. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups/faiths; and that as PTF Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/Moslem people at the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the Nort, h. If in doubt read El Rufai's testimony where he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll Yar'Adua's election in 1999.

18. Buhari is unforgiving. When he "took over" by coup in 1983, he even remembered an article written a very very long time ago by Bisi Onabanjo ('The Mallams are coming') and a later one in which Onabanjo wrote that people should watch out for that "gangly officer from the north" after Buhari gave a no holds barred speech at some Army functions where he was reported to be very openly pro Fulani and pro Islam to the exclusive of all else and also talked about termination of democratic rule. For that, Onabanjo got one of the harshest jail terms and treatments.

19. Buhari intolerance is worse than Obasanjo's. When he was adopted as the ANPP's candidate on the night of the party's Primaries without prior warning to the other candidates (and a few of them protested), Buhari got up and made a speech that those people must be disciplined. I subsequently saw him on BBC's "hard talk" and he frightened me and the interviewer with his archaic and fundamentalist intolerant views. His understanding and articulation is very much in doubt.

20. The evil genius, IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha's demise, Buhari said that Abacha stole nothing from Nigeria! Despite millions of Dollars recovered from banks around the world and the Abacha family signing a formal agreement to return over $1 billion dollars, Buhari still said that Abacha's stealing remains an unproved allegation!!!! Why? Because Abacha set Buhari up like an emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions.

21. Buhari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Despite the fact that Buhari knew how inportant reconciliation is to the stability of democracy. Buhari has never apologised at anytime.

22. Buhari executed Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26). 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. and At the time Ogedengbe committed the crime it did not carry that punishment. If we must live as civilised citizens we must go by the rules. Article 11.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission WHICH DID NOT CONSTITUTE A PENAL OFFENCE, under national or international law at the time when it was committed. NOR SHALL A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT BE IMPOSED THAN THE ONE THAT WAS APPLICABLE AT THE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Killing people with retroactive laws is not the civilised thing to do - and for as long as we will have people who refuse to see the truth only because their heroes are inching to rule when they have not purged themselves we will continue to wallow in misery.
23. Let’s informed Buhari that Lateef Jakande’s $60 million metro rail project for Lagos, which he cancelled immediately after he over-threw the Second Republic, has now accumulated a debt profile of over $3 billion for Lagos State, making the state the most indebted state to Paris Club in the federation.
24 let also remind Buhari that Gbolahan Mudashiru, his Military Administrator for Lagos State, alerted him on the clause in the contract agreement that would yoke the state to this debt, if the contract was cancelled unilaterally, and that he replied Mudashiru, that he didn’t care a damn.Though the fund for the execution of that project which would have given the people of Lagos an intra-city light train transport system would not have come from Buhari’s Supreme Military Council, General Buhari, as Military Head of State, cancelled this wonderful project of the state government, with ethnicity on his mind.
25. Let us again tell him that his action of jailing Dr Alex Ekwueme, then Nigeria’s vice president, from Anambra, and keeping President Shehu Shagari, from Sokoto State in a house arrest in Ikoyi was also ethnically fired.
26. So also was the shorter end of the stick he handed the South, as chair of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), in the execution of projects.
27. Shagari’s regime (1979-1983), incurred Buhari’s wrath when it decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that disappeared from the Midland Bank, London account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, (NNPC), during General Obasanjo’s era as military head of state that preceded Shagari’s. Dr. Olusola Saraki, Turaki of Ilorin, was the majority party leader of the Senate at the time and he headed the Senate Committee set up to trace the stolen money after some three years of clamour for such an investigation by members of the civil society. The money was traced to the Midland Bank London branch fixed account of Buhari, Obasanjo’s appointee as military head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The Committee’s report was presented to the Senate during the tail end of Shagari’s regime in 1983, so the House decided to deal with the matter soon after the 1983 general elections.
28. He locked up without trial, politicians and critics including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue. Vera Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked through his prodding as military ruler, for reporting what Dr. Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was traced to Buhari’s account at a Midland Bank London branch. Vera eventually won her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and was financially compensated.
29. Abacha rehabilitated Buhari with the chairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) before he (Abacha) died in 1998. When Obasanjo returned to power in May 1999 as civilian president, he found that over 2.5 billion naira had not been properly accounted for in the PTF and that there was not much on the ground to show for the colossal expenditure the agency was claiming. On the day Obasanjo announced the scrapping of the PTF, a non-staff brother-in-law of the boss, allegedly serving as his conduit on some PTF projects, died suddenly from what appeared to be heart failure.
30. Buhari’s conflicting statements on the money laundering charges involving his ADC in 1984 on the 53 suit cases saga, has indicted him.
31. He should reveal to us his health status… Buhari at 69 yr old is a clear liability on Nigeria and Nigerians is Nigeria a health insurance scheme?




If Nigerians reward dangerous, insensitive, dishonest, mean, cruel, partial, egoistic, religious, fundamendalist, conscienceless human beings like MOHAMMADU BUHARI with the presidency of Nigeria with his kind of track record, then why do we still wonder why Nigeria has not and will not make it?

I can not in good conscience support Buhari's candidacy on the above grounds. I wish we have intelligent people who know what democracy means. I wish we have civilized minds. However, I am 100 percent sure that Buhari will never again rule Nigeria.
It is clear that apart from the states of the North-West and North-East, his Congress for Political Change (CPC) would hardly earn 25 per cent of the total number of votes cast in the remaining states of the federation. By implication, two zones just cannot earn Buhari the presidency he is looking for, no matter their voting strength.

WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUBJECTIVE ANALYSES. YOU WOULD HAVE DONE WELL IF YOU SPEAK THE GOOD SIDES TOO. BUT SELECTING THE WRONG SIDE MAKES YOU A BIAS ANALYST. LMAO. IF YOU COULD COME UP WITH THIS FOR BUHARI, I AM 100% SURE THAT OTHERS WOULD HAVE WORST RECORD. IS IT GEJ THAT IS CLUESLESS OR RIBADU THAT WOULD BE USED BY A SINGLE DICTATOR? WELL, YOU TRY SHA,

YOU POINTS ACTUALLY SHOW THAT NO MAN IS SAINT, BUT IF YOU ARE TIRED OF ''STAGNATION AND STAGLATION'' VOTE BUHARI-BAKARI FOR PRESIDENT.

IN CONCLUSION, THOSE PEOPLE U DID MENTION, DID THEY  NOT DESERVE WHAT WAS DONE TO THEM? AND MIND YOU, THAT WAS MILITARY ERA AND LANGUAGE WE ALL UNDERSTOOD THEN WAS FORCE. USING THAT TO JUDGE PRESENT SITUATION WOULD LEAD MIS-INFORMATION SIR,

Far from the truth,

Lets see what happens in the next one month,

efisher:

^ Including Wole Soyinka?

Yep, even tho Im a rabid WS fan. There really is no way around the fact that Ribadu is a neophyte.

Did Reuters go to Oshodi/Idumota, Mushin, Ajegunle or even Alimosho to ask the Agberos, transporters and Iyalojas who they will vote for? Of course it didn't, the correspondents are busy hobnobbing in Victoria Island, Ikoyi, Lekki and sometimes Ikeja. Everybody knows that the Presidential Elections come before the Gubernatorial one. Do you really think Fashola/ACN will allow PDP gain momentum by watching GEJ win in Lagos? If you believe that then you are very naive and do not know anything about politics.

President Jonathan would be delighted if he got 50% of the vote in Lagos- even this is a far-off dream. He does not have the ground-network to win in Lagos. I have met some of his neighbour-2-neighbour canvassers and they are pathetic to say the least.

Ribadu will win in Lagos because this result is key to ACN

The PDP monster will not allow Jonathan to perform

many of you here really dislike GEJ and pdp. The truth is, GEJ is the most popular candidate in Nigeria. Those that will actually vote are not on nairaland sharing there opinion. They are on the streets, in the market. Ask them who they know for gov, and they'll say fashola. do the same for pres, and they'll say goodluck. That day people will where acn t-shirts and vote GEJ(just because they know him).

He (Buhari) is one of Nigeria's most popular politicians and is perceived as being more democratic than most of Nigeria's leading politicians. If he were to win, it would be a pretty good indication that the elections were indeed free, fair and crediblel. There would be a strong emphasis on attacking corruption and that would be quite popular."- John Campbell, Former US Ambassador to Nigeria

efisher:

@ Jimmy Boy, Everybody is tired. Our problems are many and complex. The militant and bombing wahala alone is so much trouble. But that is not an excuse. PDP could have done better.

So my turn to ask you. This time a different question: Why Not Ribadu / Adeola?

Good, if it was a two party system, I would have voted Ribadu ahead of anyone PDP fields. However, the I watched the first debate on NN24, I saw a ribadu that  gave correct answers to most questions, but he seemed to be talking based on tutorials giving to him and not based on his personal conviction. Buhari did not really say much, but the little he said was straight from the heart.

Finally, Ribadu denied a comment we all believe he made about Tinubu, so he his certainly not 100 % sincere, but I can still vote for him in the future.

Thanks

by strategic rigging. They are very good in that

micklplus:

He (Buhari) is one of Nigeria's most popular politicians and is perceived as being more democratic than most of Nigeria's leading politicians. If he were to win, it would be a pretty good indication that the elections were indeed free, fair and crediblel. There would be a strong emphasis on attacking corruption and that would be quite popular."- John Campbell, Former US Ambassador to Nigeria

On the bolded, you and John Campbell must be smoking weed!

How can somebody who truncated a democracy and have never organized one single ward election, promulgated a retroactive decree and hailed to high heavens a military junta that went on a killing spree, be more democratic than people like OBJ who willingly handed-over power and conducted elections (nothwithstanding the credibility)?

Some of the comments from BB supporters can be so annoying and stomach turning at times!!!!

X factoria, take life easy and accept the fact that, change is here! Wouldn't you rather vote for a president that would handle issues squarely? Would you prefer to have a president that doesn't have balls?

I would rather give my vote to a Buhari than give it to jona jona that is being pulled around on strings like a puppet!

Demo-what! Dictator or demoter sounds more like it. Buhari is the farthest thing from a democrat.

Efisher! Why you all are scared? You know jail is sure for all the corrupt politicians when buhari gets in there!

Revolution is not only by bloodshed,okay! Revolution can come through the type of leader you have which buhari represents.

Fashi the smelling poo of jona jona and embrace the change that iis here!!

Wetin be ya pin code? BB2011

fxtopedia:

WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUBJECTIVE ANALYSES. YOU WOULD HAVE DONE WELL IF YOU SPEAK THE GOOD SIDES TOO. BUT SELECTING THE WRONG SIDE MAKES YOU A BIAS ANALYST. LMAO. IF YOU COULD COME UP WITH THIS FOR BUHARI, I AM 100% SURE THAT OTHERS WOULD HAVE WORST RECORD. IS IT GEJ THAT IS CLUESLESS OR RIBADU THAT WOULD BE USED BY A SINGLE DICTATOR? WELL, YOU TRY SHA,

YOU POINTS ACTUALLY SHOW THAT NO MAN IS SAINT, BUT IF YOU ARE TIRED OF ''STAGNATION AND STAGLATION'' VOTE BUHARI-BAKARI FOR PRESIDENT.

IN CONCLUSION, THOSE PEOPLE U DID MENTION, DID THEY  NOT DESERVE WHAT WAS DONE TO THEM? AND MIND YOU, THAT WAS MILITARY ERA AND LANGUAGE WE ALL UNDERSTOOD THEN WAS FORCE. USING THAT TO JUDGE PRESENT SITUATION WOULD LEAD MIS-INFORMATION SIR,

How can you expect him to speak Buhari's few good sides and shun the weighty bad sides?? Don't you guys keep hammering on the only bad side of GEJ which is that he is of PDP??

Then, the whole lot of you here seem to be under the illusion that fighting corruption under a military regime where there is no rule of law, no press freedom and where you are permitted to harass people (using koboko and unknown soldiers) without fair hearing is the same as fighting corruption under a democratic setting where the law courts will require you to properly investigate and provide incontrovertible evidences to back your claims

I tell you guys, BB supporters, Buhari's experience in fighting corruption in 1984/85 is not useful to Nigeria at this time. Apart from telling us he will fight corruption, the HOW he will go about it has not been properly highlighted in his campaigns. He didn't even sound convincing at the NN24 debate on this subject.

Finally, Buhari is not and has never been a democrat. He is only seeking to take advantage of democracy for his own gains or perhaps for Northern Nigeria gains. To prove my point, Buhari never saw anything wrong in Abacha's undemocratic ploy to transform into a civilian head of state via "the 5 leprod hands of Abacha" - the 5 political parties that all adopted him as their candidate. When the likes of MD Yusufu were shouting on top of their voices, Buhari was so very much silent. In the struggle for June 12, his voice was never heard. In fact, he has never fought for democracy, rather he has supported the trouncing of it by being a beneficiary of a military coup that truncated the second republic. How about his unstatemanly behaviours evident in his not participating in resolving any national issue such as Sharia, Niger Delta etc?

So, how and with what will anyone convince me that Buhari has now chnaged from being docile on national issues to now be so passionate about correcting the ills and bringing about the change that we all desire

My conclusion on Buhari's candidacy is that he is the Hausa/Fulani's bait to get back "what belongs to them - POWER"!! The handwriting on the wall says so and I will expect many of you guys here to rationalize that away.

^ Well said