Would buhari have tackled the boko haram menace more effectively given his swift reactions to tackling crises d moment such crisis starts. many would remember d encroachment of chadian rebels who cross into d nigerian border in borno in d early eighties. buhari as goc didn't wait for d president or akinrinade's order b4 sending troops from jos, bauchi and borno states, including d airfoces to crush d rebels and pushed and follow them with fire across d chad border. some reports even cited nigerian jets dropping bombs on njamaina, the chadian capital.

i know politics, ethnicentric and tribal b-ullsh+t will come into play but please be objective while giving ur comments & opinion.

Yes he would have, reason being that the military will respect him more and the bad guys will also know they are dealing with a bad as.s president who takes no prisoners.

You bet. Sometimes, the past is the best predictor of future events. And Buhari certainly has the record that speaks eloquently for him on this matter.

Jonathan as we speak is in a Warri church. He knelt down for Adeboye. We expect him to prostrate for Ayo Oritsejafor. Anything less is infradig

With Buhari its hard to tell considering himself is a muslim fanatic. He probably would have created a ministry for Boko Haram. So either way Nigeria at this moment in history is fu kced.

Re: "Would Buhari Have Tackled Boko Haram More Effectively?"

Yes.  Buhari would be eminently better!  Poor Jonathan is a puppet on a string.  There's no crystal ball to accurately predict outcome of events, but it is very safe to say that, a man in control like Buhari would be able to get the respect of those he leads, make decisons and be able to stick by them.  Poor Goodluck has to check with OBJ before, and Hilary Clinton after, he makes a "decision."

There would never have been Boko Haram if Buhari had been elected.

The only reason why there is a Boko Haram menace is because we have a Southern Christian president.

Boko Haram started during the rule of a Hausa Moslem.

At Topic,

Given the way he dealt with Maitsaisane sect I have no doubt he would have curbed the Boko Haram ppl

dayokanu:

Boko Haram started during the rule of a Hausa Moslem.

If you think this is the same group that Yar'Adua faced, then you really do not understand the problem.

EzeUche:

If you think this is the same group that Yar'Adua faced, then you really do not understand the problem.

Educate us sir

kokoA:

Educate us sir

The group has morphed into something else. Yar'Adua faced an enemy that had a fixed location. That is why it was so easy to kill their leader.

This new Boko Haram does not have a fixed location, but has different cells just like Al-Qaeda. This is a much more dangerous foe.

We do not even know if it is the same group, but another that uses the same name.

EzeUche:

The group has morphed into something else. Yar'Adua faced an enemy that had a fixed location. That is why it was so easy to kill their leader.

This new Boko Haram does not have a fixed location, but has different cells just like Al-Qaeda. This is a much more dangerous foe.

We do not even know if it is the same group, but another that uses the same name.

What was their fixed location during Yar Adua?

When Boko Haram attacked from Yobe, Borno, bauchi and Gombe during his regime

Yar Adua battled his own terror in Boko Haram now Jonathan is claiming this one is bigger than him. What a shame, What a sorry excuse for a president

Your citizens who voted you are being killed where is the decisiveness? When 9-11 happened we could all feel the anger in Bush and the determination to do something

When MEND thugs attacked Nigerian soldiers in Odi we could see the decisiveness from OBJ,
When Maitsaisane attacked during Buhari we all saw swift action
but during the regime of Retardeen we all see is excuses How he is helpless, How we have to endure it till Boko gets tired

And those that think this is a Northern problem you are mistakened, a Catholic church was attacked, You know that its mainly Easterners that are predominantly Catholics.

This is a huge problem, time to take decisive action and not like Retardeen advised, wait for Boko to get tired

I bet all those associating Buhari with this Boko Haram nonsense should have done a great job by googling the deadly Maitatseni sect of the early 80's and how Buhari put an end to it. Though, i was very small when the battle was won, but i was told by those involved.

So, if Buhari has done it before, why not now? Apart political sentiments, ethnic alignment and religion brouhaha, GEJ is never capable of handling even a mere state, talkless of a nation. why do you think GEJ cant even visit his state, even as the sitting president?

The guy left Bayelsa worst than ever, so shall it be the fate of Nigeria(i wish am wrong). Tackling such uprising requires srtong political will, sincerity and courage, from a strong leader, most especially when dealing with stone-aged wild animals.

No prayer without planning, followed by actions can ever solve this menace that is posing a threat and danger to innocent lives. Nuff said.

The Bokoharam during Umoru is thesame Bokoharam now. While yaradua had the guts to smoke them out GEJ is afraid for some reasons I don't understand.

dayokanu:

What was their fixed location during Yar Adua?

When Boko Haram attacked from Yobe, Borno, bauchi and Gombe during his regime

Yar Adua battled his own terror in Boko Haram now Jonathan is claiming this one is bigger than him. What a shame, What a sorry excuse for a president

Your citizens who voted  you are being killed where is the decisiveness? When 9-11 happened we could all feel the anger in Bush and the determination to do something

[b]When MEND thugs attacked Nigerian soldiers in Odi we could see the decisiveness from OBJ,
[/b]When Maitsaisane attacked during Buhari we all saw swift action
but during the regime of Retardeen we all see is excuses How he is helpless, How we have to endure it till Boko gets tired

And those that think this is a Northern problem you are mistakened, a Catholic church was attacked, You know that its mainly Easterners that are predominantly Catholics.

This is a huge problem, time to take decisive action and not like Retardeen advised, wait for Boko to get tired

I hope every Niger Deltan reads your Odi comment.

Your post was ok, until you justified the destruction and rape of Odi.

Beaf is right to refer Northerners as parasites.

They add nothing of value to Nigeria.

And you all are begging for a Northerner to be a leader. A parasite to be a leader?

I take 100 Goodluck Jonathans over any parasitic Northern leader.

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very unintelligent post

kokoA:

^^^^^
very unintelligent post

Who are you again? 

If you can prove otherwise that the North adds anything then do so.

But if you can't then I advise you not to utter a word.

EzeUche:

I hope every Niger Deltan reads your Odi comment.

Your post was ok, until you justified the destruction and violation of Odi.

So we shouldnt denounce criminal acts because they were done by in Odi?

In case you dont know about Odi read up

In early November a group of lawless elements who had taken refuge in the area was reported to have abducted six policemen. It was later reported that despite the intervention of social movements in the Niger Delta and elsewhere in the country and Bayelsa State government officials, the law officers were killed by the hoodlums. This was then followed by President Obasanjo issuing a 14-day ultimatum to the government of Bayelsa State to produce the miscreants, or he Obasanjo will proclaim a state of emergency.
http://www.nigerdeltacongress.com/oarticles/Odi%20massacre.htm

[size=18pt]Chilling description of the killing of Soldiers and Policemen by Niger Delta thugs[/size]

As  they fled, the hoodlums encountered  some soldiers along Harbour road, Yenagoa.  The unsuspecting military men were  mowed down. Life seemed to return to normal  after that bloody clash in Yenagoa.  However, two months after, CSP Jokotola, a  Yoruba 'with heavy facial tribal marks'  from Ipetumodu in Ife North Local  Government Area surfaced in Odi, with  six other policemen, on 'special duty.' The  hoodlums who had retreated to that  town, pounced on him and his colleagues.  Their corpses were discovered days  after.
http://www.waado.org/environment/fedgovt_nigerdelta/bayelsainvasion/FederalGovernInvadesBayelsa/MilitaryInOdi/MilitaryMassacres.html

[size=18pt]Below was what the governor of bayelsa State had to say[/size]

Bayelsa State Government has denied that the deployment of soldiers to the crisis-torn Odi community in the state was an indication that a state of emergency would soon be proclaimed in the town.

It said that the move was meant to flush out criminal elements who had in recent times kidnapped and in some instances killed policemen and their security agents.

Chief press secretary to the governor Mr. Norman Morris, who explained the situation yesterday in an interview with Daily Champion, said that activities of these elements were portraying the state in bad light, "hence the need to get rid of the criminals.

http://www.waado.org/environment/fedgovt_nigerdelta/bayelsainvasion/FederalGovernInvadesBayelsa/GovernorSupportsObasanjo.html

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Thanks bruv!

In addition, those trying to polorize the issue of leadership by injecting ethnic dimension. . .

Who want a northern leader? NOT me!!

I always canvass for strong and commited leader without putting much emphasis to his ethnic orientation e.g Fashola or Rochas or Gen. Buhari.

Give me a 0,1% of Ameachi than a billion GEJ's. Having said that, GEJ needs to understand that he is in charge, agreed OBJ foist Yar Adua/Goodluck on reetarded Nigerians, but we all witness how Yar Adua did a wonderful job by breaking away from OBJ admist of his severe health condition.

So, why cant GEJ be an independent president for a second? What would take GEJ to announce state of emergency in Yobe,Borno and Bauchi? These are the short term measures, while the intelligent community goes underground to sniff out the Boko dogs from their hide outs in the long run and final measure.


We cant continue to do thesame thing over and over and be expecting different results.

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They won't listen to you. Their ears have been blocked wit stupid religious and ethnic sentiments. Its so easy for them to shout "Buhari is an extrimist!". Ask them to prove it and they start quoting rubish statements that can not be proven to have been made by the General. It is a pity.!

@topic, the debate about whether Buhari would have done a better job is a needless distraction, IMO.

The fact is, he IS NOT THE FKING PRESIDENT!! GEJ IS.

EzeUche:

There would never have been Boko Haram if Buhari had been elected.

The only reason why there is a Boko Haram menace is because we have a Southern Christian president.

You heard the man.   The denials and expressions of shock coming from Ayatollah Buhari, over the grisly fate of his terror bomb capaign victims, fools nobody. 

Muhammadu Buhari is without question the Al Queda African franchise link-man, and the primary sponsor of Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist group.

Following his public threats to unleash violence if he was AGAIN trounced in Nigeria's most recent presidential elections, Ayatollah Buhari organized the gruesome spillage of southern Christian blood rivers in the north, deliberately to encourage reprisal massacres of northern Nigerians resident in the south, escalating towards civil war or a military coup pre-packaged to install as president an Islamic fundamentalist soldier of northern Hausa/Fulani stock, with sworn allegiance to the terrorist suicide bomber recruitment facilitator himself - Ayatollah Mohammadu Buhari.

This lifetime election LOSER turned terror bombing campaign mastermind, Ayatollah Momodu Buhari Bin Laden, is SCREAMING to be put out of his misery, even as he gleefully feasts on the blood of innocents during the Christmas 2011 season of peace and goodwill to all.

This is bad thread.

May be the General would have use his tribal connection.

If we want to be a (one) country, a fragile young woman should be able to be a president of the country and be supported by all to succeed.

@Ezeuche

The north contributes agriculturally to the nation, oya spin another one about the north being a parasite. Jonathan can not do anything because he is spine less, how can you compare a common fisherman to a General who fought in wars and has fought extremism before.

Without any questions, Buhari would have handled things in Nigeria more effectively because his record shows that he is the only leader that has what is missing in this country for many years.
SELF DISCIPLINE

Buhari wouldn't have been intimidated by anyone, he would have established the missing puzzle within the first 6 months in power. But Nigerians mostly went out to cast their votes based on candidates' magical names. It's too bad that Goodluck is now turning into Badluck by minute.
I see no hope in Goodluck Jonathan.

Sorry.

There would never have been Boko Haram if Buhari had been elected.

The only reason why there is a Boko Haram menace is because we have a Southern Christian president.

That is the point. So, there wouldn't have been any basis for this topic.

If he knows how to settle the problem it's his responsibility like everybody else, to contribute to way out of the problem.

Boko thing is new kind of challenge in the world.

Buhari is saddest thing to happen to Nigeria presently.
Buhari is evil.

Buhari couldnt tell his supporters to stop killing corpers posted in his region. he kept quiet for months and allowed people slaughtered by his supporters.
Shame on Buhari.
He's a devil.

There would never have been Boko Haram if Buhari had been elected.

The only reason why there is a Boko Haram menace is because we have a Southern Christian president.

you were obviously born just two years ago. Were you just a little older, you would have known Boko Haram actually started its campaign while a Muslim Northerner was on the saddle.

I don't know the people that can be President of this country, but of course, I know those who cannot be such as: Buhari,Babangida,Atiku,Gusau etc. Whether they like it or not GEJ will rule till 2015 and hand it over to an Ibo President, a Christian again. The so-called BH will cry for nothing sake. Buhari wouldn't have done better.

The group has morphed into something else. Yar'Adua faced an enemy that had a fixed location. That is why it was so easy to kill their leader.

This new Boko Haram does not have a fixed location, but has different cells just like Al-Qaeda. This is a much more dangerous foe.

We do not even know if it is the same group, but another that uses the same name.

@ezeuche,
failures like you and your president will have fixed reasons to give for their fixed failures.
you can as well tell nigerians that the cabal ur president keeps mentioning as the ones benefiting from fuel subsidy have no fixed locations.
tell your foolish listeners that N1b is a fixed sum of money for a fixed president and vice in a country millions are dying of hunger.
yes, our roads that have turned into death traps also lack fixed locations and as such fixing them is a big problem to ur president.
what do u expect when the first bomb exploded on 1st oct and your president went as far as arresting chief raymond dokpesi and forced him to join his camp or face terrorist charges. is that not a shame at the highest order?
i watched your jonathan took his oath of office swearing to protect our lives and properties but i never heard him say, he will only tackle problems with fixed locations. mr. fixed location, whatever we support as a pupil will surely come back to us.
if you believe that jonathan shld continue sleeping while boko haram kill us one after the other and u call it fixed location problem, be ready because you surely will be infected or affected at the end of the day.
have asked yourself, what if these boko haram kills jonathan wife or children? will our president give this same attitude to it?

if you know anything about war against indecipline, bribery and corruption under Buhari, u will answer the thread questions without thinking.