₦airaland Forum

edicolove:
Edo state guvnor launched one man one vote campaign and his party ACN leaders,Tinubu,Fashola,Bisi Akande et al got to Benin airport b4 going back to Lagos because Babangida was in Benin also for the campaign. Now,Bisi Akande,"Supercop corruption fighter" Ribadu and his running mate went to Niger and visits Babangida cap in hand to get his endorsement. Some people think we r fools or have a strong case of amnesia.

And what difference is there between this act by Ribadu and your benefactor GEJ. Afterall it's on record that GEJ called IBB his father, mentor and adviser. If you live in a glass house, you should be wise enough not to throw stones. Unfortunately for your likes, including your benefactor 'clueless' GEJ, wisdom is an attribute which you all lack.

The change we seek has come to the people!
[size=80pt][center]Sai Buhari[/center][/size]

Gbawe:
You expect me to respond to every thread that regards the musing and opinions of an individual? Surely you are more intelligent than that. Mr. Abidemi Dairo (whoever he is) reckons that Ribadu has "lost the little edge that he has" and we are expected to add that to a section of the Bible as Gospel truth? Dude there are millions of us Nigerians . We all have our opinions. Mr. Dairo may speak of Ribadu scathingly but Wole Soyinka, Femi Falana, Rotimi Akeredolu et al have all spoken of Ribadu in glowing terms and endorsed his candidacy publicly so I really don't see why the words of this Mr. Dairo now constitute the truth while we should disregard the utterances , about Ribadu , from many respected Nigerians who have 'walked the walk'. Mr. Dairo should be free to air his opinion and readers are also free to take it how they want without anybody trying to force folks to accept opinions as empirical truth.

At the end of the day folks can waste their time copying and pasting these 'opinions' of anonymous Nigerians. It is the same as some will copy our opinions on Nairaland to go and use elsewhere. We all have opinions and are entitled to them suffice to say , after all is said and done,  folks should go and vote because the time is here. Elections are upon us already. Saturday (only three days away) we will be voting for our law makers. That is the business at hand now.

There you go again. What makes you think the words of the likes of Soyinka, Falana and Akeredolu are sacrosanct. These individuals may not be able to deliver more than their personal votes for Ribadu, just as Mr Dairo may not be able to sway votes away from Ribadu apart from his personal vote.

Mr Dairo gave an opinion just as those you listed gave theirs too. I'm sure Nigerians are smart enough to know what every candidate stand for, so keep your sweat and pray your candidate does not keep emulating GEJ in misteps and gaffes.

Another dumb attempt by the Niboro of NL aka Beaf.
Abeg try another line as this one has turned out to be dead on arrival.

@Seun,
Apparently the desired effect for plagiarizing this thread and posting it under a curious heading has not been achieved. You have simply used this thread to win more support for the Buhari/Bakare team. I will assume the original comments you made were just out of concern for the need for Nigerians to vote out PDP come April 9, 2011. If the comment was just a mere innocent not well thought out statement, ignoring the IBB & OBJ link, you are pardoned. If however, those comments were indeed meant to whipe up sentiments against the Buhari/Bakare team, then I would conclude that it's unfortunate that you could stoop that low.

In any case, I (and many other NLers) will consider this as an innocent slip of thought and just ignore the comments.


To all BB fans, Buhari has once again proved to the world why the masses stand by/with him. He has come out of this unfortunate episode with his integrity intact and head held high!

[center][size=50pt]Vote Buhari/Bakare 2011[/size] _{for a better tomorrow!}[/center]

@Seun, I saw your comments earlier today and I think it was totally uncalled for. You forgot to mention the string attached to the Okonjo Iweala candidacy.

zeeleso:
Got it from their campaign team, Mr scammer detector. Contact any of them via their site  www.Buhari4Change.com to confirm.

NB: I wonder how much one can get together from such a scam that would make me go through all that unnecessary stress just for a few naira. Though times are tough in naija, money is definitely not one of my problems. Besides I expect it would be quite easy to be nabbed  through such formal means,  so just in case you dont believe me, do all future 'supposed victims' a favour and report the link to Buhari's official website above or even to etisalat so they can arrest me.

Abeg make you no vex o! You would probably have saved yourself the headache by simply directing people to the appropriate link on the BB campaign website.

[size=20pt]For all the Nigerian progressives who wish our nation to move forward, kindly make your widows might contribution to the BB campaign train through the link below:[/size]

http://buhari4change.com/?page_id=1038

edicolove:
And just to add, anyone talking about PDP being bad doesnt know what he is talking about. PDP has produced some of the finest governors n the country including, Donald Duke, Rotimi Amaechi, Godswill Akpabio and others. . . . . . .

EVEN OBJ completely reduced our national debt to Zero. unfortunately, another mallam has brought back the debt. and you want to vote a mallam in again? and please dont let me start with parties like ACN. A party that just hand picked candidates and tried to justify it and they where the ones accusing PDP for years of being undemocratic and having God-fatherism . talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

GEJ has shown ten times more maturity than Buhari who acts like a spoilt child and whines at everything. . . . .

It seems you forgot to mention GEJ's name amongst the so called performing governors from the PDP. Abi GEJ no attain the status of a state governor again?

Yes OBJ reduced our National debt, but GEJ has now led us back into the league of "onigbese" (debtor) countries.
"Another mallam has brought back the debt"? Are you kidding me? How much was the debt value of Nigeria when UMYA passed and how much is it today? Even in your hysteria, delusion and frustration the several lies you tainted you myopic post with are not as obvious as this one.
Haba! Must you tell lies to support tour skewed reasoning? Abegi go siddon!

10cirenoh:
@muami & edicolove

You guys can't make a good thing turn bad, it's not possible, you can try but you won't succeed, we all know Buhari and no matter how many lies you cook up, it just won't work, ask beaf.

THank you o my brother. Apparently Beaf was doing a pretty bad job and the GEJ camp have just managed to assign another set of dummies to NL. We have gone through this cycle before and Nigerians are more determined, more than ever before, to chase GEJ back to his village in the creeks of ND.

Lagosboy:
Can someone put the GTB account number here in bold please. I cant seem to find it on the Buhari4change webpage

Click the link below to access the web page on the GTBank account details.

[url=http://buhari4change.com/?page_id=1038[/b]]http://buhari4change.com/?page_id=1038[/url]

seal777:
I pasted the first set of BB postes in my area with 5members of my family 2friends and 3GEJ supportes of Ibo extraction converted, no stoping me.
I DROPPED MY NAME,PHONE NO AND POLLING CODE FOR LOGISTIC ASSISTANCE ON THE SITE,NO RESPONSE YET.seal4all@yahoo.com. ITIRE,SURULERE,LAGOR

Great job. Please keep it up.

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=611008.msg8013098#msg8013098 date=1301433062]Good job, Thanks for the info.

If your guys eventually get the DSTV promo arranged and they need support, leave me a message here. I think it will be effective.[/quote]I spoke with a friend last night who happens to know a few of the inner circle members of the BB campaign team and discussed this DSTV issue with him. In fact the guy alone can fund the advert, but he told me that the main concern of the BB campaign team is to raise funds for the election day logistics.

Discussing with Jarus, the DSTV advert will cost roughly 1.8M to execute 3 jingles of 30 seconds apiece on 4 football matches. CUrrently I can raise 100-150K but I may have to pay the sum into the GTBank account of the team to fund the logistics requirements.

Can anyone confirm if NTA is now airing the BB jingles?

Chrisbenogor:
Guys sheath the swords, no one is a saint they have all made blunders although I am still trying to wrap my head around Ribadu and Ibb. I would gladly take the ACN way way way above the pdp. Lets see how it plays out, pataki - gbawe take it easy.

Thanks man for attempting to pacify the warring factions.
Personally I will take a Buhari over hundreds of Ribadus 'cos of the inconsistencies of the retired police officer. However, if the contest were to be between a Ribadu and a Jonathan, I will grudgingly support Ribadu as he is at least better than 10 GEJ's put together.

Jarus:
The passion with which Nigerians are working for the BB ticket, funding their activities from their pockets, is really touching.

Somebody I didn't know sent me 400 mtn from Kaduna in the afternoon as her contribution to the BB dream. To think this person is unemployed. She said she saw my no from NL and she wanted me to use the recharge card to send sms to people on BB.How many Nigerian politicians can an unemployed graduate spend from her practically strait purse for?

My man, I'm overwhelmed too o! I spoke with a friend last nite and the news I got from him were heart warming. More gist later as soon as I can find time to call you.

GenBuhari:
@9ijaMan
It is not descending to level of Beaf, as I do not spread lies , I have also stopped making assumptions, that because a Nigerian newspaper prints a story, that the story is true , I argue with pure credible evidence and facts.

That's fine. I also agree with you that such claims by newspapers may be false. After all it was the same news papers which spread the lies about Buhari wanting to Islamize Nigerians. Today we all know that the reporter who published the story was not even at the venue of the book lunch and neither does the so called reporter speak nor understand Hausa language.

@muami & edicolove,
Are you guys done with your misguided and warped reasoning? If you two are anywhere half as intelligent as a primary school kid, you'd have taken you time to read more intelligent posts where all these baseless beer parlor rumors and accusations about Buhari have been thoroughly dealt with.
If Buhari was a weakling to have allowed Idiagbon to steal the show, does that not tell you the kind of a leader he is? A good leader is not the one who does all the job, but the one who allows his subordinates the free hand necessary for them to perform the jobs effectively. A good leader leads and directs his subordinates towards achieving his dreams and aspirations.
BTW, the last time I checked Idiagbon was not with Buhari during the latter's days as head of PTF.

Let's just agree to your false claim that PTF's projects were lopsided (an allegation which remains unproven to date) during Buhari's 4 years as head of the organization, abeg make una show us the lopsided project wey GEJ and PDP have executed in their 12 years in power.

Writing long epistles filled with lies and half-truths is not in anyway synonymous to high level of intelligence, but can be easily likened to a blabbing individual who is bereft of any idea on the issues he attempts to discuss.

GenBuhari:
@9ijaMan,
Please post the link on the website.

See link below:

[url=http://buhari4change.com/?page_id=1038[/b]]http://buhari4change.com/?page_id=1038[/url]

You can make donations through text messages to those numbers or a direct funds transfer into the GTBank account given.

GenBuhari:
@9ijaMan,
Do not forget that nobody has provided any evidence that  Buhari actually said that Abacher was not a looter

I am still keeping an open mind on whether Abacha looted and waiting for links that would prove to me beyond doubt that it ws not OBJ's propaganda. OBJ being the greatest looter in African history

Chief, let's not argue along that line. If I were discussing with the likes of Beaf and Nsiman, I may want to descend that low to their level. Let's just assume for argument's sake that Buhari made such a statement, which I have admitted may not be the best way for Buhari to assess Abacha. The fact still remains that he's by far more credible than all the Ribadus of this world put together. Gbawe has shown he's more intelligent than the likes of jmaine, as his (Gbawe's) posts though tainted with the exuberance of a regular Ribadu supporter has been more objective than sentimental. 

The major snag in Gabwe's line of thought is that he has constantly misconstrued the consistent support Buhari enjoys amongst most NLers on the politics section to raising Buhari to the level of sainthood.

@Gbawe,
I read a post you made earlier about Buhari being out of touch for over 2 decades. You know that's certainly not true. Buhari left PTF in 1999, the last time Nigerians saw any meaningful infrastructural development in any part of the nation. 12 years is not the same as 2 decades!

jmaine:
Shakes head for his stvpidity of trying to defend the indefensible and moves on . . . it's a fact now that . . Pro Buhari fanatics are the biggest threat to our democracy. . why should i waste my time on that poo theory you want to defend. you are just a disgrace my friend and it is a shame.

You can hate Abacha for all I care, but that still will not take away the fact that there were some positives in his regime. My simple question to people with warped reasoning is very simple:
Comparing Abacha's tyrannical 5 years rule with PDP's 12 years of misrule, which of these two regimes provided Nigerians with more social and infrastructural amenities? If you can honestly answer the question, then I'll know you still have some elements of sanity left in you. Otherwise it'll be very easy for any sane mind to conclude that you were probably a child when Abacha ruled Nigeria and all these venom you are spewing about Buhari were just figments of your imagination. Supporting Buhari has nothing to do with fanaticism, it's just so unfortunate that we find ourselves as a nation with these hard choices we have to make. Buhari stand head and shoulders above every other candidate in the pack, no matter the yard stick with which you want to assess them.

Gbawe:
GenBuhari is from Mars so we can excuse his attempts at re-writing history.

Every individual can be passionate about his support for a particular candidate. However when objectivity is thrown out of a debate, the whole discussion loses the value inherent. The only issue you keep harping on about Buhari is the comment he made about Abacha and I have agreed with you that he's human after all and certainly not a saint. However, like those before me, we all know that Buhari takes stands on issues and never waivers. If we want to just base our judgement of these candidates simply the on comments they made on issues bordering corruption, you certainly cannot argue that Ribadu has not made many more of such comments which he has been struggling to retract.

We can compare the records of both candidates and come up with the positives and negatives and I still believe Buhari will trum Ribadu in virtually every aspect you would want to consider. If there were no Buhari in the race today, I will surely settle for the second best candidate, in terms of the odds of defeating the GEJ led PDP.

jmaine:
@ Gbawe and the rest . . . we all at Nairaland play sectional politics, cos am sure you are defending your corner cos it's your opponent but i like your stand, you are not overtly blind and fanatical to your cause. But what i find extremely amusing is the penchant of the Pro Buhari to label any contradicting view of being anti democratic or PRO GEJ (cheapest cover). For 9ijaman to say that Nigerians were better off during Abacha regime is absolutely shameful and disgusting. How can a Nigerian who touts a progressive stance utter such rubbish. This is the height of someone trying to defend Buhari by praising Abacha . . So if Abacha was a life president and Buhari was still handling the PTDF chest. we should all be smiling to the[b] Ghadaffi of Nigeria[/b] .Damn

Please let's be sincere and open AND Truthful when we speak.

It's either you cannot properly comprehend a few words and sentences in English or you've deliberately decided to be mischievous. The answer to your skewed reasoning is given below:

Lagosboy:
But you could disprove him by telling us how many roads were constructed on the federal level in 5 years of Abacha and 12 years of PDP. He made mention of infrasrtucture, we are not talking of freedom of press or anything like that here.

Fellow progressive Nigerians, the info reaching me is that the BB team needs funds for logistics on the election day. Kindly make your widow's might donation into the GTBank account posted on the buhari4change campaign web site.

Reading through this long speech given by Buhari gives me hope that Nigeria will indeed rise again and take her place amongst the graet nations of the world.

somze:
One of the problems with your comment is we have no supporting facts to verify it. However, I can take them because it seems to be a first hand account. Also I think you miss the point here because the allegation wasn't that no projects were carried out in the South through out Buhari's 5 year reign but that it was heavily lopsided to the North.

Nevertheless, the only way to put this beyond reasonable doubt is if we actually see the details of all the projects carried out by PTF. That however is unavailable to the public until the FOI bill is signed and implemented.

Chief all you need do to verify if those projects were indeed executed by PTF is t simply go to the institution mentioned. I graduated from that school and I know that those were PTF's projects. EVeryone else from any other institution can come up with their own lists too.

As long as no data is available to compare the total funds allocation and projects executed by the Buhari led PTF, all those accusing Buhari of lopsidedness have no basis. The hard facts on ground does not support such notions.

efisher:
9ijaMan,

Some posters on this thread have made people assume that they just refused to air the jingle unreasonably. Some other posters suggested the jingle may have flouted some regulations set by the regulatory body (Not by NTA). The latter seems to be more correct. People were already castigating PDP for that when it may have been CPC's own fault! Why should we blame PDP for CPC's failure to adhere to the regulations? It is not bad for me to point out the current position of things so that people can get a balanced view of the whole situation.

Lets be fair!

You are actually not being fair. All the reports in the papers said that NTA refused to air the CPC jingles because some parts of the jingles critiqued the GEJ led PDP government. When has criticizing government become a crime if what you are criticizing the government for are very obvious, even to the blind. NTA simply played to the PDP gallery, no one wants to get sacked since they are all being paid by the same government CPC is criticizing. If you want to be fair, you ought to be be objective and truthful.

nulldev:
I think you are overreaching with this Abacha connection. As someone who's close friend lost their father to the Abacha goon squad [/b]i find it borderline insultive that anyone will try and put a positive spin on those dark days to score internet points. Now Buhari wants to reap the benefits of a democratic system he had no hand in building but conveniently looked the other way while he's good chum went about maiming the real heroes of democracy? Buhari's claim to fame is heading a fascist government and being in charge of the ptf.
I also find it ironic that you mention Marwa, a man electioneering with 'looted Lagos state funds' as someone Buhari will endorse, next thing you will claim Marwa did not loot or the money he had to return to the Government was for philantrophic reasons.

[b]CPC is Buharis party, was he asleep at the switch when Abacha joined or he just wanted him to donate to he's campaign and then go siddon look.

While it is understandable to reference your friend's misfortune, you should also not forget that millions of Nigerian lives were saved by the intervention of PTF in various teaching hospitals across the nation. Was Abacha a tyrant? YES
Did Abacha's regime provide more infrastructures to Nigerians in his 5 years of terror reign when compared to PDP's 12 years reaign? The answer here is an emphatic YES. If you say no to the latter questions, then you sure are not being truthful. The common man on the street enjoyed better infrastructural amenities in Abacha's time compared with the 12 years of PDP's misrule. This is a fact you cannot dispute.

On Marwa, how many of your likes accused him of looting Lagos dry when he was Governor of the state. Most comments emanating from Lagos back in 1999 was that Marwa had set the pace and Tinubu would have no choice but to perform. Meanwhile, I cited Marwa's case to put to lie Gbawe's claim that Buhari endorsed Mohammed Abacha.
On the bold comment, you are simply being mischievous withe the truth. CPC is a party, yes founded by Buhari to actualize his aspiration to lead Nigeria again. I cannot recall what part of the Nigerian constitution states that any iindividual can be denied the right of association by party leaders. Mohammed Abacha joined CPC after leaving PDP and Buhari certainly has no right to deny Abacha the right to join the party. The bone of contention is that Buhari has never endorsed Mohammed Abacha.

I'm very much certain that people like you would be the first to critisize Buhari if he had made any attempt at stopping Abacha Mohammed from joining CPC.

fizokey:
It will be pertinent to note that some people expect ''overnight miracles'' to the problems with Nigeria within a short period of time an individual ascends to the nation's highest office. The truth be told, Nigeria's pool of plaguing problems will require not less than a decade to at least get things 85 percent right. As a dual citizen i have taken time to analyze our woes on both local and international basis and arrived at a firm conclusion to believe in the 'Nigeria project'. Going back home on the 9th of April i will vote and right i must. I will vote GEJ

So in your lonely planet 12 years is equivalent to "overnight miracles"! I won't blame you though since you are likely to be a product of the rot in the education system managed by PDP for 12 years, you sure would have lost your sense of reasoning over time.

osoisi:
You cant convince Nigeria that BON isnt credible because your candidate didnt come

Sorry pal, I need not do any convincing, it's very much obvious the media chat aint credible. However it is certainly not my problem if you fail to discern between a BON organized debate and BON as a body. Let me come down a bit to your level of understanding. Here it is: BON may be a credible organization, but BON failed to organize a credible debate. BON and a BON organized debate are two separate and distinct entities.

efisher:
The amount of propaganda on this forum is becoming too much. [size=14pt]I just watched NTA and I saw CPC campaign jingle live[/size]. Watch NTA yourself and stop the falsehood. For those who need to watch online, you can use this link: http://suncastv.ae/watch-now/nta-live-streaming. Watch for some time and the jingle will come up based on how much airtime they paid for.

So if NTA had originally rejected the jingle, got several knocks from Nigerians and subsequently accepted to run the advert, the orignal denial which was widely reported now becomes falsehood? Abeg think again.

osoisi:
I am confused here. Are u saying it is credible or it isnt.
Is it that he attended alone that is your issue.

In layman's term, the BON debate has no credibility. If Sambo has attended alone and has been asked questions which have obviously been prepared specially for him before hand, then the BON, though with an assumed wider coverage, so called debate is simply not credible.

osoisi:
Advice 1: First read the thread and then comment on my comment. Dont just jump in. I was replying those who questioned the credibility of the BON debate.
Advice 2: If you read what ACN, CPC and ANPP jointly signed regarding the BOn debate you will understand that the credibility of the debate was what was in question.
Over to you. Your points was what again

The credibility of a debate has little or nothing to do with the coverage. Sambo attending the debate alone and reading the comments on this thread about the questions he was asked actually proved that the debate media chat was not credible. In a nut shell the small NN24 was able to organize a much more credible debate compared to the waste of time and resources organized by BON.

efisher:
danjohn & aletheia,

Check out this article on tribune website: http://tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/politics-analysis/3644-as-elections-commence-the-contenders-the-pretenders.html

It may give you an insight into which parties really exist on ground in the key states. Enjoy

Tribune and Thisday are not known to be be objective in their reporting. How many anti Akala articles have you read on Tribune in the last 4 years? Interestingly, you'll find more articles in Tribune criticizing Fashola than those (if any) critiquing Akala's administration. Any sane person knows that Akala is perhaps the worst governor in Nigeria today. I'd take articles emanating from the Nigerian Tribunes and Thisdays of this world with a pinch of salt.

boy t:
His endorsement would not make any sense though, because Buhari or RIBADU  will Never SUCCEED in 2011 its time  for a SOUTHERN candidate .
Mallams have failed the nation. shine your Eyes!!!
All Diasporas are urging their families in Nigeria to make this change possible in 2011.  Say YES to  GEJ.!!!!

Let us balance POWER.

How far do you think ethno-religious bigotry will take you?
Abeg go sidon!